One of the best sources of relevant information in the IT purchasing process is the case study, which offers real-world descriptions, histories, and evaluations of specific technology implementations.
Many of today's critical IT challenges are consistent across different enterprises. IT professionals often seek to share the conclusions they have drawn. Through case studies, you can turn their experiences to your immediate benefit.
Here you can find articles demonstrating exactly how AMD's breakthrough technologies have helped transform business processes, solve business problems, and realize business goals.
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Featured Customer Case Studies
BAA avoided having to expand its current data center or build a new one by standardizing on HP ProLiant DL585 and DL385 Opetron™ processor-based servers for Microsoft® Windows® Server and other business-critical applications. This strategy also delivered computing, hosting, electrical power, and cooling efficiencies.
With three hundred AMD Opteron™ processor-based IBM eServer® 326's powering its computing grid, Chevron can process depth-imaging data up to seven times faster, helping to convert potential reserves into productive, commercial wells.
Volume Licensing Business Tools and Analytics Group
Microsoft Volume Licensing Business Tools and Analytics Group was able to achieve and estimated $27 million in savings over six month period by taking advantage of 64-bit features of AMD Opteron™ processor and 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The Group was able to achieve a 99% improvement in analysis time and generate price quotes in minutes rather than hours.
SingTel, a telecom provider with unmatched reach throughout the Asia Pacific region, found that AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers drastically reduced the time it takes to analyze data, while ensuring a smooth transition to 64-bit applications in SingTel's EXPAN data centers.
European global search engine company Exalead chose AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 servers running Linux to power its Internet search technologies and to host a 2-billion-page index with innovative features.
When faced with the rigorous demands of reliably processing millions of searches successfully on their mission-critical production environment, Sabre and their hosting partner EDS turned to AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 servers.
VeriSign® transitioned to four-way servers powered by AMD Opteron™ processors which was critical in enabling VeriSign to manage more than 14 billion Internet and e-mail interactions, three billion telephony interactions and $100 million worth of e-commerce transactions every day while maintaining its very high service level agreements.
Weather.com, with peak loads of 70 million page views per day, replaced its existing servers with half the number of AMD Operton™-based servers and migrated its Oracle weather database. As a result, Weather.com reduced infrastructure costs while improving response times and rising in site Nielsen/Netratings to number nine.
Microsoft Treasury
Managing $60 billion of financial assets and the foreign currency exposure, Microsoft Treasury mitigated portfolio exposure reducing the amount of time required to run its risk analysis software. Adding AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers running Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 x64, managers experienced a 325% increase in overall system performance.
Featured Customer Success Stories
Learn how Sun Fire systems with the AMD Opteron™ processor allowed Trader Media Group to manage its 40 percent year-on-year growth in business as well as handle an additional 10 million web queries per month.
The ASIC design team of network specialist Ciena was faced with the challenge of increasing the production schedule of its upcoming chip. Learn how the implementation of 30 AMD Opteron™ processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers delivered results and met tightened manufacturing deadlines using less power and rack space as their previous enterprise license system.
The aircraft manufacturing industry is highly competitive, with customer demand requiring that successive generations of aircraft provide greater efficiencies and improved performance. Learn how and AMD Opteron processor-based solution provided Unicamp with a 25 percent reduction in the total time required to compile the data generated by their software codes.
Learn how AMD helped Friendster, a leading social networking site on the Internet, experience a threefold overall performance increase with AMD64 technology, eliminating previous scalability issues.
Learn how QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services, experienced dramatic performance improvements after investing in over 800 AMD Opteron processor-based servers for its data center.
Learn how Magma® Software, which is faced with the exploding demand for feature-rich electronic devices in the consumer and industrial markets, is experiencing a 5X productivity jump by using AMD Opteron processor-based systems for 64-bit computing.
In the highly competitive 3D animation market, Luminetik chose an AMD Opteron processor-based solution to power its 3D animation studio. Luminetik is experiencing a more stable solution, and is able to render animations 14 times faster than on non-AMD64 systems.
Affordable Internet Services Online, Inc. (AISO) provides Internet solutions that are 100 percent solar-powered. Its previous x86-based web hosting systems were requiring extra solar panels to power the processors and elaborate cooling systems to keep them running. Within six months of implementing the AMD Opteron™ processor, AISO has seen an increase in performance while reducing the overall energy needed.
Northeast Utilities uses server and desktop systems powered by AMD. Watch this video to see and hear how AMD technology simplifies IT for this Fortune 500 diversified energy company.
Bell Helicopter's IT team was faced with expiring workstation leases on close to 250 workstations that serve the company's critical CAD/CAM/CAE engineering and product design teams. Bell's IT leaders wanted to leverage the opportunity to implement a competitive design and time-to-market performance advantage in order to gain long-term strategic benefit. Learn why Bell selected an IBM platform based on the AMD Opteron™ processor which is now delivering impressive results.
When faced with the rigorous demands of reliably processing millions of searches successfully on their mission-critical production environment, Sabre and their hosting partner EDS turned to AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 servers.