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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by abakker on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:20PM (#15150470)
Do you frequently see people getting fired for purchasing decisions?
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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by dijit on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:12PM (#15151014)
Systems Engineer here;

Absolutely.

Good example is that we bought 1,000 servers, 256G memory, dual socket Xeon E5-2687w v4 etc;

The things didn't come with a TPM module and it was a business requirement to run:

A) Windows

B) Full Disk Encryption

TPM modules were not available to us in such quantities.

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by gigatexal on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:21PM (#15151108)
So, um, ... what happened to those now "useless" servers. Wondering for a friend ;-)
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