
Originally Posted by
Mirage
I'm not sure exactly what your customers need, but if for example your customer is an enormous travel agency, they might need more server resources around the holiday seasons than the rest of the year. With virtual machines, they can easily scale up and down their infrastructure, and not have to pay for hardware that is basically not doing anything off-season, allowing you to sell the spare processing power on those idle servers to other customers, and reduce costs for both your company and your customers