And you have a certain amount of redundancy in the system as well in terms of storage you can remove, a place where pictures and backup files can reside, and a way for files to be moved around without having to play around with cables or network connections.

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Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.

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