Government agencies need to overcome funding uncertainties and other major barriers in order to realize savings from virtualizing their servers and desktops, according to a new study by MeriTalk. The report, “Virtualization Vacuum: The 2012 Government Virtualization Study,” surveyed government IT decision makers. One of the key findings is that 82 percent of federal and 77 percent of state and local IT professionals say their agencies have already implemented some server virtualization at an estimated savings of 19 percent of their IT budgets, which translates to $ 15 billion across government.
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