AMD bangs virtual green drum

Posted on June 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pm to iTNews by Paul Hales

AMD once had 135 servers crunching data for its Austin Texas HQ. Now, having virtualised the lot using VMware’s virtualisation software it has cut that number to just seven.

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