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Benefits for Business utilzing Xeon Platforms
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Impact Far Beyond the Data Center
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Your business, your customers and your competitors don’t stand still. Neither does technology. It is constantly advancing and improving, presenting new benefits and new possibilities across industries.
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At the same time, the variety and complexity of technologies make it essential that you choose them carefully — in order to ensure that your business’s flexibility is maximized while the risks and costs are minimized. And because your information technology is central to all business operations, your organization’s future hangs in the balance: how well you can reduce costs, increase returns on assets, enhance productivity, strengthen customer relationships, respond to competitive challenges and create what your customers want to buy.
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A Technology Decision that Defines Your Future
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There are a small number of technology decisions that can truly define your future — the business possibilities and performance going forward. The introduction of Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems presents one of those opportunities. Far more than just “fast servers,” a technology infrastructure built on Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms improves your return on IT assets while enabling entirely new business possibilities. Based on the advanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and built with complementary advanced technologies, these servers comprise a powerful, flexible, cost-effective fabric that not only delivers value in the data center, but forms a powerful pivot around which you gain new business advantages by doing things you couldn’t do before:
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• Reach customers in new ways while strengthening relationships
• Design more complex products and services faster
• Transform supply chains to be much more responsive and efficient
• Know sooner, decide better and act faster in the most complex, fast-paced environments
• Increase productivity and collaboration internally and with your partners
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In short, the business capabilities and innovations enabled by a Dual-Core Xeon processor-based infrastructure can make your company leaner, more agile and more competitive.
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An infrastructure based on new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems is fundamentally advanced, combining multiple synergistic capabilities. And it’s based on industry standards, connecting you to the largest network of hardware, software and solution providers — maximizing your choices, driving your costs down and giving you access to constant innovation and advances.
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Business Innovation Made Possible
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With Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms, we combine effective technologies, software services and industry alliances
that optimize your infrastructure to deliver the right business services more efficiently and at lower cost:
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Fundamental business solutions that allow IT to increase performance and efficiency. Enjoy powerful and affordable servers that deliver core business processes, including application servers, e-mail servers, Web servers and more. For example, new Intel Xeon processor-based servers can run core Web-based operations up to 58% faster than similarly configured competitive offerings.
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Supply chain management solutions that turn traditional supply chains into sense-and-respond demand chains and increase collaboration with suppliers and customers. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers outperform similarly configured competitive offerings for SAP’s sales and distribution benchmark by up to 20%.
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools that use real-time data from multiple sources and applications to improve decision making and efficiency. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers have industry-leading reliability features that protect your core business processes from downtime and help ensure you have the information you need when you need it. And preventing downtime also saves significant cost — up to $2 million per hour, depending on the industry.
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Automated trading and risk analysis systems that can manage exploding trade volumes and increasing product and market complexity. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers outperform similarly configured competitive offerings
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Data analytics and business intelligence tools that turn data into business advantage faster and allow analysis of larger data sets. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers outperform similarly configured competitive offerings on transaction-intensive applications by up to 45% as measured by the TPC-C benchmark.
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Building Your New Business Capabilities
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Significantly higher performance: Dual-Core platforms deliver outstanding performance with up to 3X the processing power of
yesterday’s single-core servers, unlocking the full potential of 64-bit, multi-core computing. By driving your data- and transaction-intensive applications faster, your business can know more, know it faster and respond better. You can deploy increasingly powerful business tools to track your marketplace and identify previously hidden opportunities.
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Flexibility to adapt: Virtualization is a technology that allows one server to act like many and squeezes more usage out of each server — increasing your computing power and available resources without increasing your cost. Intel® Virtualization Technology2 (Intel® VT) — standard on Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems — works by hardware-assisting the virtualization environment, and has been heralded by industry analysts and business technology leaders as a significant advancement. Intel VT, in combination with powerful, more reliable servers, enables even greater asset utilization, allowing you to do more with less capital expense, while at the same time increasing confidence.
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The Technology That Underlies Your Business Advantage
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64-bit dual-core processing: Optimizes processing capacity with two complete processing units in one chip and supports both 32-bit and advanced 64-bit applications on the same server, allowing your business to smoothly migrate to 64-bit solutions. Having two cores yields a performance improvement of up to 3X that of earlier single-core processors and enables the simultaneous execution of multiple demanding tasks.
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Breakthrough energy-efficient performance: Intel’s 65 nanometer manufacturing technology combined with our unique Intel® Demand-Based Switching (DBS) — which reduces processor power consumption when utilization is low — allows Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems to deliver the leading performance per watt.
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Hardware-assisted virtualization: Intel Virtualization Technology enables a single server to function as multiple virtual servers to securely support and separate different applications. This capability is essential to consolidating servers and allows businesses to get more from their existing systems.
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Expanded memory capabilities: Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory proactively protects data and improves security through advanced redundancy and error checking features. Additionally, FBDIMM expands memory capacity while simultaneously allowing better memory bandwidth to meet the demands of business intelligence, database and other compute-intensive applications.
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ntel® I/O Acceleration Technology3 (Intel® I/OAT): A new and unique Intel® platform technology that improves network responsiveness by getting network data to applications faster and reducing server system overhead. Implementing Intel I/OAT enables better application responsiveness without requiring changes to a business’s existing network or security configurations.
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Removing Today’s Business Bottlenecks
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Significantly lower power consumption and cost: Systems based on the advanced Intel Core microarchitecture deliver outstanding
energy-efficient performance — saving energy and lowering your operating costs. In addition, when computing loads are low, Intel Demand-Based Switching technology optimizes real-time power consumption and performance, further lowering energy usage. Combined, these capabilities mean significant savings on energy costs. Over hundreds or thousands of servers, the total savings become substantial. Finally, when virtualizing your servers with Intel Virtualization Technology, you gain additional energy cost savings by deploying and powering fewer servers overall.
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Increased return on assets: By doing more with your servers and operating them more cost effectively, you increase your return on IT assets. But even more importantly, the new business tools and processes made possible by your Dual-Core Intel Xeon processorbased infrastructure enables a greater return on your people, expertise and competitive differentiators. Designed with the future in mind, these new advanced technology servers support four or more generations of Intel® multi-core processors in the same platform. This provides an ideal foundation for IT standardization — enabling lower maintenance costs through reduced complexity over time.
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Unmatched reliability and increased uptime: Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems are built with more server reliability features than competitive offerings, giving you the increased uptime your business demands. A dependable infrastructure is essential to keep all of your business processes online and productive. You can count on Intel to deliver superior quality and reliability every step of the way.
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Next : Chipset for Dual Core Xeon
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