A look back at 2013 shows us that it's been a year of great change for data center managers.
Virtualization continued its march across all platforms, forming the core of private clouds. In tandem with virtualization, organizations have begun to explore how they can arrive at software-defined data centers. Mobile devices became common endpoint clients, and big data was everywhere.
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