One of the most common causes for concern we hear from our customers when evaluating virtualization technology for their organization is “What is the return on investment?” To address this concern, we’ve created a Virtualization and Application Availability ROI Calculator. The idea was to create a simple tool that helps decision makers get a quick assessment of virtualization’s potential impact on their organization. With that being said we want ROI calculator users to:

• Discover what your direct benefits could be from server consolidation with Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition v4
• Learn how much you could save by protecting productivity and business critical work loads with XenServer and everRun VM
• Develop a worst case scenario to see what happens if your benefits are lower – and costs are higher – than you anticipated

If you want to see some examples of the cost of downtime for specific industries, take a look at this post where our CTO, Jerry Melnick, discusses Marathon’s footprint in virtualization and high availability with Citrix’ Barry Flanagan.