A story of innovation for x86-based servers

According to IDC, nearly 70% of IT server spending in 2010 will be on x86 servers. Once, there was a perception in the industry that these servers were suitable primarily for filling low-end computing niches, such as file-and-print, e-mail and departmental serving. However, leading vendors realise that x86 servers can take on a much broader role, needing many of the same reliability, serviceability, availability, and performance attributes as mainframes and other advanced servers.

This paper describes the evolution of a particular x86 technology and demonstrates how the melding of industry-standard components with innovation produces servers that offer capabilities with which you can effectively manage your business, running servers that are faster—yet cooler—use less power, and are more reliable, easier to manage and better for virtualisation than competitive servers, and offer a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).