"We couldn’t add the additional accounting and reporting servers to our VMware environment. Which in and of itself isn’t that big of a deal, because we are already running them as physical servers. But, what was a big deal about it, is with those servers as VMs we can now replicate them to DR and have backups we can switch to within an hour, in case of a disaster. And, our file server would have continued to grow data-wise, as all file servers do, until we ran out of space. Plus, we wouldn’t have been able to take advantage of de-duplicating our data."