When it comes to the IT needs of today's businesses, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture offer a compelling solution. They deliver industry-leading performance within a consistent footprint and thermal envelopes.AMD Opteron processors also enable stable, long-term server and workstation solutions with industry-leading performance and energy efficiency. They're designed to simplify your IT management - now and in the future.Featuring AMD Virtualization technology with Rapid Virtualization Indexing, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide a balanced approach to improve virtualization efficiency, enabling more virtual machines to run per server for server consolidation and improved manageability. Increased performance for many virtual workloads allows for a higher performing, more flexible virtual environments with little or no performance compromise. AMD-V extended migration provides full live migration compatibility from single-core through quad-core processor solutions enabling a more reliable, more adaptable IT environment.Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to deliver industry-leading power efficiency, thanks to enhanced AMD PowerNow! These innovations are designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), data center power needs, and cooling costs by lowering the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver performance-on-demand capabilities for optimum performance-per-watt and power savings and optimize performance and power to match the compute workloads of each core, minimizing processor heat and energy consumption.By leveraging AMD's common core strategy and same socket technology, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to minimize changes to your software and data center infrastructure to protect your IT investment and simplify IT management. AMD's common core strategy eases technology transitions, can reduce maintenance costs, and helps preserve your IT software image by allowing for fewer upgrade disruptions. Same socket technology enables seamless hardware upgrades by maintaining consistent thermal envelopes across multiple CPU generations to help hardware longevity and performance per watt, while easing facilities planning. AMD plans include a stable consistent roadmap and well-timed transitions to match true enterprise environments and help minimize your IT TCO.