The same automation and control that gives organizations the ability to scale up or down using multiple servers when demand increases also allows them to migrate entire server deployments to a new infrastructure when disaster strikes.

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When the price of a financial asset rises, demand generally increases.

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Usually when a business sees a surge in customer demand, it increases production and expands to fill that demand, because that increased demand means more profits.

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When immigration increases, physical skills become more plentiful relative to demand, but language skills become more scarce.

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When that wind generation component increases, the temperatures of fossil-fueled boilers must be dropped to maintain demand-supply equality.

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These gains in productivity have been most pronounced during recessions, when manufacturers tend to lay off workers and then replace them with machines as the economy grows again and demand increases.

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