Some of the benefits that virtualization can offer your organization are:

• Deploy Testing Environments for new Deployments. This is one of the main business benefits you can gain from virtualization technologies. This allows organizations to create and test a wide variety of scenarios in a safe, self-contained environment that accurately approximates the operation of physical servers and clients, without needing to wait for budgeting, ordering, delivery and commissioning of new physical servers. The same approach can also be used to build proof of concept models, in a self contained and easy to deploy test environment.
• Server Consolidation. Organizations are under increased pressure to reduce cost while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages (flexibility, reliability, scalability and security). Virtualization can help consolidating many physical servers on a single unified system while maintaining any required isolation among them. The main benefit is to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by lowering hardware requirements, power consumption, cooling and management costs.
• Branch Office Consolidation. Organizations can consolidate small remote site servers to virtualize low utilization infrastructure workloads, departmental applications or just simple branch office workloads. Apart from the advantages described in the previous point, like reducing power requirements, branch office consolidation can reduce space requirements as well as having just one server to manage and backup.
• Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI). Virtualized Linux/Windows client operating systems running in our data center. VDI provides the best option for “road warriors” or remote users who need to access their work environment from home or from non-company owned PCs.

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