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While IT organizations often struggle to do more with less, finance departments are traditionally wary of new technology investments. This is not the case, however, at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), a nonprofit organization of more than 330,000 members that sought to consolidate 250 Web and application servers onto a scalable server and storage infrastructure and improve online service availability. This case study describes how the AICPA migrated an aging infrastructure of 250 stand-alone HP servers to just five Dell PowerEdge 6850 servers with Intel Xeon processors running VMware virtualization software, using PlateSpin software from Novell to accelerate the process. The organization also deployed Dell/EMC CX300 and Dell/EMC CX3-10c storage area networks (SANs) as well as Dell desktops and laptops