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Virtual reality: outsourcing hardware and software cuts costs.(Special Report: Technology)

In a struggling economy, business owners are forced to find ways to reduce costs and technology is no exception.

Information technology service providers, in turn, find themselves responding to these needs and different requests and inquiries.

There already is a trend toward reducing overhead by consolidating servers in a process called virtualization; using hosted applications not requiring software purchases; and co-location of servers, but industry experts said the downturn will speed up acceptance.

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Where a small business owner may have cast a skeptical eye toward and sat on the fence over these improvements during a strong economy, a ...

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