Walmart, your existing customer has 5 Dell Power Edge R200 servers for running Microsoft Net. Glassfish, WebLogic, Tomcat, and Silverstream applications separately. The Dell Power Edge R200 cost $749 with power rating of 345W. As Managed Service Provider, you want to advice the Walmart that by virtualization technology, you can run all the 5 applications on a single Dell Power Edge 2900 server. Dell Power Edge R2900 cost $1499 with power rating of 930W. Explain to Walmart expected benefits of choosing virtualization technology over physical servers in their environment. Assumption: Electricity cost 9.74 cents/kWh, and units of power consumption is 8670 per month
