It uses standard Internet protocols, which means it can take advantage of the many server farms around the world that offer up Web pages.

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With Hyper-V, the benefit is that your IT organization can use their existing knowledge, server infrastructure, and applications in a virtualized environment while taking advantage of the efficiencies the technology provides.

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Now Intel is combining its cost advantage over AMD and embrace of cooler chips to take back the high-end server business.

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The company is putting its advantage to work first where it can do the most good: in the lucrative market for server and notebook processors.

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Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.

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