Quoting from InformationWeek:
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Virtualization has thrown us for a loop, quite honestly,” said Shannon Poulin, Intel enterprise marketing manager, last month at an IDC conference on virtualization. Two years ago, less than 5% of the data center had been virtualized. By 2010, Intel projects that 25% of enterprise data center servers will be running in virtualization mode. Server design is trying to catch up with the trend, Poulin said.
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“The virtualized environment is the Wild West when it comes to performance benchmarking,” he noted.
“I think we’re only in the infancy” of designing servers for virtualized operation, he added.
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Intel’s Poulin said future Intel motherboards for four-way servers will contain a “Flex” feature to assist in the migration of virtual machines across different servers.
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Poulin said Intel’s second generation virtualization hooks will let a virtual machine migrate across all Intel chips and breach the Intel/AMD barrier…
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