Appliances have a solid place in the IT world as vendors take a stand-alone system and install their software on top for a very specific purpose. Storage appliances, network appliances, antispam/antivirus appliances, load balancers, and so forth all have a special place in organizations that see the value in having devices with lower setup complexity and allow for simplified support. The downside: They take up space in your environment (aka appliance sprawl), not to mention the added hardware cost they can incur.
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