This white paper (registration required) describes the business benefits associated with virtualizing an IT infrastructure using CMT technology from Sun. The paper shows how, through the implementation of Sun's CMT-based virtualization, businesses can reduce costs--in some cases in excess of $4 million USD over 5 years. The paper also describes how virtualization can help businesses reduce the number of datacenter servers by a ratio of 13 to 1, reduce datacenter power and cooling costs by up to 90%, and yield an ROI on their datacenter equipment of more than 1696% with a 16 month payback.

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