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Every time new technology is delivered, tech refresh is highlighted as a way to save money or gain a business advantage on your competition.  It’s no different with the launch of the Intel® Xeon® Series 5500 server processor.  Many benchmarks show the new Xeon Series 5500 processor is twice as fast as the previous generation Xeon 5400 processor.  With its energy efficient design the Xeon Series 5500, when compared to 4-year old server technology, can deliver a full ROI in 8 months.

What’s different today is the availability of tools that can help you estimate the ROI for server refresh in your IT environment.  The “Xeon Estimator” tool, designed jointly by Intel and Alinean enables you to perform simple ROI analysis on you environment using many “default” values, or a deep dive analysis by allowing you to set specific values on dozens of important enterprise infrastructure variables.  The tool creates a full ROI analysis report based on the specifics of your environment.

But you don’t have to take my word for it.  Jeffrey Burt of eweek.com wrote an article, “Intel Online Calculator Measures Server Performance, Efficiency” describing the Xeon Estimator tool, as well as several other tools available to measure your return on investment around technology refresh. 

Click here to view and use the Xeon Estimator tool.  And feel free to give feedback via this blog; the good and the areas of improvement.