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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Major manufacturer cites AMD processors’ energy efficiencies and performance for assisting organic growth through new product development.
Quicken Loans is well-known for exceptional customer service, delivered via quality employees and a superior IT infrastructure. To ensure continued success and meet future growth requirements, Quicken Loans implemented the AMD Opteron™ processor within a virtualization and a Business Intelligence environment to achieve dramatically improved performance levels with fewer servers and lower overall heat emissions and costs.
AMD technology helps the Italian stock exchange meet the demands of increasing trading volumes and a growing business, while allowing a seamless upgrade path to quad core computing.
MX’s proprietary SOLA® trading software running on AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems cuts message response times and supports business expansion.
A move to HP workstations and servers based on the 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processor has helped empower DreamWorks Animation SKG artists’ creativity when developing the characters, scenes and special effects behind its popular animated films.
With AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant servers, the Starz Entertainment Group saves substantially on content-packaging costs for its existing business, and has built a platform that will sustain future initiatives in emerging communications channels.
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.
Partners™ HealthCare improves their North Shore Medical Center's data center management with AMD Opteron™ processors, VMware virtual infrastructure software, and HP ProLiant blade servers, addressing concerns including energy consumption, server count, availability and cost.
AMD and AMD Validated Solutions (AVS) Help Rain Recording Offer Customers Highly Economical, Energy-Efficient Digital Audio Workstations featuring AMD Athlon™ processors and AMD Phenom™ processors.
Nivio launches revolutionary virtual desktop service based on AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers and Microsoft® Windows Server®.
Heartland Technology Solutions implements AMD-based presentation virtualization solution to reduce costs internally, drive revenue externally.
The world’s largest digital photo, a 16-billion-pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper fresco, is brought to life by HAL9000 using Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors.
The AMD Opteron™ processor's energy efficiency and exceptional price/performance help ensure SAS applications get to market on time and on budget.
CyberTrader® looks to AMD to help sharpen its competitive edge through enhanced speed, capacity and flexibility.
Allianz Global Investors implemented an AMD Opteron™ processor-based virtualization strategy to improve IT efficiency and application performance, and reduce costs.
The cost/performance and performance-per-watt benefits of the AMD Opteron™ processor helped VistaPrint realize massive cost savings: in addition to not having to build a new data center, the company is experiencing a marked reduction in power and cooling bills. With AMD, VistaPrint is also able to more easily and affordably scale to meet its customers’ needs.
ProQuest CSA is leveraging the AMD Opteron™ processor to conduct complex computing with fewer and much more efficient servers, thereby reducing power and cooling, as well as data center space requirements.
FTD, Inc. delivers improved and more affordable service to florists worldwide with the AMD Athlon™ processor.
The AMD Athlon™ Processor is at the heart of McDonald's McInternet project, which is providing access to the World Wide Web to residents of Brazil. Bridging the digital divide and driving customers to its restaurants, McInternet is now the largest private Internet network in Brazil.
STMicroelectronics' Asia Pacific Design Centre implemented a Sun Grid based on the AMD Opteron™ processor and Sun Fire™ servers to provide both 32- and 64-bit computing capabilities and improve the throughput for the company's 64-bit applications. The high I/O bandwidth provided by the solution also dramatically improves the overall performance of the STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Design Centre.
The AMD Opteron™ processor is helping Marathon Oil to improve oil and gas production. Specifically, AMD is processing seismic data up to four times faster and at one-third the cost all while managing increasing amounts of data and the growing complexity of problems to be solved.
Extensive internal benchmarking revealed that the AMD Opteron™ processor delivered superior performance and performance-per-watt - the latter of which was especially critical for keeping costs low. As such, AMD Opteron processor-based servers running current hits like the Lineage and "City of" series is providing the foundation for launching new games.
Toronto-based solution provider Scalar Decisions was selected to design, implement and manage a new, in-house system to establish a re-designed interactive Web site for CFL. Through its membership in AMD’s Commercial Systems Channel Program, Scalar was intimately familiar with the performance, performance-per watt-and energy efficiencies of the AMD Opteron™ processor and Sun Fire™ servers.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange migrated its largest trading interface and critical trading applications to 2-way Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based HP ProLiant® DL385 servers.
SIG, a highly regarded institutional brokerage/research provider, is experiencing a 40 percent reduction in data center power requirements and delivering increased performance by using AMD Opteron processors and AMD Athlon™ processors.
Since deploying AMD Opteron™ processors, arvato systems estimates it has reduce its total cost of ownership by 40 percent while more than doubling the speed of its SAP applications.
Since deploying the AMD Opteron™ processor-based Egenera BladeFrame systems, Commerzbank North America dramatically improved the reliability of its applications, increased its processing power, and alleviated availability and space concerns.
The AMD Opteron™ processor helped Layered Technologies offer unique services like 64-bit backwards compatibility to its customers. As a result, the company has attributed its triple growth and strong brand in part to AMD.
Learn how the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor with Direct Connect Architecture helped Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BCNEPA) realize the performance and optimization benefits of a virtualization solution.
Learn how Data Return created a highly available and flexible environment with outstanding price/performance and performance-per-watt gains, by implementing a virtualization solution based on AMD64 technology.
Learn how the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor helps digital media industry leaders dramatically increase the efficiency of transcoding massive files of content.
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.