From ITPRO.CO.UK:
BMW is also set to switch 1,000 servers to the yet to be released Nehalem EX. For the refresh of two- and four-socket Xeon platform servers, the firm compared EX servers to other suppliers.
“From that, what we got is a smaller energy footprint of four socket with Nehalem than with the existing platform,” he said.
He added the EX lets BMW double its virtualisation ratio, from 10 to 15 virtual machines per server to 20 to 30.
“We think we will order bigger servers in future years as virtualisation is key for our data centre as we have the same power problems,” as faced by many, he said, adding that virtualiation and other efficiencies with Nehalem EX cuts consumption by a third – saving 100,000 euros a year on power use alone.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/617215/bmw-saves-with-nehalem-ep-and-ex
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