Dell announces 13th generation PowerEdge server line

Dell has unveiled its PowerEdge 13th generation server portfolio designed to help customers address and optimise the evolving spectrum of application and workload requirements.

More than 80 percent of IT decision-makers report these factors as investment priorities for the next 12 months, according to the Future Ready IT survey, recent worldwide research commissioned by Dell and Intel. In India, the survey found that Reliability and Stability features and Hardware based security features were the most important server features seen by over 65 percent of the IT decision makers.

Keeping this in mind, the new Dell PowerEdge portfolio has been designed in five form-factors across blade, rack and tower servers - providing customers with choice in how they address industry trends including cloud computing, mobility, big data, and software-defined, the company said.

The Dell India R&D, Bangalore Center has made significant contributions to the 13th generation of Power Edge server development. Commenting on this, Rudramuni B., executive director & head, R&D, Dell India, said, “With the contribution from 70% of the workforce at Bangalore Design Center, we are delighted to move the technology goal post further for the competition. It is heartening to the see the humble accomplishment in the eyes of Dell India engineers as 13G is launched and we start receiving accolades from worldwide customers.”

The first of the new Dell PowerEdge servers includes the PowerEdge R730xd, R730, and R630 rack servers, the M630 blade server, and the T630 tower server, which are built with the latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family.

With 1.8-inch SATA flash drives, the Dell PowerEdge R630 can deliver customers up to 2.4 times the input/output operations per second (IOPS) in the same amount of space as 2.5-inch SSDs. With the PowerEdge R730xd, Dell also provides up to 100TB of storage for workloads such as Microsoft Exchange, where it also delivers up to a 50 percent increase in mailbox size over previous generation servers.

Dell also has introduced direct-attached storage offerings specifically developed for the new PowerEdge servers. The new Dell Storage MD1400 and MD1420 offer affordable storage expansion, double the bandwidth and improved performance compared to the previous generation, data security with self-encrypting-drives (SEDs), and seamless data management between the server and storage enclosure.

Up to 10x improvement in deployment time with industry-leading systems management capabilities for new levels of automation and at-the-box management; zero-touch automation reduces configuration time by up to 99 percent.

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