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Storage, 2013

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IEA-ETSAP and IRENA© Technology Brief E17-January

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As performance of processors and peripherals improves and companies increasingly move to distributed architectures while consolidating servers, high-speed and data intensive network applications (such as transaction processing, decision support, data warehousing …
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