Employees are accustomed to personal clouds that provide easy access to information over multiple devices and IT has embraced cloud services to gain cheaper storage and processing power.

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The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.

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