Mid-Tier servers are used by distributed applications to take advantage of their ability to be load balanced.  This results in high system availability and lower cost hardware than for traditional monolithic applications (like corporate databases) that can only run from one location and on expensive high end hardware.

Mid-tier applications include:

• E-commerce applications

• Commerce platforms

• Enterprise middleware

• Mid-tier elements of an ERP system

Examples
 

With the Intel® Server SPSH4 you can take advantage of the power of 4-way Intel® Xeon™ processors MP, which are specifically designed to provide the uncompromising performance required for eliminating bottlenecks in data flow and running performance-intensive applications such as Microsoft* Exchange 2000 groupware, storage management, and video streaming.