For example, a business needs to capture new data sources such as location, motion, and environmental conditions like temperature and humidity.

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The reduced floor space requirements, lower power consumption, and the tolerance of wider temperature and humidity ranges dramatically reduce operational costs and environmental impact through an all-flash hyperscale datacenter.

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In the future, embedded sensors that provide environmental conditions such as humidity and temperature will be commonplace.

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Right now the focus is on humidity, temperature and barometric pressure, though other environmental variables would be relatively trivial to tack on.

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