AMD presents enterprise solutions and AMD roadmap at IDC CIO event

AMD, in conjunction with its strategic technology partner, Sun Microsystems, is addressing enterprise solutions essential for surviving the current economy.

According to Kadir, in today's challenging IT environment and the current state of the global economy, it becomes even more imperative for CIO's to identify solutions that are cost efficient, forward looking and which address the customers' needs.

AMD is at the forefront of helping customers deal with today's pressures of energy costs and demands, and has long steered its product development towards energy-efficient microprocessor designs that help reduce server power consumption and increase efficiencies in server utilization.

In 2006, AMD along with other technology leaders, many of whom compete in the marketplace, began the journey to form The Green Grid consortium. The non-profit gathers together all parties interested in lowering consumption of power in datacenters around the globe. The consortium today has grown to well over 100 members, including companies from the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.

Dr. Gaith Kadir, General Manager Middle East and North Africa, AMD, said:

"In the current economic environment, datacenter managers are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs without compromising the latest features or performance."

"Our new AMD Opteron™ HE series processor offers superior performance-per-watt and cost-efficiencies for a wide range of configurations. In the second quarter AMD plans to take energy-efficiency to the next level in introducing even lower ACP processors for the unique demands of cloud computing environments," he added.

Across all markets, AMD educates end-users on its multi-core processing technology that allow users to be energy-efficient without having to compromise on high-performance computing

Waleed Hosny, global systems engineer manager, Sun Microsystems - Middle East and North Africa commented, "Our strategic partnership with AMD has allowed Sun Microsystems to combine industry expertise from both companies which is essential to offer businesses superior solutions. In this challenging time, companies are looking for efficient utilization of their IT assets and cost cutting solutions with long term benefits. Our servers powered with AMD Opteron processor will enable businesses to address the current financial and environmental challenges through improved performance, scalability and energy efficient product line."

The new AMD Opteron HE processor is designed to address a vast segment of the business computing market that must maximize performance during peak hours while managing the energy costs during idle and low-utilization hours. Server platforms based on these new AMD Opteron HE processors can help cut energy costs without compromising any of the processor features of the standard power options.