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Virtualization Technology in the Law Firm

BY Stanleigh Rabin
March 29, 2010

Virtualization is one of the IT buzzwords in 2010. You see it referenced everywhere ' in IT budgets, glossy brochures and on every computer a firm purchases. For law firms, virtualization can bring many benefits ' it can simplify the type and number of applications used throughout the firm, save significant time, offer more uniformity across the enterprise, stabilize the computing environment and extend the useful life of hardware.

One of the greatest advantages that virtualization brings is the ability to minimize the complexity of the end-user computing environment for the firm's attorneys and support staff. With so many different applications, from time and billing to client relationship management systems, end-user desktops rapidly become overly complex and prone to disruptive problems, infections and corruptions requiring extensive support time and resources.

This can become a huge headache, since the IT staff must master numerous programs, manage system conflicts that regularly crash computers, constantly conduct upgrades and install frequent replacements. With virtualization, many of these issues can be minimized or eliminated.

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