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  "name": "VMware vSphere & vSAN 8",
  "description": "VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 constitute an enterprise-grade virtualization and software-defined storage platform. vSphere acts as the hypervisor layer for managing virtual machines, while vSAN aggregates local storage into a shared pool, together enabling Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).",
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    {
      "slug": "microsoft-azure-stack-hci",
      "name": "Microsoft Azure Stack Hci"
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T05:15:35.94+00:00",
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    "founded": "1998 (VMware)",
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    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
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      "Public Cloud Storage Services: Utilizing cloud-native block storage services like AWS EBS or Azure Managed Disks for workloads migrated to the public cloud."
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