The Essential Guide to Optimizing OLTP Performance

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. We supply the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software—the building blocks of the worldwide digital economy. Intel's mission is to delight our customers, employees, and shareholders by relentlessly delivering the platform and technology advancements that become essential to the way we work and live. Around the globe, businesses are running nearly 40 million Intel servers built on open standards. Using Intel Core microarchitecture, businesses can deploy innovative, high performance and cost-effective solutions to help deliver more IT capacity at a lower total cost of ownership. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.