40
Edge
Organizations
deploy x86
blade servers
from Oracle
to reduce
costs and
sharpen
business
services.
Cutting
BY DAVID A. KELLY
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Once deployed only as Web servers and in less-critical
deployment scenarios,
x86-based servers are now
deployed in datacenters and
cloud computing environments across the globe and
are successfully powering
business-critical applications. x86 processors,
including Intel’s powerful
Xeon processors, are the
processing foundation for
cutting-edge Oracle hardware, including database
and storage appliances such
as Oracle Exadata.
With standards-based
x86 servers powering the
engine rooms of so many
organizations’ IT infrastructures, what differentiates
Oracle x86-based servers?