Expect the Intel Xeon Processors 5500 Series to live up to its billing as Storwize Inc. has optimized their STN-OS operating system software to fully leverage the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series powerful hardware capabilities. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling, and administrative costs.

Double-digit storage capacity growth and the current economic climate are forcing IT organizations to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of their entire infrastructure. IT organizations are looking to data reduction solutions to reduce their primary and secondary system costs and shortage of electricity for power and cooling, as well physical data center space. But, customers’ biggest concern is the impact data reduction may have on storage and application performance.

“Storwize takes advantage of the intelligent performance features in the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series to deliver advanced capacity optimization solutions,” said Christos Georgiopoulos, general manager Intel’s Developer Relations Division. “We’re excited to work with leading software vendors like Storwize to bring the benefits of these processors to a broad set of customers.”

(Source) Press