Whether you need to squeeze the most capacity from the resources on hand, smartly grow capacity to meet the demands of a growing customer base, or keep up with the demands of an expanding data stream, the combination of AMD Opteron™ processors and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 provides the versatile, energy-efficient and robust foundation you need to grow your business.

Cost Effective Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Gain the flexibility that can help you do more with server infrastructure—securely and with low energy usage. Together, the AMD Opteron processor and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 are an operationally efficient computing platform, optimized to help you get the most from server and client resources.

Servers based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 powered by AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect Architecture deliver the performance to handle memory-intensive virtualization with low overhead—and low energy consumption.

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Versatile web and application serving
Add the control needed to meet the volatile demands of today's always-online business. AMD Opteron processor-based servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 are designed to handle the growing demands of the ever-increasing world of users and transactions.

This resource-smart infrastructure can help you do more with server, budget, and staff resources. Finally, these platforms offer an easily managed solution that can help save staff time, help reduce total costs, and ensure high availability.

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• Find out how start up Nivio runs its virtual desktop service with AMD Opteron processor-based servers and Microsoft Windows Server

Capacity-rich data management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Achieve the scale required to turn mountains of data into more insightful and valuable intelligence. With unique optimizations designed to increase throughput, AMD Opteron processors offer the ultimate performance for memory- and data-intensive applications. When they are powering servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, they deliver large memory footprints and offer outstanding processing bandwidth due to their high capacity. Plus, they offer a readily scalable solution to manage the ever-growing universe of data and deliver more insight, faster.

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• Find out how Russia’s Baltika Breweries Links it ERP Database using AMD Opteron processor-based servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2008
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