While lots of attention has been paid of late to the cloud that handy shared infrastructure residing in huge datacenters owned by Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and others little has been noted on the client end of things.
This means decoupling the back-end processing from the client, which allows the back-end processing to occur with minimal communications with the client.
For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.
These brothers have many accounts open under different names so no one can see who the end client is.
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There are third-party apps for feed-reading, but Google Reader remains both the dominant client and nearly the only back-end syncing service underpinning the entire RSS experience (a position the company actively pursued).
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Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner said in the end his client may have been his own worst enemy.
This particular firm worked on the billable hour model (the quality of your work or client satisfaction hardly mattered at the end of the month if you were light on hours).
Some observers believe the true impetus was that the Soviets demanded an end to the war before their Iraqi client, Saddam Hussein, was toppled.
"Sharing the workload across client and server offers automotive manufacturers and end-users the best of both worlds, " said Andy Gryc, automotive product marketing manager, QNX Software Systems.
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Independence encompasses the opportunity to build deeper client trust and personal connections by working only for the end-investor, not an employer.
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Most have chosen to provide back-end scheduling services that the client company deploys on its site.
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The end result is that the client paid 10% of the total purchase price for the 20% of the company that he needed.
"We take after-sale service very seriously and give the same attention to quality end results and client satisfaction as any service experience, " a spokeswoman wrote in an email.
Staying connected with customers, the press and Wall Street carries an implied threat with poor Salesforce performers: A bad run-in with a client might just end up in the big boss' in-box.
Six months of intensive work, endless cold calls to find clients, and a high all-or-nothing benchmark of client money to get under management by the end of the program.
Bishop did not receive confirmation from the client on January 4, 2011 and he did not cancel the trade at the end of the day.
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Goldman says he increase in both debt and equity underwriting mostly reflects an increase in client activity, and that its investment banking transaction backlog increased compared with the end of 2010.
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In FY 2012, the firm had approximately 615, 000 client employees, and we expect this number to grow to approximately 800, 000 by the end of our forecast period.
While building a new product line or pursuing client opportunities overseas may result in a larger business, it might not be, in the end, a more profitable or satisfying business for you.
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