Mohawk Industries, a leading producer and distributor of flooring products and solutions, faced a growing challenge as the number of servers dedicated to applications began to skyrocket. Faced with mounting management costs, increasing deployment lead times, and intractable data backup issues, Mohawk sought to consolidate its operations. Mohawk deployed a sophisticated virtual server solution that today enables the company to host dozens of key applications on a pair of IBM xSeries 440 servers - each equipped with 16 Intel Xeon processors MP - to ensure responsiveness and scalability. The virtualized environment enables Mohawk to dedicate system resources to each application, ensuring reliable operation while reducing the number of deployed servers.
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