AMD's server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments.

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This coupled with the fact that big businesses have to cope with increasing computing workloads in server virtualization environments and cloud computing, that soon disk storage will look outdated.

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We know that customers also frequently have mixed virtualization environments, and for years we have included the capability in the System Center tools to manage across these environments, including those offered by third-party companies such as VMware ESX.

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To help both virtualization and cloud environments, VMware also made a significant change to its licensing model, moving away from CPU core entitlements (VMware will still count processor sockets, though) to pooled vRAM entitlements.

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As the foundation of cloud computing, virtualization has drastically transformed IT environments.

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