That IaaS product is CloudForms, which provides a policy and governance structure, so that enterprises can move to the cloud safely and securely, and run and manage applications across physical and virtual servers, and in many types of public clouds.

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The reality is many companies still need physical dedicated hosting for legacy applications that cannot run in a virtualized environment.

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And given their focus on uptime, these managers are, perhaps justifiably, concerned with the risks of putting too many applications on too few physical servers.

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The group at UPenn imagines TitanArm could be employed as a lifting aid, but more importantly, in healthcare applications like increasing mobility or physical therapy -- sensors and other data from the exoskeleton could even allow docs to monitor patients remotely.

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"Basically you're encapsulating an operating system and applications within a virtual machine instead of separate physical servers, " said Marks.

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Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).

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The VIA ARTiGO A1150 is ideal for a variety of applications in the home or office, including home server, media streaming and surveillance applications or great as a regular desktop PC, using only a fraction of the physical real estate.

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