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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Musings of an IT Pro Evangelist : Virtualization</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/tags/Virtualization/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Virtualization</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Virtualization and ROI</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/2008/12/05/virtualization-and-roi.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:30:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3164011</guid><dc:creator>txsnow</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/comments/3164011.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3164011</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/jsnow/WindowsLiveWriter/VirtualizationandROI_1227B/MSVirt_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="MSVirt" align="left" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/jsnow/WindowsLiveWriter/VirtualizationandROI_1227B/MSVirt_thumb.jpg" width="327" height="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You only need to work in IT about five minutes before someone comes in and asks you to cut costs and find ways to make things work more efficiently.&amp;#160; Virtualization is an easy way to achieve those goals.&amp;#160; Just like everything else in IT there are many different ways to implement things and many different environments that need to be supported.&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/wp-costsavings.mspx"&gt;A great white paper was recently published&lt;/a&gt; that highlights how Microsoft customers are cutting costs and building value using the family of Microsoft Virtualization products.&amp;#160; These are real world customers using virutalization and saving real money.&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/wp-costsavings.mspx"&gt;Take a look at the white paper&lt;/a&gt; and while you are at it &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/tco-roi.mspx"&gt;head on over to the virtualization teams ROI site&lt;/a&gt; for more details, an ROI calculator, and even a video.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3164011" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/tags/Virtualization/default.aspx">Virtualization</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/tags/Hyper-V/default.aspx">Hyper-V</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/tags/ROI/default.aspx">ROI</category></item></channel></rss>