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What Are The Savings?

Businesses Save an Average of 50% Vs.Traditional IT

Hosted Virtual Desktops remove the need for costly capital expenditure on physical servers since the utility pricing model allows business to only pay for what you use as a monthly operating expenditure. Additional cost savings are possible as there is no longer a need for expensive IT maintenance contracts and internal IS specialists can be redeployed.

Exising PCs can continued to be used and, by using as in conjunction with a virtual desktop, have their life extended. Alternatively the savings made by using virtual desktops can fund the purchase of energy efficient Thin Clients to replace traditional PCs.

Financial Benefits of Hosted Virtual Desktops

Traditional IT	Virtual Desktops
Capital expenditure and operating expense Upfront purchase costs for server and software Entire financial risk is upfront with uncertain return Maintenance and depreciated captial expense Software and hardware are carried as long-term capital asset	Operating Expense Pay as you go - just pay for what you use Financial risk is taken monthly and matched to return No maintenance expense Nothing appears on the balance sheet