OS Migration and Legacy Application Support

Virtualization makes it possible to run critical applications in their native operating systems while running all other applications in modern operating systems.

Business Continuity and Disaster Readiness

Because virtual machines are merely files that can be backed up and moved to external/permanent storage, virtualization creates an environment that can recover from disasters at unprecedented speeds.

Server Consolidation

A virtual environment can support many virtual machines on one physical host.  As an example, one moderately equipped server could host as many as three separate virtual machines, each running separate operating systems and/or applications.