Real-time data sets are required to make sense of the business model.

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Typically several days pass between sample collection and data release because of the time required to collect, transport and analyze the samples.

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At the meeting, member countries will also for the first time be required to submit data on poverty and land cover in areas impacted by desertification.

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Less time is required by applications to process data.

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The price of storage continues to decline significantly, up to 30-40 percent per year, making it more cost effective to add capacity than to spend the valuable time and effort required to find and delete data.

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The time required for the FDA to review the data on and approve a new drug--about 18 months--has been essentially unchanged for the past decade, while the duration of clinical testing (largely a function of FDA requirements) has gradually increased.

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This, plus the cost of required recovery time, determines what level of recovery is right for any particular data center.

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At the time of publication, only 87 of these public pension funds had provided the data required to undertake this analysis.

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