Instead of producing hardware, the company would provide software to run on low-cost commodity computing hardware, a model later marketed as software defined storage.

As computing hardware becomes more powerful, new software-driven advancements that require more bandwidth become possible.

The end of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century saw rapid advancements in telecommunications, computing hardware and software, and data encryption.

There may be different computing hardware available and there may be a couple of alternative algorithms to solve the problem in question.

In the history of computing hardware, computers using vacuum tubes were called the first generation; transistors and diodes, the second; integrated circuits, the third; and those using microprocessors, the fourth.