Hardware and software are like love and marriage and, to reference the old Sinatra classic, you cant have one without the other. Microsoft and Google rely on more than one million servers each to power their cloud environments. Software makes things run it allows us to be productive, send emails, create documents, organize content, and it protects us from security threats. Hardware is the foundation of everything we do in IT and, without a foundation, the house is not secure. The perfect marriage of hardware and software can be seen in persistence technology.”]
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