Next“IBM Information Management and Intel have partnered for ten years to deliver leading performance for our customers. Together, IBM DB2 9.5 and the Intel® Xeon® 7400 series processor have enabled the industry’s first enterprise relational database solution to achieve over one-million transactions per minute on an x86 server platform. Customers focused on energy-efficient XML deployments will benefit tremendously, with DB2 9.5 processing over 40% more data with only 85% of the power consumed when compared with previous generation server platforms.”
—Sal Vella, VP, Development, IBM Vice President, Development, Distributed Data Servers and Data Warehousing
“The release of Intel’s new Xeon® processor 7400 series is significant for our customers. We’ve worked closely with Intel and the open source community to ensure that Citrix XenServer and the Xen hypervisor take full advantage of the new features Intel’s processor brings to the virtualization market. Further, by deploying our spectrum of virtualization products — XenServer, XenApp, and XenDesktop — on server platforms based on Intel’s Xeon processor 7400 series, our customers will be able to take advantage of new levels of virtualization, performance and power management, while ultimately driving down their Total Cost of Ownership in the data center.”
—Lou Shipley, VP and General Manager, Xen Products Group, Citrix Systems
“Microsoft and Intel have worked together to optimize Hyper-V for Intel Virtualization Technology and support the upcoming Intel® Xeon® 7400 processor. We’re already seeing outstanding performance from our complimentary software and hardware, which together provide our customers with amazing capabilities.”
—Bob Muglia, Sr. Vice President, Microsoft Server and Tools Business
“The Intel Xeon processor 7400 is uniquely architected for demanding applications running on SQL Server 2008. The Intel Xeon processor 7400 series-based servers provide our mutual customers with amazing computing power for SQL Server 2008 without increasing footprint and power demands. In fact, our customers can expect 60% better price/performance running SQL Server 2008 on Intel Xeon 7400 series processor-based servers compared with previous generation four socket servers running SQL Server 2005”
—Ted Kummert, Corporate Vice President of the Data and Storage Platform Division, Microsoft Corp
“The combination of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 running on servers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series gives customers a competitive performance advantage when deploying virtualized applications in their data centers. Novell's early adoption of Intel's hardware-assisted virtualization technology continues to offer customers the best way to cut costs in their data center without sacrificing performance, reliability or security.”
—Carlos Montero-Luque, VP of product management for Open Platform Solutions at Novell
“Customers can expect broad gains from running Oracle products on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series. Oracle is a heavily multi-threaded application, so it can immediately take advantage of the additional cores and cache of the new Intel Xeon processor. The Intel Xeon processor 7400 series based platform should extend the performance and scalability of Oracle Database and Oracle Applications for our joint customers, while maintaining a stable power envelope.”
—Juan Loaiza, SVP Systems Technology, Oracle
“Parallels Virtuozzo Containers combined with servers built with the new Intel® Xeon® 7400 processor delivers the highest, near native virtualization performance for server and database consolidation with hi I/O requirements.”
—Serguei Beloussov, Parallels CEO
“With the release of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series, Intel is bringing new levels of performance and scalability to the datacenter. Testing combining the Xeon processor 7400 series with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and IBM System X has yielded record-setting performance results both for traditional, physical server deployments and virtual systems. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's virtualization capabilities and Intel's Xeon processor 7400 series deliver levels of performance previously only seen on physical systems. By incorporating advanced power management features within the platform, we've also jointly coupled this leading performance with compelling power efficiency.”
—Brian Stevens, CTO at Red Hat
“Innovative deployment options like virtualization are increasingly becoming the standard choice of SAP customers looking to optimize for scalability and TCO. SAP support for parallelism, and our close work with leading virtualization vendors coupled with new Intel Xeon 7400 series processors are specifically designed to support virtualization and possess better performance per watt than previous generations. This provides an ideal platform for running SAP ERP 6.0 and other SAP Business Suite applications in a virtualized environment.”
—Vishal Sikka, CTO, SAP AG
“At SAP we are very pleased that over 10,000 of our customers have moved to SAP ERP 6.0, and many of these customers run SAP solutions on Intel Xeon-based systems. We expect that the new Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series will raise substantially the number of users per server using the SAP SD Benchmark, lowering overall TCO. Also, our customers are asking for enhanced levels of virtualization to reduce testing, deployment and disaster recovery times, and with Intel's enhanced hardware-assisted virtualization in the 7400 series, we are delivering on that need. We value the relationship we have with Intel as a long-term customer and partner.”
—Mark Marcus, National vice president, Platform, SAP Americas
“Sun and Intel have been closely collaborating to take full advantage of new Intel silicon capabilities and maximize Java performance on Intel platforms. We are seeing further Java performance improvements with the new Intel Xeon processor 7400 series. The feedback we've received from the community of over six million Java developers tells us that having Sun and Intel work together to innovate and improve performance for their Java applications is vitally important and that they are delighted with the results we've achieved so far.”
—David Bryant, senior director of Java marketing at Sun
“Sun xVM Server and Intel's FlexMigration technology in the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series will together help deliver increased efficiencies and higher levels of performance in virtualized environments. By leveraging FlexMigration and the Sun xVM Ops Center management framework, customers will be able to perform live migration of running applications between existing and new hardware to help minimize disruptions and increase server utilization in datacenters.”
—Vijay Sarathy, senior director of marketing, xVM, Sun Microsystems
“As customers migrate to SAP ERP 6.0 and other SAP Business Suite applications, will believe they will experience significant benefits from servers based on the new Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series. The latest Intel platform will boast market-leading performance when used together with SAP ERP 6.0, providing power efficiency gains that will lead to substantial total cost of ownership advantages.”
—Martin Riedel, Senior VP and head of the Global Upgrade Office, SAP AG
“With the new Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 processor series and Virtual Iron’s latest v4.4 release, IT can continue to leverage virtualization in even more demanding production environments while supporting more virtual machines per physical server within the same space and power envelope.”
—Tony Asaro, Virtual Iron’s Chief Strategy Officer
“Intel’s new Xeon® processor 7400 series provide ideal platforms for our QuickTransit cross-platform virtualization solutions. By delivering up to 6 cores and 16MB of cache per system, Intel enables enterprise customers to consolidate larger numbers of legacy workloads through virtualization, thereby optimizing IT infrastructure, managing costs and minimizing risk. Using this latest generation of Intel processor, QuickTransit can run legacy Solaris/SPARC workloads many times faster than on the original legacy hardware, without the need for porting or recompilation.”
—Alasdair Rawsthorne, Founder and CTO of Transitive Corporation
“Through our work with Intel on optimizing Solaris for Intel's new Xeon processor 7400 series, we've been able to unlock even more capabilities and further improve the performance, reliability, power efficiency and virtualization capabilities of our respective technologies. Customers are taking note of the excellent performance and scalability Solaris offers on Xeon processors and we're looking forward to achieving even more strong results as we continue our collaboration with Intel on future platforms.”
—Jim McHugh, VP of data center software, Sun Microsystems
“With the release of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series, VMware and Intel continue to move virtualization forward, setting a new milestone for single-server core density, performance and scalability. VMware and Intel also lead in development of new virtualization usage models with our respective software and hardware platforms to increase datacenter resource utilization and maximize productivity.”
—Brian Byun, VMware, VP Global Partners & Eco-Systems