Recent dialogs with Info-Tech clients have highlighted an interesting and potentially problematic issue: migration to servers with multi-core processors does not ensure higher application performance. In one case, a client reported that a key application was responding so slowly on the new multi-core server that they had to return to the old hardware.

What Should Happen?

Multi-core processors offer higher performance because different tasks that are normally time-sliced within a single CPU can now run on their own CPU.