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Recent research by McKinsey and the Uptime Institute identified five key steps to achieving operational efficiency gains:

• Eliminate decommissioned servers, which will equal an overall gain of 10-25%

• Virtualize, which leads to gains of 25-30%

• Upgrade older equipment leading to a 10-20% gain

• Reduce demand for new servers, which can also increase efficiency by 10-20%

• Introduce greener and more power efficient servers and enable power saving features, this also equates to a 10-20% gain

By following the above steps, an organization can look to achieve an overall efficiency gain of 65%, significantly improving its PUE ratio.   

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script

     		update-rc.d package defaults

and in your postrm

     		if [ "$1" = purge ]; then
     		update-rc.d package remove
     		fi

WebTV, which came with a keyboard, allowed people to surf the Net on their TVs. But Kheradpir argued that "surfing" isn't exactly what people want to do when they're sitting in front of their TVs.

"People don't necessarily want a full browser on their TV," he explained. "TV viewing is still very much a sitting back experience. And what people really want is a service that is relevant to the TV viewing experience and also provides a simple interface with one click access."

Kheradpir said that Verizon is not trying to completely change the act of watching TV, but instead the company is looking to enhance the TV viewing experience. He thinks that Verizon can do this by providing interactive applications that are contextually relevant to users and the media they are consuming.