Managing a storage system already costs five times as much as buying the system itself, whereas less than 20 years ago the cost of managing the system amounted to only a third of the total (see chart 5).What is more, many of today's IT systems are a patchwork that is inherently inefficient, so firms spend 70-90% of their IT budgets simply on keeping their systems running.
It turned out to be a patchwork project that was still not complete when Hurricane Katrina hit 20 years later, and many segments of the flood wall failed.
The seam that binds this emotional patchwork is female anger.
His return should only bolster the Knicks and boost the development of Lin, who has been fashioning victories with a patchwork lineup that was missing its two biggest stars.
But no such policy has emerged yet, and one result has been a patchwork of laws that is making the climate increasingly unwelcome for refugees, said Peer Baneke, general secretary of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, an umbrella group of refugee organizations.
If anything, it would have been a "patchwork" of states that were not taking bold steps to curb climate change.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's rules are a patchwork that needs to be reorganized and integrated into a new structure to improve safety, the agency's staff told the five members of the commission on Tuesday at a meeting.
Whatever the initial goal of the operation, by the time I arrived in Basra it was a patchwork of neighborhoods that were either deserted or overrun by Mahdi fighters.
What we believe will be harmful to Illinois' economy is a patchwork approach that could lead to potentially three different wages in the 28 suburban communities that border Chicago's outer 17 wards.
The most frustrating thing about the Republican Party's embrace of a patchwork of immigration laws is that it misses the broader problems facing local governments; our federal immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed, not by states but by Congress.
