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How does a ‘miner’ look like?
Butterfly Labs is one of the companies that sell ASIC-based Bitcoin miners, machines that compute SHA-256 very quickly. The smallest, ‘Jalapeño’, computes 5 GH/s which is about 5 billion hashes per second, its price being $274. The prices for larger ones (500 GH/s) can even go as high as $22, 484.
What are Bitcoins?
A topic that has been growing in popularity lately is ‘crypto-currencies’, the most common being Bitcoin.
In the last decades, the role played by performance measurement in helping organizations achieve and sustain their competitive advantage has been clearly established and acknowledged by management literature. During the ‘90s, some revolutionary changes such as technology fusion and proliferation, shortening of product life cycles and increased competition pushed managers towards the measurement and assessment of the R&D performance, even more than before.
When someone hears the word ‘fashion’, he or she automatically thinks of skinny models, catwalk, glamorous life, maybe eating disorders, shallowness or why not, money. But, as usual, there’s more here than meets the eye.
What people seem to forget is that in order to have a (successful) collection, some bullet points need to be ‘checked’. A lot of people are involved, from designers to manufacturers, models to managers and sales persons, for instance. Just like a very complex, well-oiled machine. The fashion industry is just like any other industry. Brands have to be creative, to impose themselves on the market, to attract clients and to sell their products.
According to a recent press release, HP announced that it has launched a new software suite to operationalize measure and improve IT performance. Tech Directors require standardized instruments that measure efficiently and improve performance. Having a comprehensive overview of IT performance enables Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to deliver an Instant-On Enterprise which incorporates everything he does in order to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with all they need, instantly.
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