
Intel and Microsoft: Leading Innovation, Lasting Advantage
IT systems cannot keep pace with business demands simply by continuing to increase the processing capacity of a silicon die, or by dropping more servers into a data center. The new surge in rich Web interfacing demands flexible solutions. Intel and Microsoft are meeting that challenge with new hardware architectures that are optimized for scalable,
that uses these new capabilities. Together, these dual technologies can deliver faster, more supple performance and capacity where and when they are needed.
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Web Technologies
The common vision of Intel and Microsoft is being fulfilled in their collaboration on advanced technologies that achieve higher levels of performance, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. With regard to
Maintaining an efficient and reliable Web presence that can cope with the pressures of business — both today and in the future — requires a host of improved software and hardware capabilities. The current environment of sprawling physical Web servers, and the management burden of having to handle so many, is problematic for many businesses. Further, servers are handling more concurrent transactions, and Web user expectations are high. Businesses require greater transactional throughput in Web servers as well as Web workload consolidation to improve efficiency
and lower total costs.
Sophisticated Web designers also demand more from their hosting platforms. As they are asked to produce ever richer Web sites, they must be able to install and run the most complex scripts and programs on their servers — smoothly and securely.
The pairing of Intel and Microsoft Web server technologies meets these challenges. With Microsoft, the key Web- related improvements in Windows Server 2008 are the complete integrated web stack, improved development framework and information services, and sleek new power management features. Intel then provides the necessary backbone for Microsoft’s improved platform. Whether Web professionals use Windows Server 2008 features to develop applications for a database server, a Web server, or Web services,