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Dell continues the innovation in blade technology
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_blades_outofbox_comp.pdf or www.dell.com
Dell today set a new standard for data center energy efficiency and flexibility with the PowerEdgeTM M-Series blade solution. The PowerEdge M-Series was designed from the ground up using Dell Energy Smart technologies, resulting in 30 industry patents, to help customers simplify information technology and better address mounting environmental challenges in their data centers. The new M1000e blade enclosure is now available worldwide for ordering with a starting price of $5,999, along with blades starting at $1,849. For more information, visit www.dell.com/poweredge.
The PowerEdge M-Series consumes up to 19 percent less power and achieves up to 25 percent better performance per watt than the HP BladeSystem c-Class1. Compared to the IBM BladeCenter H, the M-Series consumes 12 percent less energy and achieves up to 28 percent better performance per watt1. Built on Dell’s Energy Smart technologies, the PowerEdge M-Series enables businesses to save on power and cooling costs while increasing server capacity. The M-Series also provides lead-free configurations, delivering a “green IT†solution that further helps customers minimize their environmental impact.
“Blade offerings have been long on promises and short on helping customers address the growing costs and complexity in their data centers,†said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Business Product Group. “The PowerEdge M-Series delivers on those promises with unmatched energy efficiency, flexibility, performance and manageability. It enables customers to achieve the compute performance they need while lowering their overall power consumption and reducing data center complexity and server sprawl.â€
The PowerEdge M1000e, a 10U-sized enclosure, supports 16 blade servers. It is optimized for Dell’s PowerEdge M600 and M605 blade servers and supports up to two quad-core Intel® Xeon® and quad-core AMD OpteronTM processors, respectively. The M600 and M605 blade servers are 60 percent more dense than standard 1U servers, helping customers to better address data center space constraints.
Very cool blades and great news for Dell. This new blades and enclosure bring new opportunities for Dell and further innovation in the blade platform, in choice for customer which has to be a good thing for the market and the end user. The energy efficiency information sounds really cool, (performance per watt can be a big driver for some customers), as does the options for Ethernet and Fibre connectivity. I’m off to read up about them now.
As a long time PowerEdge customer I’m a little disappointed in what I’m hearing about the new Dell blades. It looks like they adopted HP’s half-height blade design which leaves me with a single point of failure for 16 servers. Plus if they do have full-height blades, power is only available across one of the mid-planes like HP’s c-class chassis… I wish I could find IBM blades at a Dell price. Any ideas?