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

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 …

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