The company's algorithm draws on information from more than 100 databases and social networks, looking at an array of variables such as users' locations and the number of personal connections.

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And the dissolution of these containers is the key that unlocks the IT dungeon and lets CEOs and CIOs begin to dismantle the sprawl of servers and networks and databases and middleware and workarounds and expensive integration requirements that, until very recently, were believed to be the inexorable price to be paid for life in our modern, mobile, and consumer-driven world.

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