- Drastically reduce system downtime, both unscheduled and scheduled by providing an always on infrastructure.
- Scheduled maintenance is no longer disruptive - or expensive! Now you can perform scheduled maintenance during normal office hours, eliminating the need for support staff to work unsociable hours, and all the expense that practice attracts.
- A system that works when you really need it to. By dynamically re assigning extra resources to a critical task, a virtual infrastructure can adapt to meet demand. A valuable tool when that report really has to get out now.

- Expect on average a five fold saving on annual hardware maintenance contracts as the relative number of physical servers is reduced.
- Less support costs through less infrastructure: if it's not there it can't break. Consolidation can dramatically reduce the amount of systems that are just waiting to be upgraded, patched, service packed.
- There are amazing savings to be had on power consumption alone. A typical low end server sustaining minimal demand running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week costs a minimum of £20 per month. That's £240 per annum, per server.
- Cooling requirements grow at a steady rate with the infrastructure. The server used in the example above would cost over £80 per annum to keep at an operational level.
- Infrastructure costs slow as the infrastructures physical footprint recedes to acceptable levels.

- Virtualisation is unlike traditional business continuity solutions, where a near 1:1 ratio of production to contingency servers is required. Instead the entire contingency site can operate on a vastly reduced footprint bringing massive capital savings from day one.
- The ability for business operations to switch from your normal business location to a second contingency site in minutes, with a solution that really works.

- With virtualisation complete system backups are possible, making a full recovery quick and easy should the worst happen. There's time savings to be had too as locating tapes, cataloguing and the painfully slow process of data restoration becomes a thing of the past. Think minutes - not hours. Hot backups are now a reality.

- Enjoy huge savings on development hardware expense. The default behaviour of virtual machine isolation opens new possibilities when planning a test or staging area. Test environments can co-habit the same hardware as production servers, without jeopardising their stability.
- Perform actual real world tests using 100% identical replicas of your production systems. By using exact replicas you can be sure of exactly how the application of service packs, hot fixes or other changes will impact your systems and ultimately your business.
- Deliver your product pre-packaged and pre-installed for demonstration or evaluation purposes electronically. Not only is this method quick, it's also free. Better still, you can be confident that your customers will receive your product as you want them to see it, in a totally controlled guaranteed environment that works.
-Undo system wide changes if things go wrong, without re-building or re-imaging the whole machine, enabling rapid application development.

- 100% reversible environments.
- Compile libraries of pre-built virtual machines specifically tailored to each course. A complete classroom can be up and running to the exact course standard in minutes, saving many man hours in preparation.

- Security - Ensure safe remote access from unsecured locations outside the corporate perimeter. Allowing remote workers, business partners or consultants access to the corporate network is inherently plagued with dangers. How do you guarantee the remote unmanaged computer does not have viruses, spyware, key loggers or other malicious software? By deploying a standard, approved corporate desktop image, simply and securely.
- Deliver a fully managed corporate desktop without the deployment costs. By using virtual desktops a familiar Windows XP desktop is presented to the user reducing training requirements in many cases.