""There's been a big push for virtualization which System 800xa excels at and has for years, but with virtualization you can reduce the number of physical machines however the number of operating systems usually remains the same," Tanner added. "But now we can reduce the number of nodes AND operating systems using just the power that's available in today's multi-core machines. For example, a typical 2-3000 IO system with batch, asset optimization, 8 operator clients and 2 engineering clients can go from requiring over 12 servers to around four!"