Whole industries are being created and reshaped in order to profit from moving, storing, analyzing, optimizing and virtualizing these bits.

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This aggressive transformation will be accomplished by virtualizing data centers, consolidating IT operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.

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And the latest iteration of it to hit the world of work is Talent as a Service (TaaS), the virtualizing of the workforce.

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Most of the Cisco equipment you buy sits idle quite a bit of the time: by virtualizing it, you can improve performance and lower your equipment costs at the same time.

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By reducing the data footprint, virtualizing the reuse and storage of the data and centralizing the management of the data set, Big Data is ultimately transformed into small data and managed like virtual data.

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While it is true that virtualization may be creating a situation where there is now a single point of failure, the cost benefits of virtualizing servers are well documented.

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