by Jon Brodkin
The $1.25 billion Intel/AMD settlement announced Thursday could improve competition in the server hardware market and solve some lingering problems related to server virtualization, analysts say.
Today, a virtualization technology known as live migration lets customers move workloads from one physical server to another, but only if both servers contain processors from the same chip maker, according to Forrester analyst James Staten. “If you look at the virtualization instruction sets that have been implemented by AMD and Intel, they are incompatible with each other,” Staten says. “If you build a virtualization pool and do live migration from one system to another, it has to be all Intel, or it has to be all AMD.”
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