The solar power industry, often refered to as photovoltaics, is being pinpointed as a quick growth industry where adoption has grown by 44% annually from 2001 - 2006. It is expected that by the year 2030 solar energy will produce 380 billion kilowatt-hours of energy a growth of 58,000% from 2007.
The widespread adoption of solar power as a primary source of energy for home owners is faced with many barriers, including:
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Traditional marketing has long focused on a method called the 4Ps: product, pricing, placement and promotion. With the move to an Internet economy marketers needed to make the shift to an online marketing strategy and a new set of fundamentals called the 4Ts: target, tactics, transact and track.
The 4Ts are designed to help bring your company’s marketing initiatives to the forefront of customers minds and win new business with new Internet marketing strategies.
In recent years Colleges and Universities have seen a substantial growth in the adoption of mobile computing devices among students and faculty. The emergence of these devices has transformed higher education campuses into an area where Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) could be utilized to foster a collaborative and open learning environment.
Wireless LANs implemented at higher education institutions offer a number of benefits including:
Researching for genetic sequences has come a long way in the past 25 years. There are large public databases that contain a wealth of information however they make up a fraction of the data when combined with proprietary databases, in-house databases, images, illustations, local hard drive data and print documents.
The lack of complete data can cost biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars a year in wasted resources on incomplete, out-of-date or unusable sequence data. This data can lead to:
Instant Messaging (IM) is a for of online instant communication between two or more parties that has been widely used in a social environment since the early 1990’s. This form of direct communication between individuals has evolved into a low cost way of electronic communication in the business environment. The implementation of business IM has been widely accepted with over the last five years usage has tripled to 63 million users. It is anticipated that in a few short years Instant Messaging will surpass email as the largest in-office electronic communication tool.
However, business Instant Messaging (IM) does come with it’s risks, including:
The ability for a manager to effectively manage team conflict is one of the most difficult traits to build and take time for new managers to develop. All conflict has its causes and symptoms and a number of tools that managers can use to deal health or unhealthy team conflict.
The a team conflict is when members of a team get into a disagreement on any number of issues involving a cooperative project. Conflict symptoms can be any number of the following:
As the average consumer become more technologically savy they demand more from the digital content creators (DCC) like video game designers and animators. The cutting edge and life-like graphics presented are created in processor intensive environments.
DCC requires the latest in processor performance to develop the realistic graphics consumers demand. A single-processor central processing unit (CPU) no longer delivers the power needed to render these graphics. A multi-processor workstation offers the best solution because it has advanced multithreading and multi-core processing.
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The ever evolving corporate IT environment has seen many major changes in the last few years. The expansion of the IT infrastructure in companies has become a significant benefit in creating an efficient and effective workforce. The reliability of these technology resources is always under constant threat of attack. In the past these attacks were often described as pranks, simple, visible and random. These attacks have however evolved with our technology and now financially driven, sophisticated, invisible and targeted.
The way that the Corporate IT systems are accessed have also changed. We are no longer in a dumb terminal environment. The methods in which a modern workforce accesses data include:
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The reliability of a Storage Area Network (SAN) can be compromised by any number of factors. SANs are composed of both mechanical and electronic parts doubling the chances for data loss or downtime through common issues like:
Automotive manufacturing companies have been struggling with a fundamental dilemma with their warranty systems for years - data management of claims processing and assessment. This issue has had major impacts on their business in areas like:
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