While this decision is certainly tempered by the needs of the company, the scale up approach will help enterprises accurately prepare for their current Big Data needs by buying limited hardware and add more racks in a cost-effective manner as data needs increase.

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At the top of the scale, demand response (DR) systems allow multiple enterprises to manage their usage through a third-party provider to balance peak loads and let each participant optimize costs.

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In line with marketing strategies, the productive processes as such were carried out by small scale enterprises, whereby preference was given to the creation of employement opportunities for women.

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As with much of farming and food production, it is the large-scale industrial-commercial enterprises that draw more criticism than small family-run farms.

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For social enterprises to scale their delivery of essential goods and services to the poor, they need access to working capital, and they need fair wages.

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Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.

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