Driven by low acquisition costs and ease of deployment, IT professionals have increasingly turned toward "scale-out" architectures, or "horizontal computing," using low-cost servers with four, or fewer, processors on each server system. This trend, which involves increasing capacity incrementally by adding smaller servers to the network, accelerated during the economic downturn of 2001-2003, when IT budgets were limited and IT managers were looking for new ways to add capacity to existing IT infrastructure. Now, volume servers continue to drive growth in the server market, as platforms for IT infrastructure, as well as for technical and commercial workloads.
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