One benefit of being in the "server farm" business is that so many businesses across sectors depend on having access to massive amounts of data, storage and processing power to keep their businesses running.

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Sometimes, this takes the form of massive Storage Area Networks that are used to stockpile new forms of raw data.

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This is possible because virtualization makes cloning software very easy, and Networked Attached Storage devices have extremely sophisticated ways of making virtual copies of large amounts of data and then tracking the changes between the two copies, which saves massive amounts of storage.

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