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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, multi-core processing, as well as software
that uses these new capabilities. Together, these dual
technologies can deliver faster, more supple performance
and capacity where and when they are needed.
Intel and Microsoft share a long-time commitment across
engineering, sales, and service to deliver innovations in
hardware and software that make business more powerful,
efficient, and flexible. These platform improvements
provide a foundation for Microsoft to further optimize
its software IT infrastructure.
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 large-scale Web hosting, the
pair confronts modern challenges in server management,
transaction load support, and hosting cost reduction.
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, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors supply