Review 2008

AMD a lansat patru noi procesoare Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE dedicate segmentului business, fiind optimizate pentru mediile ERP pretentioase. Acestea sunt disponibile pentru serverele cu 4 sau 8 procesoare.

Cele patru modele Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE - 2360 SE (2.5 GHz), 2358 SE (2.4 GHz), 8360 SE (2.5 GHz), and 8358 SE (2.4 GHz) - sunt disponibile in cantitati suficiente si au stabilit noi recorduri in benchmark-urile dedicate sectorului business.

"For many customers, the concept of ‘scaling up' a datacenter has meant a sizeable financial investment in new hardware to gain satisfactory performance during peak workloads," said Patrick Patla, director, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. "Today, the performance benefits of the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE processor built on AMD's Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport™ technology can help IT managers improve application performance and scalability of memory and data intensive workloads at a fraction of the cost. This is a significant benefit for customers looking to consolidate their datacenter or those interested in moving from proprietary hardware to x86 servers for mission critical software, such as database applications."

As the industry continues to rally around "scaling up" datacenters, Microsoft is at the forefront of this discussion to help ensure that mid-market and enterprise customers seeking to improve server utilization can take full advantage of 64-bit environments, such as the x86-based SMP servers based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, for complex databases including those in consolidation and virtualization environments.

"A flexible and scalable datacenter that meets the dynamic demands of doing business in a global economy is more important than ever for organizations of all sizes," said Dan Neault, general manager, SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. "As we prepare for the general availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, we are excited about our work with AMD to provide our mutual customers a state of the art data platform for their business critical workloads such as ERP, Web, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing."