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Microsoft's New Datacenter to Power Xbox One
The $700 million facility will be built on a "cloud-scale datacenter design"--a plan to deliver high performance and high reliability that depends on software rather than redundant hardware to keep the facility online.
The $700 million facility will be built on a "cloud-scale datacenter design"--a plan to deliver high performance and high reliability that depends on software rather than redundant hardware to keep the facility online.
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Building a Business Case for HP Blades Servers
Savvy IT professionals are finding that blade servers are less expensive than traditional rack servers for most new deployments, while also delivering improvements in agility, scalability and manageability. If your organization is deploying a new server farm or cluster for any reason - a newly virtualized application or a growing business initiative, perhaps - this is the time to consider blade servers as a cost-effective alternative to traditional rack servers. In most cases, you will find blade servers to be less expensive than rack servers for both the initial purchase as well as for long-term total cost of ownership (TCO).
Savvy IT professionals are finding that blade servers are less expensive than traditional rack servers for most new deployments, while also delivering improvements in agility, scalability and manageability. If your organization is deploying a new server farm or cluster for any reason - a newly virtualized application or a growing business initiative, perhaps - this is the time to consider blade servers as a cost-effective alternative to traditional rack servers. In most cases, you will find blade servers to be less expensive than rack servers for both the initial purchase as well as for long-term total cost of ownership (TCO).
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