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The Itanium® 2-based solutions and the integration of 64-bit extensions into x86-based processors now give organizations a choice. This white paper evaluates two industry standard, 64-bit architectures and provides a deep look at their features.

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Get the eBook Virtual Education: Using Virtualization To Change The Face of Business to learn how the latest virtualization techniques and technologies can make your company and your data center more successful.

To drive business decisions in the data center, Intel IT created a performance-driven methodology to compare the operating costs of virtualization platforms. By measuring workload performance, platform performance, and power consumption they were able to approximate the total cost of ownership (TCO) of each platform.

Intel's Customer Solutions Group developed a method for delivering virtualized compute power throughout the enterprise, with a utility-style framework that allocates resources on demand, based on IT policies. They expect this technology will increase agility and hardware utilization, decrease costs, and align business and IT goals.

With the growing market success of Itanium 2-based solutions and the integration of 64-bit extensions into x86-based processors, organizations now have a choice of two widely supported, industry-standard, 64-bit architectures. Which is the right choice for your data center?

Successful companies are making strategic IT decisions to help them achieve competitive advantage. Designed specifically for the most demanding enterprise applications, such as BI and ERP, the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor handles the heaviest workloads at a far lower cost than proprietary offerings.

To meet the demand for higher computing capacity without adding servers to the data center, Intel IT created a virtualization solution that provided high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs.

By adding more servers, the datacenter can quickly grow out of control, and bring power and cooling costs with it. Using new server technology available from Intel, however, IT managers can keep costs in check while running a more efficient operation.