Server Refresh: Meeting the Changing Needs of Enterprise IT with Hardware/Software Optimization

Following a year of project delays and deferrals in 2009, many IT organizations are planning technology refresh for their aging x86 servers — especially those that are more than three years old. Many net-new technologies have become available in the marketplace over the past three years — and IT organizations will benefit in terms of IT efficiency, power/cooling, performance, and scalability that simply were not shipping in 2007 and earlier. New capabilities in x86 processors will provide support for more demanding enterprise workloads and for larger groups of end users.