Dell’s new PowerEdge services promise latest Intel chips, top-end AI power
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Dell has announced no fewer than 13 new PowerEdge servers built on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in an effort to “accelerate performance and reliability” while offering a number of cost-effective solutions.
Jeff Boudreau, president and general manager for Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell, said customers appreciate the company’s “easily managed yet advanced” solutions. His expectation for the next generation of PowerEdge servers is that it “raises the bar in energy efficiency, performance, and reliability.”
The latest Intel Xeon chips were made available earlier in 2023, citing performance improvements and overall power consumption reductions that Dell hopes will make the latest servers more energy efficient at a time when data centers are under increasing pressure to meet important environmental requirements. statistics.
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The announcement reveals the PowerEdge HS5610 and HS5620 servers, which are available in both 1U and 2U form factors designed to ease adoption.
One of the key areas where significant improvements can be made is artificial intelligence: the company says AI inference on the also new PowerEdge R760, equipped with the latest Xeon chip, will be up to 2.9 times better.
The airflow is improved by up to 52% compared to the previous generation. This, and the associated performance upgrades, are designed to help businesses reduce energy consumption.
In addition to the hardware advancements, Dell has also made a series of enhancements to tools designed to simplify deployment and management, including Dell CloudIQ for monitoring, Dell ProDeploy services and the Dell iDRAC9 (remote access controller).
Global availability for the R760 is scheduled for February 2023, with the pair of HS servers expected two months later in April and additional units coming in the first half of the year.