The appeal to executive row at most corporations was obvious: millions saved on capital investment, an end to the hegemony of the corporate IT department, painless upgrades, and the ability to scale up and down as needed.
It will be unified, on x86 chips, able to scale up and down, in a private or a public setting.
As their individual temperatures scale up and down, they form a trinity, each becoming an aspect of the other's identity.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
And so on the platform and the infrastructure side, we are able to offer to customers the ability to provide the software in a much more standardized configuration, as well as resources to scale up and down on demand.
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Bruce whispers something to her, and she giggles all up and down the scale, like she used to when she was little and being tickled.
Without the heroine-centred, questlike focus of Mr Faulks's romantic narrative, Mr Binding is able to move freely among a variety of characters, up and down the social scale and across both sides, keeping his eyes on the actualities of power and collusion, and letting the grand implications speak for themselves.
Instead, many will switch to free alternatives such as Gnutella and its variants, which are less easy to scale up than Napster but are also harder to shut down and are getting easier to use.
With people moving up and down the income distribution scale, there would appear to be equality of opportunity, if not equality of outcome.
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The size of the mass market for personal computers gave Intel the resources needed to bulk that architecture up for servers and supercomputers, and scale it down for laptops.
In three years, Ebay stock has been up and down in on a very small scale compared to other companies such as Amazon.
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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They can add skills in response to market demands, adjust fees up or down, scale work to fit their life and income goals and are not reliant on the economies of a single employer for survival.
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The improved ability to scale infrastructure up or down to meet dynamically changing and new business needs increases business ability while shared IT infrastructure not only reduces hardware acquisition costs but also results in significant savings in IT staffing costs and data center space, power, and cooling.
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With limitless funds, it could snap up firms in each of its three businesses, driving down costs and using scale to fluster competitors.
"Whacky ideas such as... allowing pranks, introducing brain teasers and games to warm people up before a meeting are way down the scale in the UK, " the institute said.
"The amount of technology that goes into PCs is going up, and that tends to work against prices going down as fast as economies of scale are achieved, " says the IDC vice-president.
Rather than doing too little too late, as it has so far, Spain's government should quickly admit the scale of the problem, clean up the banks, preferably by removing bad assets, and shut down, or recapitalise, what is left.
This, on a scale of 60 trillionths of an inch wide, is where the chase is up and down the corridors of chromosomes, in among the proteins, at the cutting edge of enzymes and at the spot where the cut goes wrong.
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