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Intelligent Performance, Virtualization and Energy Efficiency: The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
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Highlights on Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series-based Server
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Always watching the bottom line, your job is to make sure you get a solid return on your technology investments. You're interested in getting the most bang for your buck by investing in the most efficient servers and maintaining high utilization rates.
You have a datacenter full of servers to maintain, upgrade, and keep running to support critical business applications. You look for servers that are easy to manage, reliable, and can handle your applications without running up costs related to power and cooling.
If it's newer and faster, it's the server for you. Whether you're powering powerful business applications or just like having a shiny box to show off in your office, the latest and great in hardware and software is a must for you.
Your mission-critical business applications require servers that can handle peak loads and run without delay. It's all about performance, because your business users and customers need your servers to process information in an instant.
Learn how the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series intelligently adjusts performance and power usage to meet workloads, while allowing manual adjustment for IT control. »
Delivering up to 60 percent greater performance than the previous-generation processor, data centers can replace 15 single-core servers with one server and achieve a return on their investment in as little as 5 months. »
Developed with key learnings from Intel ITs experience in justifying server refresh internally, this tool allows you to enter data about your existing environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing it with the latest generation of Intel-based servers. »
If you've ever seen a photo of a microprocessor die, it looks a little like a city pictured from above. We use the analogy of a city to introduce our new microprocessor for servers, the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series. »
Read about Intel IT's testing of the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series that delivered up to 17.3X throughput improvements compared with single-core Intel Xeon processors and up to a 15:1 consolidation ratio by replacing servers based on single-core Intel Xeon processors. »
Results of Intel IT's evaluation of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel DCM that showed up to a 20% reduction in server power use with no impact on runtime, and potential for increased compute capacity, power savings and business continuity. »
Learn how Intel IT defined methods for analyzing computing energy efficiency within our design computing environment, using measurements of actual server power consumption and utilization. »
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