Dell Unveils PowerEdge C Microserver Line

The problem with servers is that they tent to take up a lot of space, so Dell figured it may as well play on this aspect when it built its newest solutions intended for the cloud infrastructure.

Even with the disaster striking Japan, and the ongoing nuclear crisis involving overheated, damaged reactors and radiation leaks, things still haven't stopped on the IT market.

Dell, apparently, is one of the companies that chose to act, having completed its newest collection of servers.

They are known as PowerEdge C and focus on density and energy efficiency, to the point where 12 nodes can be packed inside a single 3U chassis.

In other words, the density is of up to four times what HP or IBM servers can pull off and the power needed for cooling is up to 75% lower, or so the press release says.

Microservers of this sort are useful in applications that don't need virtualization or multi-core architecture. In other words, if low cost and single application running is what the setup will be tasked with, these type of machines are the way to go.

“The growth of various cloud computing models has resulted in many of these organizations grappling with the best way to optimize and scale the performance of their enormous data centers,” said Reuben Miller, senior research analyst, IDC.

“This new microserver series, through a shared infrastructure and energy efficient design, helps these customers maximize their IT environments while helping them adapt to the change with a highly modular and serviceable design.”

The PowerEdge C5125 and C5220 support both AMD and Intel architectures, come with four DDR3 UDIMMS, two 3.5-inch or four 2.5-inch HDDs and two Gigabit Ethernet ports each, among other things.

“Our new PowerEdge C microservers further solidify our position as the premier vendor of specialized server solutions, leveraging our experience working with this unique set of customers and placing that power into the hands of a broader customer base including Web hosting and IT service providers,” said Andy Rhodes, executive director of marketing, Dell Data Center Solutions.