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Article: PCI-Express on the server fast track.(peripheral component interconnect)
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- Network World
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- December 20, 2004
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Byline: JENNIFER MEARS
As high-speed interconnects and virtualization software make their way into enterprise data centers, IT managers need to take a close look at how their servers are keeping pace.
Experts say that in many cases corporate users will find that servers are not taking full advantage of new technologies because of limitations in the system PCI and PCI-X bus, the I/O slot where servers hook into peripherals such as network and storage devices. The parallel architecture of today's PCI technology limits the bandwidth and throughput available to move data in and out of servers.
Intel, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft and others have been ...