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Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86

Overview This paper examines how, over the past several years, research has shown many organisation moving mission-critical systems onto x86 servers.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Parallel Processing, Blades, Fault-Tolerant Servers, Virtualization

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