Sitting at the heart of a great SMB server is an Intel processor. Offering legendary reliability and value, Intel offers a diverse lineup of quad-core and dual-core processors designed to meet the performance and efficiency needs of your SMB customers. Offering a server platform featuring an Intel server processor means you offer your customers a highly flexible, scalable computing infrastructure that can grow and change with their business.

 Big Solutions for Small Businesses

It is no secret that visionary small businesses want to prepare for growth. The best way to accomplish this is with a real, reliable Intel server platform. Why should your customers make the leap to an Intel® Xeon® UP server system instead of a desktop platform acting as a server? Stepping up to a real server earns your customers essential server class features for improved uptime, plus server OS validation, and a superior level of warranty and support. As a provider of Intel technology, you know that your SMB customers deserve a unique solution; whether they are preparing for gradual growth or require a system that can help their business move to a whole new level.

 Step Up To Superior Reliability and Server-Class Features

For your customers, an Intel® Xeon® processor is the first step toward a platform enabling superior reliability and many other server-class capabilities and features. As you may know, our customers can step up to an Intel Xeon processor from a comparable desktop CPU for little to no additional cost. Encourage your small business customers to make the move to essential server class features with competitive entry-level UP processor platforms from Intel. They'll not only experience the reliability and performance advantages of a true server platform, they'll also enjoy significant flexibility for growth.
Use these Facts to Show Your Customers the Real Business Advantages of Stepping Up to Quad-Core

 Why Choose a "Real Server"?

Server platforms offer some compelling advantages over desktop processor-based and other business computing alternatives. This short presentation summarizes the advantages of a server in terms your small and medium-sized business customers can appreciate. Use this video in your sales efforts to showcase the advantages of stepping up to “Real Servers” featuring an Intel® Xeon® processor.



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 Intel® Server Processors for SMB

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series With today's competitive and budget pressures, your SMB customers are interested in getting the maximum value and return from their resources. Server solutions based on Intel® Xeon® processors deliver powerful business capabilities at affordable prices, giving your SMB customers the flexibility they need to reach new customers, increase their revenue and achieve their business goals. New 2-socket Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series-based servers deliver new levels of performance for business processes, across a wide range of business workloads, including application servers, e-mail servers, Web servers and more. Performance and energy Efficiency Advantages for Your Customers: Performance: Up to 25 percent better performance than previous generation quad-core1 Up to 2x better performance than dual-core2 Up to 5x increased performance over single-core3 Energy efficiency: Up to 38 percent improvement in performance per watt vs. previous generation4 3 GHz quad-core at 80W Lower idle power reduces system power Learn more about the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series The Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series is the industry's first quad-core processor for dual-processor (DP) servers and workstations. Built on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, these processors deliver industry leading performance and virtualization, and offer new levels of energy efficiency to help reduce cooling and density challenges. The Intel Xeon processor 5300 series is Intel's premier solution for the growing computing and data needs of many business-critical applications, and provides the most headroom (threads and performance) for virtualized server environments of any dual-processor standard high volume server platform. Combined with the Intel® 5000 chipset family and Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory technology, new Intel Xeon processor 5300 series-based platforms deliver breakthrough performance with better power efficiency, compared to the previous Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series in the same power envelope. Learn more about the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series

Intel® Xeon® Processor 3200 Series Built for single/uni-processor (UP) servers, the Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series is the world's first mainstream quad-core UP server processor—delivering a new level of energy-efficient performance. Based on the innovative Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and optimized for low power, quad-core, 64-bit computing, this processor is ideal for low-cost, high-performance servers and compute nodes. Combined with the Intel® 3000 chipset family and ECC DDR2 memory technology, Intel Xeon processor 3200 series-based platforms deliver leading performance compared to other single processor systems. Platforms based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 and 3200 Series make it easy for small businesses to get the reliability, availability and serviceability needed for server environments, at an economical cost. Enable your customers to experience better applications performance and performance per watt with the Intel Xeon processor 3200 series, developed on Intel Core microarchitecture. Learn more about the Intel® Xeon® Processor 3200 Series

Intel® Xeon® Processor 3000 Sequence The Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 series—designed for single/uni-processor (UP) servers—delivers new levels of energy-efficient performance thanks to the innovative Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, optimized for low-power, dual-core, 64-bit computing. The Intel Xeon processor 3000 series is ideal for first time small business server computing needs. Combined with the Intel® S3000/S3200 chipset family and ECC DDR2 memory technology, new Intel Xeon processor 3000/3200 series-based platforms deliver up to 3 times the performance and 3.5 times the performance/watt of previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processors. Platforms based on the Intel Xeon processor 3000 series make it simple for small businesses to get the reliability, availability and serviceability needed for server environments at an economical cost. All of this with the industry leading performance and performance per watt of the revolutionary Intel Core microarchitecture. Learn more about the Intel® Xeon® Processor 3000 Sequence