Weak global demand for PC DRAM chips still weighed on Samsung's push for a recovery, although it responded to increased orders for server and mobile DRAM and hastened migration to the 30-nanometer and below process.

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Most organizations are either preparing for or in the early stages of a migration to the newest Microsoft server platform.

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Cloud economics, including server cost, resiliency, scalability, and product lifespan, are promoting migration of workloads across servers, both inside the data center and across data centers (even centers in different geographic areas).

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Wachovia analyst Phillip Rueppel says the beta version of Microsoft's Hyper-V isn't wowing customers because it lacks some critical features, such as so-called live migration, the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they're running.

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