Gold producers are expected to report increases in quarter-over-quarter profits, given recent strength in the price of gold and continuing operational cost containment.
There is still a lot to be done in removing operational cost inside the data center: Now-separate elements like compute, storage and networking are increasingly intertwined, and may eventually be subsumed into a single basic operation where few programmers go.
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It will replace two single-role types providing both improved operational flexibility and cost savings.
Furthermore, investors have become hypersensitive about operational risk and cost matters to business processes and technology that could result in catastrophic loss.
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Product rationalization and operational efficiencies are helping cost control and margin expansion at Rovi.
This airplane has been looked at in over seven Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analyses since its inception.
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Corporate buyers, usually led by finance chiefs, viewed the products as a way to improve cost and operational efficiency so paid special attention to the RFP process.
"BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 brings some important technology, cost and operational improvements to existing BlackBerry customers, " said Nick McQuire, Research Director Mobile Enterprise Strategies EMEA for IDC.
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The participants assessed the need for the "Stealth" bomber for the future effectiveness of the American deterrent, considering in turn the technical, operational, policy, cost and arms control aspects of the B-2 program.
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The capital cost and operational details of the solar project are being handled by MMA Renewable Ventures , one of a small crop of firms that has sprung up to provide financing in the super-hot solar and renewable energy markets.
The study should evaluate requirements, performance benefits, design trade-offs, operational impacts, and refined cost estimates.
In those cases you gain the advantage of highly skilled technical and operational expertise at zero net cost.
But these pioneers also saw strong financial rewards from embracing social technologies: Cost reduction, operational efficiency, faster innovation through co-creation, and increased customer satisfaction.
However, this highlights an important byproduct of the cost cutting and operational efficiency driving strategic actions that so many companies have implemented since the start of the downturn job losses.
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The leading companies we are talking to in both the developed and emerging markets are working out how to balance the need of maintaining their current legacy businesses through cost reduction, operational excellence and customer retention with placing the right bets on this longer-term world of change and opportunity.
Aviva chairman Lord Sharman said Mr Moss had "reduced the cost base and improved operational performance" at the company.
In addition to a 70% dividend cut, Penn West has suffered operational and production snafus as well as cost-overruns.
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It is also saying that Boulder under-estimates operational expenses by improperly figuring both the cost of wind energy and integrating it onto the grid.
In a bid to maintain operational efficiency, the company is undertaking several cost cutting measures including a number of lay-offs.
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The NSR's shortcomings are considerable: a short sailing season, the cost of hiring icebreakers, the operational hazards of extreme northern waters and the environmental risks of oil spills, collisions or sinkings.
When used to process unclassified information, sharing cloud computing resources can nominally provide the operational advantages of a private cloud with a cost closer to that of a public cloud due to the expected economies of scale from combined user communities.
Airtel Vodafone now has an ideal environment to suit all its needs, enabling rapid low-cost integration of data stored in various operational surroundings.
"Made in America" advanced battery technology and electric military vehicles would reduce fuel demand and cost, afford tactical flexibility, and decrease operational risks.
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The main reason was the one-off impact of an accounting change, and the cost of implementing the firm's GLOBE operational efficiency and performance programme.
"There will, justifiably, be questions about the adequacy of management and emergency operational procedures on board which may have longer-term cost implications, " said Wyn Ellis, an analyst at Numis Securities.
The winning configuration presumably decided on the basis of cost would then begin the long process towards operational capability.
Still, it is cost savings, and over the longer term Google hopes the collaborative systems lower overall operational costs.
Once a new unit is built, the operational costs are nominal and over a 40-year time period, such facilities have proven to be cost effective.
For now, the cost burden of reshoring falls upon the private sector, with executives needing to compare upfront costs with operational efficiency, profitability and customer service yield.
GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port, device and file type control technologies while establishing a market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost.
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