Existing IT systems were designed to address problems of data integrity, process management, security and speed for multi-channel transactions.

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Virtualization DOES work, but in a narrow sense: if you need a dedicated server, not so much for power as for security, data integrity, and the like, you can farm out a VPS a lot cheaper than you can farm out a whole machine.

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