The Business Drivers Met by Itanium Processor Development

Intel CEO Craig Barrett sums up the most immediate benefit that companies will see from implementing the Intel Itanium architecture in their businesses by pointing to the need to process immense chunks of data. As he puts it, “None of us can escape it because the business models—the customer bases—increasingly drive us to analyze more and more information.”

This ability to handle bigger databases with tremendous speed allows businesses to mine or analyze more and more data in a cost effective fashion. Arguably, the most urgent business management issue for large companies is how to really handle the huge databases that make up their product list, customer base, and order history. It's ...

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