The idea is to finish a job in a shorter time as measured by an external clock, even if at the cost of more hardware and programming complexity.

其思想是按照外部时钟的步调在更短的时间内完成一项工作，即便要以更复杂的硬件和编程为代价也在所不惜。

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For example, the sales department is now able to add new users based on actual usage without increasing the complexity and cost of procuring new hardware, software, and administrative resources.

例如，销售部门现在可以根据实际使用量添加新用户，而不会增加复杂性和采购新硬件、软件和管理资源的成本。

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Hardware management complexity.

硬件管理的复杂性。

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But what if the open source community builds products that automate Big Data complexity on commodity hardware?

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The ensuing commodification of the hardware however endangers the traditional business model of networking vendors such as Juniper that have relied on hardware complexity to drive margins.

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Enterprises and service providers are demanding more programmability and therefore flatter networking architectures that decouple the software from the hardware so that it decreases physical complexity and allows networks to scale out through virtualization.

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