Intel and Microsoft Alliance: Transform, Optimize, Achieve

Briefs and Whitepapers

• A New Standard for Virtualization Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ and the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series

  Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ and servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 Series set a new standard for virtualization performance.

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• Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ performance on Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 Series running vConsolidate 2.0

  This test report published by Principled Technologies shows the performance and power of the Intel Xeon processor 7400 Series for virtualized environments running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

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• Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ Solution Brief

  Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems running Windows Server® 2008 are an ideal platform for all virtualization solutions, helping IT organizations to significantly reduce operating costs, increase server utilization, and achieve better ROI.

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• Microsoft and Intel: Complementary Virtualization Technologies

  This one pager offers an overview of Intel’s and Microsoft’s complementary virtualization technologies, powering virtualization solutions from the data center to the desktop.

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• Intel® Virtualization Technology Brief

  Discover how Intel® Virtualization technology can help you improve Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO.

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• Intel® Xeon® Processor 7300 Series Product Brief

  Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series-based servers provide a powerful platform with leading performance, headroom and availability to power the most challenging virtualization deployments.

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• Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series Product Brief

  The breakthrough performance, energy, efficiency, and reliability of Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series-based servers make them the ideal choice infrastructure virtualization projects

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• Virtualize with Intel® Xeon® Processors and Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-VTM

  As virtualization technology plays an increasingly critical role in IT strategy, the nature of network management is changing. Intel and Microsoft bring advanced hardware and software technologies to streamline management of virtual and physical servers.

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• Server Consolidation with Intel® Xeon® Processors and Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™

  Learn more about high-level decision points that IT departments should consider when implementing a server consolidation strategy, so as to maximize their investment in Intel and Microsoft technology.

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• High Availability with Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ and Intel® Xeon® Processors

  Designing highly available solutions is now a standard in many organizations as they must ensure that their information systems remain operational in any event. When designing a high availability solution with Hyper-V™, Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers offers the reliability features to mitigate the risk of a single point of failure.

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• Leading Virtualization 2.0

  How Intel is driving virtualization beyond consolidation into a solution for maximizing business agility within the enterprise.

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• Streaming and Virtual Hosted Desktop Study

  Intel® Information Technology studied the impacts of streamed client and Virtual Hosted Desktop (VHD) computing models on server and network utilization. Streaming more efficiently supports multimedia and other dynamic applications, including unified communications.

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• Windows Server® 2008, Multi-Core Servers, and the Future of Enterprise Computing

  The capabilities of Windows Server® 2008 on multi-core Intel®-based platforms represent the next stage in IT evolution: the ability to consolidate business applications on a high-performance, flexible infrastructure.

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• Intel® vPro™ Technology

  Remotely manage both wired and wireless PCs from the same IT console with hardware-assisted security and remote manageability enabled by Intel® vPro™ technology.

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• A Dynamic Approach to Power Budgeting

  This article highlights the ability to dynamically select optimal P- and T-states of the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture so that software components—from Intel® Dynamic Power Technology Node Manager (Node Manager) to Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V*—can use these features and interoperate seamlessly.

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