Real-time business intelligence is a priority for companies across all industries, from healthcare to retail and telecommunications, among others. The need to quickly extract actionable insights from vast amounts of data is driving demand for new in-memory computing and big data analytics technologies. Considering both current and future demand for in-memory computing, Gartner estimates that revenues in this market will exceed $95 billion by the end of 2018, with at least 50% of large corporations adopting in-memory computing to facilitate digital business strategies.
The Intel Xeon E7 v3 processor family enables consumers to securely process and analyze massive datasets in memory systems for faster decision-making and improved operational efficiency, giving businesses a competitive edge.
New features include:
• With 20 new world performance records across a wide range of mission-critical applications, the new processor family achieves an average performance improvement of 40% compared to the previous generation.
• The processor family offers up to six times (6x) improvement in enterprise application performance for in-memory transactional workloads optimized with the new Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX).
• With up to 18 cores, a 20% increase in cores compared to the previous generation, and up to 45 megabytes of last-level cache, this family of processors can process up to 70% more analytical support sessions per hour.
• The product family offers up to ten times more (10x) performance per dollar and at the same time up to 85% less total cost of ownership compared to alternative RISC architectures by reducing the cost of hardware acquisition, power and cooling.
• The processors support configurations of up to 32 sockets6 with support for the industry's largest memory capacity per socket7 (8-socket systems are capable of supporting up to 12 terabytes of DDR3 or DDR4 memory technologies).
• New security and reliability capabilities, including improved cryptographic performance via the latest Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI), as well as additional microarchitectural enhancements. Intel® Run Sure Technology, a unique set of reliability, availability, and usability (RAS) features found in the Intel Xeon E78 processor family, is enhanced with new features designed to further ensure “five nines” (99.999%) availability for mission-critical applications.
• The family of products includes 12 processor models, including optimized multi-segment processors such as the two high-frequency models, designed for a subtype of database applications that require the fastest cores available.
