Great pick up from Emma, our resident licensing guru

It is actually positioned as a tool for partners, so either send this their way or make use of it yourself. It takes up to 30 mins, but will enable you to examine current production server, development/QA lab, desktop and application virtualization opportunities, quantifying the potential savings, service level and agility benefits, investment and ROI for implementing Microsoft Integrated Virtualization solutions.

The tool collects specific information about current infrastructure costs and opportunities for improvement, then uses research by Alinean to project potential costs and benefits for various optimization strategies using the Microsoft Integrated Virtualization solutions. ).

Additional Resources

• Don’t know how many physical servers can be consolidated using virtualization? Want to refine your ROI assessment? Download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool to help you identify virtualization candidates.