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Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors by Dell, Inc. and Intel
standardized on Intel® Xeon® processors with a core frequency of 3 GHz for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Software acquisition and licensing costs are the largest drivers of TCO for server deployment in most IT shops. This white paper compares the performance of low- and high-end processors in...
Scalability Test Results for Concurrent User Sessions on Servers Running Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors by Citrix
either Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Virtualization is becoming a standard method for creating flexible, dynamic data centers that can rapidly respond to changing business needs while effectively managing costs. Citrix XenServer 5, Enterprise Edition, has been optimized to support Citrix XenApp 4.5, offering excellent XenApp performance in a...
Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
that an R900 with six-core Intel Xeon 7450 processors was able to outperform an HP DL585 G2 with AMD Opteron quad-core processors by 27% while still having a 6% advantage in performance per watt. In comparison the R900 with Intel Xeon quad-core processors was able to outperform the HP DL585 G2, but with a 20% disadvantage in performance per watt. This shows that the...
Intel Itanium Processor Demo by Intel Corporation
RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs...
Cross-client Centrino® and Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ Processor Technology Technical White Paper by Intel Corporation
Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology-based notebooks and Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technologybased desktop PCs1 deliver built-in security and remote management capabilities to meet critical business c. The new generation of Intel-based notebook and desktop PCs deliver significantly improved performance...
Quad-Core Virtualization Processors by Intel Corporation
Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series based platforms deliver breakthrough performance, energy efficiency making them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient. Build a scalable, flexible infrastructure to grow and change with your business with Quad-Core...
See How Intel Xeon Processors Provide Data Traffic Optimization. by Intel Corporation
Learn how you can maximize consolidation, simplify manageability, and reduce data center costs using the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series - the optimal virtualization server platform. Learn how you can maximize consolidation, simplify manageability, and reduce data center costs using the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series - the...
LINX™ Inter-Process Communications (IPC) Service for Distributed Systems by Enea
on several different platforms, processors, and operating systems. They also may have different interconnect hardware, some reliable, some not. Further compounding the complexity is the trend to multi-core systems where some tasks that used to be performed in one central processor are now handed off to dedicated co-processors.

LINX is an inter...
Fewer Servers Doing More Work & More Concurrent User Sessions - Citrix XenApp 4.5 by Citrix
Do your processors optimize scalability and performance? This podcast explores a Xen approach that supports 70% more concurrent user sessions and enables fewer servers to do substantially more work. Do your processors optimize scalability and performance? This podcast explores a Xen approach that enables fewer servers to do...
Virtualizing XenApp with XenServer: Enable Fewer Servers to do More Work by Citrix
Do your processors optimize scalability and performance? This webcast shows you a Xen approach that supports 70% more concurrent user sessions and enables fewer servers to do substantially more work. Do your processors optimize scalability and performance? This webcast shows you a Xen approach that enables fewer servers to do...
Four-socket Servers Offer Significant Advantages and Lower TCO in Multiple Virtualization Deployment Scenarios. by Intel Corporation
Learn how four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processor 7400 series can offer significant advantages and lower TCO in multiple virtualization deployment scenarios. Intel IT discusses testing results of the new Intel Xeon 7400 series processor in a comparison of 2- and 4-socket servers for virtualization. Learn how four-socket...
Servers and the data center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Explore two different processors, their offerings and the performance and efficiency differences. Discover the efficiency trends for the future and what they might mean for your company. How do you consolidate your servers or data centers and still plan for growth? Server consolidation is about more than virtualization. There are advantages...
Dell Solutions Overview Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
access from the partitions to the physical processors.

When the Hyper-V role is enabled in Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V hypervisor uses the virtualization extensions in the processors (Intel VT or AMD-V) to place itself under Windows Server 2008. When the Hyper-V hypervisor loads for the first time, it creates a partition called the root partition or parent partition...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
servers equipped with new energy-efficient processors, converting to DC power delivery to servers, activating Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology in the BIOS, and using more efficient 2 GB memory modules--can deliver significant savings at the rack-level for today's data centers. Incorporating these changes resulted in an overall savings of up to 18...
Intel Virtualization ROI Calculator by Intel Corporation
cost savings possible with Intel Xeon processors using this assessment tool. Calculate the estimated cost savings possible with Intel Xeon processors using this assessment tool...
Delivering Virtualization Benefits by Refreshing Client PCs by Intel Corporation
to learn how new platforms that include faster processors with Intel Virtualization Technology can eliminate concerns about client virtualization performance and offer many other benefits. In Intel IT tests, a laptop PC based on Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology running a virtualized client environment performed up to 125 percent faster than a three-year-old...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
from Dell and Intel: blade servers, processors, and fans designed to boost energy efficiency and IT responsiveness.

Watch this webcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:

  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power, and waste
  • High density computing (Blades): reduce space
  • Improve power
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Podcast: Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
M-Series blade servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
from Dell and Intel: blade servers, processors, and fans designed to boost energy efficiency and IT responsiveness.

Watch this webcast or podcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:

  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power, and waste
  • High density computing (Blades): reduce space
...
Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
M-Series blade servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution...
Virtualization 101: A Guide to Using Virtualization in Any Environment by Citrix
In this paper, we will discuss how Citrix XenServer provides simple, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment. Virtualization adoption is concentrated among large enterprises, but mid-sized companies are faced with challenges around fragmentation, application performance, vendor lock-in, and...
The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend by Citrix
Read this paper to learn how integrating platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits. When getting started with virtualization, most IT managers fail to integrate the virtualization platform and shared storage backend. This white paper explains how combining the two helps avoid new...
Going Parallel with LabVIEW Delivers Throughput Gains by National Instruments
evolving technologies, such as multicore processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and high-speed data buses like PCI Express, as they design, develop, and implement the systems they have been commissioned to build. By combining these technologies with NI LabVIEW parallel programming software and NI TestStand test management software, test engineers can...
Maximize the Business Value of Datacenters with Intel, IBM and VMware by IBM and Intel
Learn how high performance virtualization solutions running on IBM and Intel technology can provide increased agility for your business. In this document you will see how high performance virtualization solutions running on IBM and Intel technology can provide increased agility for your business.

Combining the strengths of the quadcore...
Manage and Protect Your Entire PC Fleet by Intel Corporation
Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology delivers a new advanced and unified approach for improving the management and security of all of your business PCs. Take your business computing to the next level with innovative management and security capabilities for desktops and notebooks. Reduce the time and effort IT administrators...
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The future of the mainframe in healthcare: Two scenarios by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
shifting from the role of single incident sickness processors to group-driven ongoing healthcare managers. In other words, IT will happen, but cultural change is the needed ingredient to make it much more effective, much less costly, and much swifter to implement. So under any scenario, the healthcare market will change fundamentally, and the mainframe... More...
Mainframe performance management: Linux adds complexity by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
software with a few "best practices": Using zIIP processors, which improves a common (data-access) performance bottleneck. Increased focus on database performance management (neglect of this is often a source of high administrative "people costs") and on doing such often-scanted tasks as database reorganization (automatically, if possible... More...
The role of virtualization in data center disaster recovery by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
of the virtual machine, including virtual processors, memory, and devices. This serves as a very simple and portable single file that contains everything necessary to describe the server environment and the actual code and data that makes up that server. Launching the virtual machine from a virtual machine disk file automatically... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...