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SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter

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Overview SGI offers customers a new choice for maximizing Return On Investment (ROI) with a highly scalable platform based on industry standards. SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. Altix provides a unique combination of an open environment, a powerful processor platform, and the flexibility and scalability of the SGI system architecture. The result is a new way for IT to increase productivity and competitiveness by enabling the realtime, flexible enterprise.

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Publisher	SGI	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center, ROI - TCO

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