The Foundation for
Better Business Intelligence
Big data is changing the way organizations
make business decisions. To transform
petabytes of data into strategic insights,
organizations need systems that can
quickly handle their current data-
demanding workloads, in addition to those
yet to be developed. By using fast, reliable
servers that are optimized for the Intel®...
Xeon® processor E7 v2 family, you can
process and analyze vast quantities of data
in real-time, extract value, make smart
business decisions, and gain competitive
advantage. The Intel Xeon processor E7
v2 family offers leadership performance
that allows you to outpace the speed of
today’s business, the scalability to handle
virtually any workload, and advanced reli-
ability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
features for maximum system uptime.
Elevated Performance for Faster
Time-to-Insight Today’s data centers require top-of-
the-line performance to handle critical
workloads for business intelligence (BI),
business analytics, virtualization, and
traditional large enterprise databases,
such as those for customer relationship
management (CRM), enterprise resource
planning (ERP), and supply chain manage-
ment (SCM). The Intel Xeon processor
E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 product families
use native In-Memory analytics to bring
substantial amounts of data to the proces-
sors’ CPUs, significantly reducing latency
and leading to faster data analysis.
With up to 15 cores and 30 threads per
socket and 25% more cache, the Intel
Xeon processor E7 v2 family delivers up to
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double the average performance of previ-
ous versions (see Figure 1). Three times
the memory capacity of previous versions
also enables advanced BI and analytics with
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their transaction-intensive workloads.
To learn more about how processor
performance can boost BI capabilities,
please see the Intel® Xeon® E7 processor
v2 family solution brief.
The Reliability to Handle
Mission-Critical Systems
A company’s systems—especially for
demanding workloads—are only as good
as they are dependable. Even a little
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FIGURE 1: INCREASEPERFORMANCETO ACCELERATE CRITICAL BUSINESSPROCESSESAND ANALYTICS
® ®
2.5 Intel Xeon
Processor E7-4890 v2
1.0 2.4
better 2.0 2.3 (4P/60C/120T, 2.80 GHz)
2.1
to ® ®
1.5 1.8 Intel Xeon
Normalized1.7 is Processor E7-4870
Higher 1.0 (4P/40C/80T, 2.40 GHz)
1.0
0.5 Relative performance improvement. Source:
Intel internal measured results as of
November 2013.
0 tpm Ratio Ratio GB/s
tps NOTE: tps = transactions per second;
Warehouse Commercial HPC Memory
Brokerage tpm = transactions per minute
OLTP General Application Bandwidth
OLTP Database Purpose Throughput
Database
The Foundation for
Better Business Intelligence
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FIGURE 2: UPTIME EVOLUTION
IBM AIX/Power
Suse SLES/x86
Windows Server 2008 R2/x86
Red Hat RHEL/x86
Oracle Solaris/SPARC
78%
74%
75%
75%
59%
2013 2012 2009
UPTIME =
+99.99%
0
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
Unplanned downtime (hours/year)
3.5
downtime adds up: ITIC’s May/June 2013
Technology Trends and Deployment
Survey polled 600 businesses worldwide.
Of those surveyed, 63% of the large
enterprises with 1,000 or more workers
reported that one hour of downtime costs
their business from $101,000 to $400,000
per hour, exclusive of any litigation or
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compliance penalties.
According to industry analysts, more and
more enterprises are migrating their mission-
critical systems from proprietary RISC-based
platforms
Read the full Product Brief
Intel® Xeon® Processor
E7-8800/4800/2800 v2
Product Families
Data Center.