Transforming Business-Critical Infrastructure Through Migration to Itanium-Based Servers: A Decision-Maker's Guide to the Benefits, Challenges, and Available Resources

Itanium-based servers are changing the face of business-critical computing by delivering enterprise-class scalability and availability on an industry-standard computing architecture that is more flexible and affordable than proprietary RISC and mainframe architectures. The broad choice of vendors, operating systems, and applications provides a solid foundation for integration, and enables core enterprise applications to be scaled well beyond the limits of legacy technologies. Large businesses around the world are migrating to Itanium-based systems, and finding that the move helps to free them from the limitations of proprietary architectures, while improving the economics of their data centers in fundamental ways.