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Choose Software-Driven Technologies That Drive Web-Scale Capabilities

Enterprises are increasingly seeking hardware-agnostic approaches for their data centers. Historically, this approach has been confined to large cloud companies (think Google, Amazon and Facebook). But with the performance characteristics available in commodity x86 servers, the rise of the DevOps practices in enterprises and software-based application services, the web-scale IT architectures of the cloud giants are available to most enterprises. Many application services that were confined to specialized hardware appliances are now available in elastic and scalable software-driven technologies that help avoid the problem of overspending and overprovisioning.