[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The Weather Channel, the only national all-weather cable
network providing 24-hour-a-day weather coverage to more than 87
million homes in the U.S., is building on a current strategy of
running its IT infrastructure on open source technology and has
migrated to Intel Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers
from proprietary RISC-based platforms.“The Weather Channel has reduced physical server count by 48
percent, while server utilization has increased by more than 50
percent, and the time required to deploy applications on the
servers was shortened from two days to two hours. As a result, The
Weather Channel also cut its three-year maintenance contract costs
to one-tenth of the costs associated with RISC-based servers. The
Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers now provide double
the performance of the previous platforms at an overall solution
cost of 75 percent less…”