A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series

Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. It lets consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server, reducing the size and costs of IT infrastructure, while enabling to deploy new applications in minutes. Virtualization also lets move running applications from one server to another without downtime, for flexible workload management, high availability during planned maintenance or unplanned events. Investment in virtualization solutions is an intelligent business decision: the benefits in utilization, energy savings, manageability, service levels and cost models can be dramatic.