As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life of existing data centers and designing ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, with Intel Micro architecture Nehalem, brings intelligent performance to the most trusted server architecture. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is the world's most adaptable server platform, adjusting performance and power usage in real time to meet the exact requirements of your computing workloads, while allowing manual adjustment for IT control.