However, with increasing server computing capacity and virtualization, multiple workloads per physical server are common in cloud architectures.

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Additional feeder redundancy also ensures reserve capacity to sustain power if multiple feeders fail.

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As a result, consumers are prone to experience deteriorated performance such as choppy videos and slower load times, especially when streaming content from the cloud, smartphone or tablet to a digital TV. 5G WiFi dramatically improves home wireless range, providing higher-capacity video streaming, the ability to connect multiple devices to the network at the same time and broader coverage with fewer dead spots.

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Configurations are fluid, capacity is shared and sourced from many places (multiple providers, infrastructure tiers, etc.), and all of these moving parts can impact performance.

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The third generation increases storage capacity to 180 TB using 4 TB HDDs and allows multiple boot-drives, including SSD drives.

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Consider how IT management is handled today by most organizations: when capacity, configuration or performance issues are detected, a ticket typically must be filed and then handled by multiple people as it flows through numerous procedural steps before the problem is remedied.

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