Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without affecting business output or future growth. There are the customary cost-cutting strategies - including canceling or postponing expensive projects or reducing headcount - but smart businesses are looking at other options that reduce costs today and in the future. This paper contains some well known cost savings opportunities - and a few you may not have explored yet!

This paper discusses ways for SMB's to realize:

• 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in nonvirtualized PCs).
• Cost savings of more than $3,000 annually for every workload virtualized.
• Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks.
• 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime.