The digital "cloud" will take care you: back up your data, make it possible to get photos or information anywhere you need it.

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Despite the move to control the growth of digital storage requirements in data centers (e.g. the cloud) by means of virtualization, deduplication and other methods to achieve higher storage capacity utilization the amount of stuff and the size of the stuff we store continues to increase.

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Exponential growth in digital information and greater adoption of newer technologies like cloud computing, big data and virtualization have contributed to growth in external storage systems, and EMC will be the biggest beneficiary with its stronghold in SAN and NAS markets as well as continued growth in unified storage.

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Cloud-computing refers to the utilization of digital resources through the Internet, as opposed to holding data in in-house mainframes.

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This assists in rapid access to the data on digital tape and is one of the key technologies to support the development of cloud based archive technologies such as the Permivault technology recently introduced by Fujifilm.

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However, most likely, Azure represents a mere bridge from the present paradigm in which the operating system drives the performance of our devices to the next digital paradigm where our devices become mere conduits for Big Data and artificial intelligence platforms that are run from the cloud.

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