[June 19, 2006] x86 RULES THE ROOST (assists in data warehousing and Business Intelligence) Tweet (India Business Insight Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) x86 Servers are growing in popularity amongst medium businesses (MB). It assists in data warehousing and Business Intelligence. It also assists in faster business-related decision making. x86 servers are reliable, accessible and have serviceability, scalability, performance and energy saving features. Medium businesses have increasing requirements of servers and storage and dual-socket and dual-processor servers due to resource intensive information technology applications. X86 servers have low initial investments and maintenance costs. x86 servers can be used in banking applications and in number crunching requirements using grid computing. They also support Windows and Linux and adhere to open standards. The impact of the server is best seen in manufacturing and engineering industries, automobiles and auto- ancillaries, Health and life sciences and information technology (IT) BPO/ITeS sectors. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]