Dell announced the availability of the ninth-generation PowerEdge™ servers equipped with Intel Xeon 5100 series (Woodcrest) processors.
PowerEdge series of servers include the 1950, 2950, 2900 and 1955 blade servers with Intel Xeon 5100 series processors that help lower power consumption1 and can deliver up to a 152 percent performance increase over the previous generation 2U Dell PowerEdge server.2
Dell’s ninth-generation PowerEdge servers were introduced last month. The new servers, which feature the most comprehensive enhancements ever to the widely installed product line, support the company’s strategy to reduce complexity and drive more complete and cost-effective enterprise technologies across a variety of customer environments.
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Dell continues its drive to deliver full-featured, high-density computing platforms at a cost and total cost of ownership advantage to traditional 1U rack servers. Dell's next-generation blade offering, the Dell PowerEdge 1955 meets data center needs by reducing complexity without burdening customers with the price premium or acquisition cost previously associated with the platform.
Dell engineered the PowerEdge 1955 blades to deliver investment protection to customers, leveraging the current 7U chassis and enabling customers to deploy the new Dell PowerEdge 1955 side-by-side with existing PowerEdge 1855 blades. Dell’s innovative chassis design and strategic placement of high performance cooling fans provides maximum airflow efficiencies and optimal cooling for customers.
Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers boast a wide range of connectivity features, reducing overall solution cost and cable sprawl for customers’ data centers. The balanced architecture of the PowerEdge Blade Server supports high performance Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand connectivity options from Dell, Intel, Cisco, Topspin, Brocade, McDATA, and QLogic.
The new server portfolio also can lower power consumption by up to 25 percent, providing an increase in performance per watt of electricity of up to 169 percent and addressing customer requirements to reduce the cost and environmental impact of data center power demands.2
Dell’s PowerEdge servers anchor a broad initiative to drive commonality between server, storage and software technologies, making it easier and more cost-effective for customers to deploy enterprise technology in a variety of IT environments. This initiative will generate announcements throughout the year, furthering Dell’s leadership in enterprise technologies and services for demanding workloads, such as database, with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Oracle Database 10g; virtualization, with VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server; and Microsoft Exchange.
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