Dell Technology has introduced a raft of new products aimed at advancing customers’ data center modernization projects capable of supporting a variety of workloads, from virtualization and database management to AI inferencing and high-performance computing (HPC).
PowerEdge rack servers provide a reliable and future-ready solution for modern data centers. Dell argues that organizations are rethinking their IT strategies for the need to support both traditional and modern workloads and increased cyber threats. That strategy involves moving toward a disaggregated infrastructure that abstracts compute, storage and networking into shared resource pools to deliver improved scalability, efficiency and adaptability.
“What we what we hear from customers most often is that they are trying to architect their technology to avoid vendor lock in. They it is no longer just about supporting virtual machine based workloads. It’s about virtual machines, containers and bare metal,” said Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of infrastructure and telecom marketing on a press briefing conference call.
The update starts with new PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers featuring Intel Xeon 6 with P-cores processors in single- and dual-socket configurations designed to handle high-performance computing, virtualization, analytics and artificial intelligence inferencing.
Dell said they save up to half of the energy costs of previous server generations while supporting up to 50% more cores per processors and 67% better performance. With the R770, up to 80% of space can be saved and a 42U rack. They feature the Dell Modular Hardware System architecture, which is based on Open Compute Project standards.
The controller system also received a significant update, with improvements to Dell OpenManage and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller providing real-time monitoring, while the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller for PCIe Gen 5 hardware reduces write latency up to 33-fold.
The storage subsystem has also had a significant overhaul. An update to PowerScale scale-out flash storage portfolio is designed for AI data management, featuring 122TB solid-state drives that provide up to 6PB of high-speed data access in a single 2U enclosure. Hybrid and archival storage nodes have also been updated to improve latency and overall performance.
The Dell ObjectScale object storage management system now supports eight times greater density compared to previous all-flash systems. Enhancements include multisite federation, copy-to-cloud features, geo-replication global namespace and data governance capabilities developed in partnership with Wasabi Technologies.
The news isn’t all just about enterprise data center equipment, however. The new PowerProtect DD6410 appliance is targeted at small businesses and remote offices and features storage capacity starting at 12 TB and scaling to 256 TB, along with faster restore speeds and better data deduplication. The All-Flash Ready Node now offers 61% faster restores, reduced power consumption and an 80% smaller physical footprint.
Source:: Network World