Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series offer incredible performance increases while helping to lower your total cost of ownership. When comparing 4-year old server technology to servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series, you can experience a ROI in under 12 months. Intel offers an easy to use tool to determine how replacing older server technology can provide a positive return on your technology investment.

To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is the first of this new generation of server platforms built with higher I/O bandwidth for higher virtualization performance plus multi-generation VM migration for unparalleled flexibility in virtualized environments.

Learn how the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing—or design new—data centers from the inside out to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space. Data center efficiency starts at the core—with energy-efficient processors and sub-systems to get the most out of each server rack, pedestal or blade.

The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, with the new Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, brings intelligent performance to the world's most trusted server architecture. Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series will automatically and intelligently balance performance and power consumption, enabling servers to adapt in real time to application workloads and user demands, delivering optimal performance.

Capabilities of servers and their power consumption have increased over time. Multiply the power servers consume by the number of servers in use today and power consumption emerges as a significant expense for many companies. This article will explain how servers consume power, how to estimate power usage and the mechanics of cooling. It also discusses the major components impacting power consumption and where the inefficiencies lie.

In an effort to reduce costs, IT managers are evaluating the performance of a data center by tracking power measurements of the overall data center including both IT equipment and infrastructure to determine Power Use Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) ratios. Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics are provided in this article along with descriptions to help IT managers identify the ones that best fit their organization.

Learn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million.

Watch this YouTube video to see what goes into each Intel server product.

A new Intel microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, dynamically manages cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power to deliver outstanding energy efficiency and performance on demand.

This four-minute animation on Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor series covers energy efficiency technologies, including Power Gates and Power states.

Learn about Intel ITs cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center.

Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the metrics that enabled us to effectively reduce our environmental footprint.

With the new 45nm Multi-Core Intel Xeon processors, you can operate more efficiently and save on the bottom line costs. Download product brief.

A summary of strategies used by CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory. Read more about the energy-saving strategies developed by CERN openlab2 and used by CERN.

The Intel Xeon processor 5400 series helps provide your data center or business with the performance headroom needed to confidently consolidate applications onto fewer systems using proven virtualization solutions or the compute power necessary for high-performance computing applications and workstation solutions.