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IBM had a credit card processor client with more than 4,700 servers spread across 10 data centers. IBM did an analysis and found that the servers were being underutilized. IBM emploted VMware and Intel technology to create a virtualization platform that consolidated servers and lowered the time and cost of administration.

How is performance on virtualized servers compared to physical servers? The truth is 95 percent of production databases can be supported as well or better in a virtualized environment than on dedicated physical servers, and at much lower cost.