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Storage Appliance

A storage appliance is a device that provides storage or disk space via a network-mounted connection. This technology helps in the flow of information to other network-computed devices by storing large amounts of data. Increasingly, storage appliances are virtual machines or accessed by cloud servers.

What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Storage Appliance

Any business that needs to backup files, archive past information, or access primary data will benefit from using storage appliances. Many use storage appliances as part of their third-party cloud hosting services.

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