và hàng đầu cung cấp các giải pháp phần mềm và hỗ trợ dựa trên Itanium 15 giải pháp. Microsoft là một thành viên của Liên minh giải pháp Itanium. Năm 2006, IDC đã báo cáo về sự sẵn có của khả năng mở rộng các máy chủ chạy hệ điều hành Windows: Quá trình chuyển đổi được xây dựng trên một thế hệ mới của sản phẩm phần cứng và phần mềm sẽ cho kết quả cả về quy mô | and by leading software and solution providers in support of Itanium-based Microsoft is a member of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. In 2006 IDC reported on the availability of scalable servers running the Windows operation system The process of IT transformation built on a new generation of hardware and software products will result in both scale-up and scale-out server deployments. In some cases customers will choose to link multiple servers with clustering or grid software to support a given workload. In others the processing power of larger scalable servers will be needed to support large single system image SSI databases or to ensure the highest levels of availability and manageability for mission-critical applications. IDC worldwide server data shows that servers using Windows generated about . 16 billion in customer revenue in 2004. Based on IDC s latest annual forecast the Windows-based server segment is expected to grow to 23 billion in 2009 and to become the largest single operating system-defined segment of the worldwide server market. Windows technology now runs on servers across all three categories of the worldwide server market as follows Millions of units are sold annually in the volume server market which comprises servers priced at less than 25 000. Most of these units are 1-way or 2-way systems. Tens of thousands of units are sold annually in the midrange and enterprise server market which comprises servers priced from 25 000 to 499 999. Most of these units are 2-way to 8-way servers. Many hundreds of units are sold in the high-end enterprise server market which comprises servers priced at 500 000 or more. Most of these units are larger than 8-way servers. With the entire computing ecosystem in the worldwide server market moving to 64-bit and multi-core processor technologies the capabilities of underlying server hardware based on new processor technology to support mission-critical enterprise workloads have improved and this .
