index cycle

[′in‚deks ‚sī·kəl]

(meteorology)

A roughly cyclic variation in the zonal index.

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An Oracle report released recently entitled Next Generation Data Centre Index Cycle II reveals that many businesses seem to have been caught off guard by the boom in 'Big Data'.

Oracle Next Generation Data Centre Index raises questions as to the preparedness of businesses for the 'big data' boom: key findings suggest businesses having to 'buy' capacity in the short term rather than 'build' for the long term, to handle explosion in data volumes

* The Pacific Division (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii) has seen the largest stress index cycle of any region in the United States in 2000, the region sat comfortably below zero, showing little to no economic stress.

A new metric to gauge household economic stress: improving on the misery index

The Culisse winder is said to offer a faster, more efficient process compared with that of standard turret winders that produce scrap during the index cycle of the full roll.