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An Application-Centric View of Server I/O

Overview This presentation is intended for architects, designers, planners and others wishing to understand the key I/O concepts that are driving data center evolution today. The presentation explores the important relationship between modern applications and the I/O system on which they depend. It describes data center virtualization compared to server virtualization with respect to interconnect and outlines the role of interconnect in achieving data center virtualization (application access to common datacenter resources) compared to server virtualization (shared hardware devices).

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Intel	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006	Downloads	32
Format	Presentations
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Data Center, Server Consolidation

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