RISC-Based Servers White Papers
Intel Itanium 2-Based Solutions Deliver Performance Step up and Cost Reduction for World Class Manufacturer
Overview Saacke is a 100 year old medium sized, family owned, company based in southern Germany, with a world wide reputation as a quality manufacturer of precision tools and grinding machines. The company sells in over 70 countries and has recently opened local offices in both China and the US. In order to manage it's next stage of development Saacke recognized that a more powerful and cost effective IT infrastructure was essential to it's success. A switch from five servers based on 32 bit RISC architecture and Unix to one Intel Itanium 2 processor-based server running on Linux. Not only does this reduce the IT running costs for Saacke by 30% p.a. but also it provides the company with a twenty fold increase in processing power, the capacity to serve twice as many customers and a 3 times reduction in back up time.
| Publisher | Intel | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | July 2004 | Downloads | 1 |
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