Intel claims that 80 percent of the Global 100 corporations have chosen Itanium-based servers for mission-critical applications. One example is the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which spent 18 months testing a Fujitsu PrimeQuest server running a Linux/Itanium 9300 environment, and finally switched off its mainframe last month.In the process, the Exchange saw a whopping 600-fold performance gain, making it comparable to the London and New York Stock Exchanges, noted Kirk Skaugen, vice president, Intel Architecture group and general manager of the datacenter group, at the Tukwila launch event.

via HP Launches First Quad-Core Itanium Systems — ServerWatch.com.