While it's hard to nail down what "cloud" means when it comes to technology companies' earnings because it varies so much in how each one counts infrastructure, software, or platform; the general trend from Oracle seems contrary to the eye-popping growth numbers we have seen from other companies.
I do know that they are counting the infrastructure after the earthquakes.
(Unless you count crumbling infrastructure, runaway debt, paralyzed government, or a trillion-dollar military bogged down in pointless faraway non-wars).
In a recent annual review, a team at the Department of Homeland Security that works to counter the threat of attacks on critical computer infrastructure counted 198 incidents in fiscal 2012.
"We are certainly counting on investors to provide infrastructure support, [advice] on hiring the right talent, getting access to more clients and help designing the overall business strategy," he said.
However, federal support has always been an important part of clean water infrastructure investment, and Illinois is counting on that support to implement these plans.
Our states, our cities, our drivers, our workers -- everyone is counting on us to fund our critical infrastructure over the long haul.
Across three meetings with the AWGs, Work Plans were developed which defined the projects that must be done to attain the minimum position in terms of ABF infrastructure in each workstream under the following headings: scope and data set coverage; classification; counting rules and unit of count; costing; funding model; support infrastructure; data quality assurance; and governance.
"We're going to be counting on him to go all in on issues like green infrastructure".
It would be a crime if, counting the bailout, a trillion dollars didn't deliver enduring and innovative infrastructure investment.
