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Virtualization strategy for mid-sized businesses

Overview Virtualization of business applications allows IT operations in companies of all sizes to reduce costs, improve IT services and manage risk. The most dramatic cost savings are the result of reducing hardware, space and energy usage, as well as the productivity gains that also lead to cost savings

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Parallel Processing, Blades, Fault-Tolerant Servers, Virtualization

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