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xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide
2.7 Application solutions
With the x455 in the IA-64 environment, you are ready to deploy even larger
implementations of enterprise solutions.
As companies' performance demands grow, 64-bit technology becomes an
increasingly attractive option, due to increased memory addressability and true
parallel architecture. There are a number of ways the x455 can be deployed in
specific application solution environments. These include:
Database applications
Business logic
e-Business and security transactions
In-house developed compute-intensive applications
Science and technology
Figure 2-1 xSeries 450-based solutions
2.7.1 Database applications
Sixteen-way x455 configurations can be used as database servers and
application servers providing a high-performance reliable platform. These
configurations require an external storage enclosure or SAN, depending on the
size of the database that is driven by the number of users.
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