Microsoft today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software. Microsoft’s business customers have been able to use virtualization to help reduce operations and capital expenses via reduced electrical power consumption and cooling within datacenters, reduced hardware acquisition costs, automation of desktop and server management, and centralized application deployment.

For the full press release, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-09VirtualizationSavingsPR.mspx

To read a guest post from David Straede, president Santa Barbara Web Hosting, please visit the Virtualization blog.

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