According to the British American Security Information Council (or BASIC), the cost of running and maintaining Trident is roughly £5bn a year.
The business of running and maintaining networks is becoming a significant source of revenue for the two companies.
The defense ministry of Germany has switched to open-source software, primarily to reduce reliance on outside parties for running and maintaining sensitive computer systems.
The Treasury and transport ministers are looking at slimming down Network Rail to its core work of running and maintaining the railways.
A portion of every Briton's electricity bill payment is given to their local power network to pay for the running and maintaining of cables in their area.
Brunei claims the vessels do not meet the required specifications, but BAE sources say there are no facilities at the local Muara naval base capable of running and maintaining such advanced ships.
In a condominium, in which each owner owns his apartment as real estate, the common charge covers the expenses of running and maintaining the building, but does not include property taxes, which are paid individually by unit owners.
"Ops teams want to focus on operations — not building, running and maintaining their log management platform".
The effort of the personnel at Bogazici University, Kandilli Observatory Earthquake Research Institute, in installing, running, and maintaining the Istanbul Earthquake Rapid Response System is also greatly appreciated.
The new services are designed to remove a significant amount of the complexity and reduce the time and cost associated with launching, running and maintaining cloud services.
