Dell designed its 11th generation of servers with input from IT professionals worldwide to help companies do more with less by simplifying data centre operations, improving performance and energy efficiency, and lowering total cost of ownership.
The news
* The new Dell PowerEdge servers include the M610 and M710 blade servers for the M1000e chassis, the R710 and R610 rack servers and the T610 tower server. Dell will roll out PowerEdge additions to its two-socket portfolio - the T710, R410 and T410 - in the coming months.
* The latest PowerEdge servers help companies enhance IT efficiency with:
* Embedded Systems Management: Dell Unified Server Configurator powered by LifeCycle Controller is embedded on 11th generation PowerEdge servers. This new systems management technology radically simplifies many common IT processes such as deployment, diagnostics, update and configuration. Unified Server Configurator has “Instant On” integrated manageability with zero media deployment through a single access point. The Dell PowerEdge R710 server is 43% faster than its competitors.
* Power and Thermal Efficiency: Dell 11th generation PowerEdge servers are available with Energy Smart technologies that are designed to reduce power consumption while increasing performance capacity. Enhancements include efficient power supply units optimised for system requirements, improved system-level design efficiency, policy-driven power and thermal management and highly efficient standards-based Energy Smart components.
* Dell PowerEdge servers with Energy Smart design architecture can save customers up to 48 Watts in energy consumption compared to previous generation PowerEdge over the life cycle of the product
* Dell PowerEdge 11th generation servers expect to achieve the industry's highest performance per watt, according to SPECpower_ssj2008 results to be published on 30 March 2009.
* The Dell PowerEdge M710 server and Dell EqualLogic storage had a 47.5% performance-per-watt advantage over competitor's blade server and storage.
* Virtualisation Performance: Featuring Intel's Nehalem-based architecture, embedded hypervisors, up to 125% increased memory footprint and more integrated I/O, PowerEdge 11th generation servers offer better overall system performance and virtual machine per server capacity compared to previous generations. Dell provides a smart path to virtualisation with the choice of hypervisor from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft.
* The Dell PowerEdge R710 server and Dell EqualLogic storage supported 25% more Microsoft Exchange 2007 virtual machines than a competitor's rack server and storage.
* Inspired Design: Dell PowerEdge servers have system and image commonality across platforms to enable lower deployment and management costs. The logical layout of components and power supply placement allows for straightforward installation and redeployment. The new PowerEdge servers have inspired design enhancements, including all steel construction cable management arm, new metal hard drive carriers, single pull fan module and quick release rack latching. The servers allow unprecedented system management from the aisle with multi-layer LCD and KVM access. The industrial design of the PowerEdge R610 and R710 was recognised as winners of the 2009 iF Germany Product Design Award.
* Lower total cost of ownership: In TCO comparisons by rack, by chassis and by blade, the Dell PowerEdge M710 blade solution had a lower TCO and yielded significant cost savings over the HP ProLiant BL685c G5 blade solution. The Dell M710 had 40% lower TCO per chassis over three years compared to HP ProLiant BL685c G5 blade solution.
* System performance: Dell 11th generation PowerEdge servers have achieved up to 50% increase in performance over previous generation servers, allowing companies to run more compute intensive databases and applications more efficiently.
* Image Management Service for PowerEdge Servers
* To help simplify image management for the new 11th generation servers, Dell will now offer ImageDirect, an online solution that enables organisations to securely create, deploy, and manage virtual and physical images on new Dell servers. Provisioning servers with ImageDirect can save IT staff time. Companies can now create and manage server images online and have them factory-installed, enabling image consistency and quality while eliminating time consuming on-premise manual configuration and reducing deployment and IT staff time. Companies can rapidly stabilise new servers into their production environment with ready to deploy optimised configurations and minimise unwanted drift from desired configuration states at the time of deployment.
* With Dell ProConsulting, Dell analyses all aspects of a customer's data centre needs, and provides them with specific actions to simplify and help save costs in their data centre through virtualisation of servers and storage and consolidation of data centres. Dell analyses their power and cooling capacity and practices to find inefficiencies, and provides recommendations for getting the most out of their hidden data centre. New systems management consulting and tools can improve data centre operations from server provisioning and maintenance to availability monitoring and service-level management through asset retirement. Available throughout Dell's direct EMEA countries.
Quotes
* “CEOs don't wake up in the middle of the night worrying about what the servers in their data centre are doing, and they shouldn't have to. Dell is creating technology that greatly simplifies IT throughout its entire life cycle to make our customers more efficient. The new Dell 11th generation PowerEdge servers were designed to lead the industry in price/performance, virtualisation and power/thermal efficiency to reduce complexity and cost and let our customers focus on creating business value.” -- Brad Anderson, Senior Vice-President, Enterprise Product Group, Dell.
* “Getting maximum utilisation of existing data centres can drive constraints placed by overall infrastructure power and cooling demands, limiting business agility. Dell's 11th generation PowerEdge servers with the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series give companies unprecedented performance and intelligent power consumption that can dynamically adapt to application workloads and business demands. With this refresh, customers can enhance business agility, extend the life of their data centres, and have additional room for growth.” - Kirk Skaugen, Vice-President and General Manager, Server Platforms Group, Intel
* “With the new PowerEdge 11th Generation servers, we know we will be able to drive huge productivity gains in our business thanks to the virtualisation-optimised features, which is especially important for our environment of more than 25 000 virtual machines. We can also reduce our operating costs significantly because of the efficiency offered and new Dell Management Console and Lifecycle Management tools.” - Patrick Pulvermueller, Managing Director at Host Europe.
* “When we benchmarked the Dell PowerEdge M710 blade servers with Intel Xeon E5530 processors, we saw an increase in power efficiency of at least 25%. Additionally, we enabled simultaneous multi-threading, and saw power efficiency go up even further. We could make a potential 50% overall improvement.” - Helge Meinhard, head of server and storage procurement, CERN Central IT.
* “The PowerEdge R710 server will help us reduce rack space, cut energy costs and improve performance.” - Wahid Aziz, Product Manager, Webfusion.
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