services, labor costs for installation, administration, and operations, and ongoing system management costs. Windows Server 2008 is designed to win organizations a great reprieve of total Web service costs by reducing total management effort, down-time, and more.
Now, Intel carries the Microsoft goal of decreased overhead to the next level. With Intel Xeon processor–based servers, providers can decrease the number of servers needed, reduce energy costs, and cut back on cooling requirements without sacrificing performance. Low-voltage options, like the 50-watt Intel Xeon processor use 35% less processor power consumption while maintaining the same perform- ance level as the standard quad-core versions.
Even better, Intel’s latest 45nm processor architecture provides a huge boost to performance (up to 20% faster transistor switching speeds and up to 50% larger L2 caches) while simultaneously expanding power management capabilities for new levels of energy efficiency. That means better performance in the same footprint at lower power.
The following Intel Xeon processor features also serve to reduce TCO:
•Demand-Based Switching (DBS) with enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology for lower power and footprint costs
•Fully-buffered DIMM technology for a three-fold increase in memory bandwidth and a four-fold increase in memory capacity (up to 64 GB)
•New memory controller features including Error Correction Code (ECC) system bus, new Memory Mirroring, and
I/O hot plug, for improved platform reliability
Simply put, Intel Xeon processor-based servers keep Windows Server 2008–based web systems performing and reliable without prohibitively consuming energy.
Summary
Windows Server 2008 running on Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor–based servers empowers organizations to optimize the benefits of this robust next-generation platform. Intel Xeon processors magnify the power of Windows Server 2008 for Web, virtualization, and enterprise-class solutions. Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors running Windows Server 2008 deliver enhanced energy efficiency, performance, utilization, and reliability. Together, Windows Server 2008 and Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors enable businesses to grow their computing solutions more efficiently while helping to keep data centers cool. Individually, the new Web server technologies from Microsoft and Intel offer outstanding performance, reliability, and scalability. Together, they create an ideal platform, not only for virtualization and enterprise workload balancing, but also for branch office and Web application serving.
For More Information
For more information about Intel Xeon processors, visit:
www.intel.com/products/server/processors/index.htm
For more information about the Intel and Microsoft Solutions, visit: www.intelalliance.com/microsoft
For more information about Windows Server 2008, including Windows Server virtualization, visit: www.
microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx
