Among tech companies, different strategies are emerging as some companies decide to be specialized niche players while a very small number of other tech vendors choose to play at one or more levels of the 3-tier cloud stack: applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS).

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Waratek will let an enterprise swap out the middle layer of its software stack without changing its applications and significantly increase the density in data centers.

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