14 DAY TRIAL // A number of significant announcements have been made recently on the server market, with both AMD and Intel increasing the number of cores inside their latest server processors. While AMD was the first to announce its 8 and 12-core Opterons, Intel followed quickly with the introduction of its latest Xeon 7500 CPUs, designed to bring innovation and a boost of performance for server costumers. On that note, Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of personal and professional computer systems, announced a refresh to its line of PowerEdge servers today, which will provide consumers with the performance of the latest processors on the market.
“With the latest X86 refresh from both Intel and AMD, the performance advantages of RISC-based UNIX servers continues to diminish,” said Matthew Eastwood, group vice president, Enterprise Platforms Group for IDC. “Dell, like other server vendors, is poised to take advantage of this trend by offering not only a compelling price/performance ratio but by also providing a robust portfolio of RISC migration services.”
The new lineup includes the PowerEdge R910, the M910, the R810 and the R815, each one being targeted at a different segment of the server market. According to the Round Rock, Texas-based outfit, the R910 is 4U rack server, featuring a high-performance, four-socket Intel Nehalem-EX processor with up to 64 DIMMs for memory, is ideal for RISC/UNIX migrations. The M910, on the other hand, is based on the latest Xeon 7500 series of processors and is capable of scaling up to 512GB of RAM. The last two of the four, the R810 and the R815 have been designed to provide support for customers looking for virtualization solutions.
Unfortunately, the company hasn't revealed any details regarding the pricing and availability of its latest PowerEdge server lineup, but it's clear that these won't come cheap, considering the new features that have been built inside them.