Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7100 Series-Based Server Yields 300% Improvement for Microsoft

Overview

The costs of goods often vary, depending on a wide range of factors, including dealers or stores, the foreign exchange rates of different geographies, taxes, and other factors. Microsoft Corporation's World Wide Licensing and Pricing (WWLP) group needs to understand those variations in order to price their products appropriately. But with a huge repository containing approximately 1.5 terabytes of data, producing reports was a time consuming, laborious process that often left the analysts little time to actually analyze data. That report used to take about two weeks to produce compared to ten minutes with the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 series-based server - not doing any analysis of it, simply getting the report together.