Intel Xeon Processor E7 v4 Product Family Accelerates Data and Business Innovation

With the dramatic increase in data volume and variety, enterprises across transportation, finance, manufacturing and beyond now have unprecedented opportunities to pursue innovation and enhance services and customer experiences.

Particularly significant is the ability to convert vast amounts of critical business data and unstructured data into timely actionable insights. According to actual research, enterprises that leverage data-driven insights are twice as likely to achieve top financial performance and five times more likely to make decisions faster than competitors. It is no wonder that many enterprises are investing in analytics.

The Intel Xeon Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 product family delivers robust performance for real-time analytics, industry-leading per-socket memory capacity, high levels of reliability, and enhanced hardware-based security, enabling enterprises to rapidly extract actionable insights from vast and complex data sets.

This product family is optimized for scale-up platforms, enabling data-intensive workloads such as online transaction processing (OLTP), supply chain management (SCM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP), as well as large-scale in-memory computing for real-time analytics. The Intel Xeon Processor E7 v4 product family also delivers up to 1.4 times higher performance at half the power consumption and up to 10 times better dollar-per-performance compared to IBM Power8-based solutions.

High Performance and In-Memory Capacity for Real-Time Analytics Workloads

This new processor product family provides headroom for expansion through support for 4-socket and 8-socket configurations and options supporting up to 64-sockets through third-party node controllers. Additionally, with industry-leading memory capacity of up to 24TB in an 8-socket system, vast data sets can be stored entirely in memory rather than on hard drives, accelerating insights and decision-making.

The new processor includes over 70 reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, including Intel Run Sure technology which is characteristic of the Xeon Processor E7 product family. RAS features provide mission-critical system readiness and advanced data integrity that reduce server downtime occurrences and costs. Additionally, features such as memory mirroring and improved error recovery mechanisms reduce overall system memory requirements while delivering superior data reliability.

Enhanced Security and Strengthened Protection Against Malware Attacks

New security features embedded in the processor protect business-critical data-intensive applications through faster data encryption, improved detection of sophisticated threats, and enhanced defense against malware attacks. Hardware-enhanced security features deliver up to 70% higher cryptographic performance per core.

This enables organizations to more effectively protect growing data while minimizing impact on system performance and improving defense against malware. Furthermore, Intel OS Guard now includes Supervisor Mode Access Protection, which enables IT teams to implement access controls to govern user access to sensitive system data. This also prevents malicious users from propagating vulnerabilities and exploiting other systems across the data center.

Hardware-enhanced virtualization enables IT teams to virtualize business-critical workloads and migrate to cloud-scale environments, achieving new levels of agility and efficiency. Improvements in virtualization performance and resource management include reduced latency during virtual machine (VM) entry and exit, reduced VM interference through posted interrupt technology, and reduced overhead in fault-tolerant environments through Page-Modification Logging.

The Intel Xeon Processor E7 v4 product family includes orchestration technologies such as Intel Resource Director technology and advanced telemetry capabilities for superior IT infrastructure control. These features provide deeper visibility and control over shared platform resources, enabling effective scheduling, load balancing, and workload migration across virtual machines. As a result, IT teams can improve asset utilization and deliver quality of service optimized across multiple applications.