I have done several Application Virtualization TCO studies for my customers and the results are in between 5% to 8% overall TCO reduction depending on the customer's IT maturity and market. Most of the TCO savings comes from the application testing, packaging and PC supporting tasks but also indirectly...

IT aims to reduce downtime and minimize desk-side visits to further lower its desktop TCO especially for distributed networks. One feature which supports this initiative is Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) that does not rely on an operating system to manage target machines. In ConfigMgr...