There is a growing recognition among organizations that stateless provisioning is a promising approach to dramatically improving the management of large pools of servers. It loads orders of magnitude faster, guards against having the wrong versions, and is much more effortless. And repurposing can occur on-demand as service and business demands change and resource allocation must be adjusted.

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Our customers … tell us all the time that they are able to manage their server clusters by themselves with limited training.

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