It's a combination as tightly coupled as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: wherever economic growth leads, greenhouse gas emissions must follow.

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This was, more or less, a vertically integrated series of ecosystems around platforms and highly disciplined communities of vendors corralled by the tightly coupled relationship between Microsoft( MSFT) and Intel (INTC).

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Donatelli is right, inasmuch as big data centers and the cloud are creating worlds where networking, storage and servers are so tightly coupled as to be in some ways indistinguishable from each other.

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Namely, just how tightly are their business processes coupled to specific existing technologies?

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