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Grid business benefits |
| Accelerate time to results: |
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can help improve productivity and collaboration |
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can help solve problems that were previously unsolvable |
| Enable collaboration and promote operational flexibility: |
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bring together not only IT resources but also people |
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allow widely dispersed departments and businesses to create virtual organizations to share data and resources |
| Efficiently scale to meet variable business demands: |
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create flexible, resilient operational infrastructures |
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address rapid fluctuations in customer demands|needs |
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instantaneously access compute and data resources to "sense and respond" to needs |
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can help give end users uninhibited access to the computing, data and storage resources they need (when they need them) |
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can help equip employees to move easily through product design phases, research projects and more — faster than ever |
| Leverage existing capital investments: |
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can help you improve optimal utilization of computing capabilities |
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can help you avoid common pitfalls of over-provisioning and incurring excess costs |
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can free IT organizations from the burden of administering disparate, non-integrated systems | |
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