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Virtualization has been sold for the host of benefits it offers, things like reduced capital expenditures, consolidation and speed of deployment. But it's not until you actually deploy a virtualized environment that you realize some of the other wonders it can bring to your operation. On the show floor at VMworld 2012, I asked attendees -- all of whom had virtualized -- some of the unforeseen gains they'd seen by virtualizing. Image: Plus Sign Illustration from Bigstock