Due to the recent economic state of affairs, organizations are asking their IT management to do more with less. Dwindling budgets and the necessity to remain competitive are creating challenges for the telecommunications infrastructure. Specifically, telecommunications departments are being asked to innovate in the most cost efficient manner while maintaining service level agreements. In order to meet these business requirements, organizations are considering or implementing products such a VMWare or MicroSoft Virtual PC. Virtual Machine implementations create opportunities to lower capital and operational expenditures and minimize potential loss of revenue by decreasing downtime.