Benchmarks can generate passionate debate, but from time-to-time one undeniably hits the mark.
 

Yesterday our friends at VMware blogged about a new performance record with the largest SPECweb®2005 score to date on a 16 core server.  Run on an HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with four Quad-Core AMD Opteron^™ processors, the benchmark illustrates how advancements in hardware-assisted virtualization are helping make it the application of choice for IT managers looking for record-setting performance on high-demanding workloads or with high-traffic websites.

Both of which bring to mind cloud computing – something we’re talking about in San Francisco today at the IDC Cloud Computing Forum.  If it’s not already, the cloud needs to be on your radar.

If you haven’t seen VMware’s blog on this benchmark, read it here.
 

Well done!

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