x86-standard servers in comment and analysis
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment It also offers demand-based switching to improve the power consumption of servers by dialling down the chip when not in use. Manchester University spin-off, Transitive, began shipping a variant of its QuickTransit application emulation environment... [13 Dec 2007]
Diane Greene
AS Profile Greene released a desktop virtualisation product in 1999, followed by one for servers in 2001. In doing so, she brought virtualisation out of the mainframe bunker and onto industry-standard x86 hardware, which had never been designed to be... [12 Oct 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is not just about servers anymore. They originally used it to partition a server to consolidate numerous smaller servers - and for most people this is probably the first thing that springs to mind when the word is mentioned. [15 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Similarly, during its extended development, Itanium was widely expected to become the dominant processor architecture for servers, workstations, and perhaps even desktops, replacing the ubiquitous x86 architecture to provide an industry-standard... [06 Nov 2006]
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