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If your organization runs large business-critical database applications on expensive UNIX RISC systems, you may have felt stuck. Even as the percentage of enterprise workloads running on virtualized servers has exploded, you have faced a key question: Could industry-standard Intel architecture-based servers deliver the performance you'd need to consolidate your applications via virtualization?

This study proves that the answer is yes.

Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity. A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency states that data centers in the U.S. consume 4.5 billion kWh annually, or 1.5 percent of the country's total electrical consumption.

But virtualization can have a significant impact.