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Intelligent Performance, Virtualization and Energy Efficiency: The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
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Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series Product Brief
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Intel IT developed a pragmatic plan to address rising capacity requirements and costs related to storage. After assessing the current storage environment, it then created a roadmap to deliver an optimized storage environment based on existing and emerging technologies. The plan should reduce storage capacity requirements by 27 percent over the next five years while keeping costs flat. »