Next-gen chips driving consolidation, consolidation, consolidation...
By Natasha Lomas, Silicon.com, Friday 14 September 2007
Chip-makers reckon their next generation of processors are stepping up to the challenges CIOs face: growing volumes of data, increasing demands on that data and rising energy costs.
But the technology poised to play the most significant role in tackling all these challenges is virtualisation, according to senior industry figures.
Virtualisation enables hardware to run multiple virtual machines, offering benefits such as the ability to run different operating systems on one server and to increase flexibility, availability and speed of deployment of computing resources.
Chris Ingle, consulting and research director for IDC's European systems group, said the next generation of server hardware needs to perform like never before - fulfilling increasingly complex business needs, without costing the earth.
Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines to be run per server - Ingle said: "This is all about data. Businesses are dealing with more data, they're trying to get data out to more places in the organisation and to do that they need high performance systems and we continue to see performance improvement in all kinds of systems - what we need to see is improvement in virtualisation, in management and in efficiency."
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