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Five Reasons to Virtualize Servers -- Now

By Renee Oricchio

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Save money, conserve energy, secure data -- do you need any more incentives to virtualize your business servers? How about more flexibility and redundancy?

According to Gartner, roughly two thirds of all servers sold are shipped with Microsoft’s server software. Each generation is more powerful and sophisticated in what it can handle, the latest being the highly anticipated release of Microsoft Server 2008 that came out in February of this year. For the smaller business, prices start around $1,000 for the standard version and just under $500 for the no frills Web-only server application. Depending on the company’s size and budget, those Windows-based servers can be a major expense.

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