{"id":1753,"date":"2010-04-16T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2010\/04\/16\/forget-the-pre-historic-business-critical-means-windows\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:08:44","slug":"forget-the-pre-historic-business-critical-means-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/forget-the-pre-historic-business-critical-means-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Pre-Historic: Business Critical Means Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"
IDC recently released a analysis of the x86 server market “Business-Critical Workloads: Supporting Business-Critical: Computing with an Integrated Server Platform.”\u00a0 If you don’t have time to read the whitepaper, check out the ComputerWorld webcast covering this material here<\/a>.<\/p>\n What does the white paper show?\u00a0 Clearly, IT managers have realized that large, proprietary UNIX systems cost their businesses more all up (support, staff, hardware, other).\u00a0 That realization shows itself in IDC’s numbers – shipment growth rates for these big RISC dinosaurs is flat or declining while the rest of the technology world continues to expand.\u00a0 In many data centers UNIX systems are already gone.\u00a0 Archeological expeditions below the raised floor can yield reminders of their existence – strange LVD SCSI cables and nutty looking power connectors.<\/p>\n “BP workloads are progressively shifting from mainframes and host servers based upon RISC and EPIC (Itanium-based) architectures to x86 servers”<\/em><\/strong>
\n(BP = Business Processing)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n