On Feb. 18, a communication line malfunction disrupted the dissemination of last sale price data on Nasdaq for two hours.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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