It follows what Nick Vitalari and I called, in the Elastic Enterprise, a strategic options approach and pursues adjacencies at will.

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Cloud servers need fast hard drives to locate consumer data quickly, and SSDs are the best options for enterprise servers at present.

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In addition to fully populated options utilizing 1TB, 2TB and 3TB enterprise grade 7200 rpm hard drives for the px2-300d, and 1TB, 2TB and 3TB SATA II drives for the ix4-300d, both product lines also offer diskless models allowing users to use their own HDDs.

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The 28-year-old admits he had other options, but was quickly sold on the new enterprise when he spoke to team principle Tony Fernandes and technical director Mike Gascoyne.

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Businesses will also have the ability to add or buy enterprise-specific functionality for their Windows Embedded 8-based solutions through licensing options Microsoft will make available in July.

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