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Virtualization for Competitive Advantage

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Overview Albridge Solutions has migrated from proprietary RISC/UNIX servers to the Egenera BladeFrame system running Linux on x86 processors. Initially, IT considered building a virtualized environment from white boxes, but found that complexity and management would be overwhelming. Blade servers from the industry's largest vendors were also ruled out since their legacy architectures made virtualization and resource sharing impossible. Today, with the Egenera BladeFrame, Albridge can run any application on any blade at any time based on demand, breaking the one application/one server model IT shops have struggled with for years.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Egenera	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Blades, RISC-Based Servers, Virtualization

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