The object of Deltacloud is to open up competition and choice in the cloud market, just as Red Hat Linux did in the hardware market, eliminating the switching cost of investing in a new stack of proprietary offerings and allowing cloud users to invest the savings into conducting application development that truly differentiates them.
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The company is considering switching to more cost-efficient 180-seater aircraft, replacing its 156-seater A319s.
Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.
Even where there is a choice, the cost of switching banks can be very high.
And the cost of switching from Google to a rival is very low.
No company will be able to justify the cost of switching to the Mac OS on the strength of Keynote alone.
Moreover, any users who abandoned Windows would have to scrap investments in software and training, making the cost of switching prohibitive.
The same is true for customers of oil service companies, though less so, as the cost of switching among oil service companies is smaller than that of cable services, and there are more choices.
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They then analyze how the remaining major cost components, switching and transmission for both types of networks and interconnecting with the switched circuit network for the IP-based networks, change with the change in technology.
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However, Orr does believe that rugged tablet makers will start switching from Windows to Android to remain cost-competitive, some doing that sooner than later.
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It will all be possible because of sophisticated networks, powerful computing, low cost bandwidth terrestrial integration, and seamless switching.
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Switching patients to generic Zocor may represent the biggest cost-saving opportunity in years.
Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
But in many future conflicts the military operation was likely to cost less than the aftermath: training police, switching the lights back on, building democracy and so forth.
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Switching properties for a week can be significantly cheaper than staying in a hotel, but home swaps bring other cost savings, too.
They are being carefully planned and managed to maximize efficiencies in our cost structure while preserving the investments in innovation in our core businesses of data center, routing, switching and security.
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