Dell enhances enterprise solution portfolio with PowerEdge servers

Dell recently announced a portfolio of blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimised for use in demanding enterprise environments.

As the only one of the top five server vendors to grow server revenues in Q4 2011, Dell continues to innovate to deliver features that are industry firsts and make the PowerEdge 12th generation servers the company’s highest performing, most manageable servers ever. With this new server series, customers ranging from small businesses to hyper-scale data centres can help maximise efficiency by streamlining and automating operations, help achieve better business application performance and business continuity.

“Dell designed the new PowerEdge servers with input gathered from more than 7,700 customer interactions in 17 countries across four continents,” said Dell Sri Lanka Country Manager Shermal Jayatilaka.

 “Our customers told us that they need end-to-end solutions to handle the complex workload problems they face every day. As such, we built our new generation of servers, systems management and workload solutions to address the needs of business end users who require maximum performance to run mission-critical applications and IT departments which demand more efficient, secure and reliable operations.”

The next-generation PowerEdge servers, along with systems management and workload solutions, are designed to deliver performance and management gains to effectively power the most demanding applications, including collaboration, IT and web infrastructure, high performance computing, decision support and business processing.

Dell updated the industry’s first embedded systems management tools, the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) with Lifecycle Controller 1.0, which shipped in more than 3.5 million 11th Generation PowerEdge servers since its introduction in 2009, according to IDC.

 Now the second generation, iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller 2.0, enables customers to uniformly manage the deployment, updating, monitoring and maintenance of the server lifecycle.

Dell also announced Open Manage Essentials, a new management console, which monitors the health of Dell servers, storage and switches. By interfacing with the Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance, Open Manage Essentials sends user-defined server, storage and network health status alerts to the K1000 service desk.

The PowerEdge 12th generation servers enable customers to increase application performance, availability and scalability, with new capabilities that:

Improve responsiveness and provide fast customer insights, delivering up to 18 percent more Microsoft® SQL® Server transactions per second than HDD storage, with new industry leading technologies like Dell Express Flash, the first server design with front accessible, hot swappable PCIe solid state disks.

Deliver up to three times the number of mailboxes with the capacity and capability for Microsoft Exchange with up to two times more message processing with Scalable Storage.

Accelerate Oracle database applications with up to 86 percent reduction in transaction response time performance with Dell Compellent Data Progression Automated Tiered Storage feature.

Consolidate Oracle RAC database workloads at a rate of up to 8:1, with up to 84 percent increase in power savings.

Downtime and data loss determine business revenue and performance as companies are increasingly dependent on cloud-based applications, virtualised solutions, and high performance computing. Businesses must now deliver IT solutions that not only ensure redundancy and maximise uptime, but can scale to address increased demand while maintaining cost efficiency.

Customers running PowerEdge 12th generation servers can now benefit from continual access to the applications that drive the business, with innovations including:

The world’s first full product family portfolio of servers to offer enterprise-class RAS features for redundancy and fault-tolerance, memory mirroring, memory sparing, hot plug hard drives and redundant power supplies.

This provides IT administrators with continuity and consistency across their entire server infrastructure from the datacenter to remote and mobile locations.

The industry’s first server family portfolio to offer Redundant Failsafe SD Hypervisors across the entire family, so customers can take advantage of server virtualisation with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.