The Charlotte Observer Looks to Make Headlines With Intel Multi-Core Processors and Virtual Iron

Overview

The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's largest daily circulation newspaper, needed to reduce data center costs while improving the overall responsiveness of mission-critical applications. Legacy systems running on expensive, proprietary hardware were no longer meeting their needs in terms of cost and performance. The Charlotte Observer put both Intel and Virtual Iron to the test by conducting a series of system trials that produced dramatic performance gains. Industry-standard servers running Linux on Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors 5300 series with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and Virtual Iron virtualization and management software dramatically outperformed proprietary platforms in terms of price and performance. Application performance improved greatly in the test of Intel multi-core servers with Intel VT and Virtual Iron.