Data Center Strategies for the CIO
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Vertical integration comes to x86 systems |
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| Vertical hardware integration is also making its way
into the x86 virtualization world, from the microprocessor level with Intel Corp.'s Virtualization
Technology (VT) and Advanced Micro Device Inc.’s AMD-V chips to the level of pre-integrated data
center infrastructure with products like Oracle Corp.'s Exadata and the VCE Company’s Vblock
(shown above). So far, however, the most common use case is “out-of-the-box” support for a
single application such as an Oracle
or SAP
database, rather than thousands of concurrent workloads.
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This was first published in May 2011