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Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn’t build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation.

“By not putting the solution on a blade, we were able to add more functionality and high performance OpenGL l graphics cards, to achieve the caliber of performance workstation customers want,” said Antonio Julio, Director, Dell Product Group.

Great news and it could have a number of uses. It might be ideal for those organizations that already have their trader pcs in a secure room with a remote kvm, where a blade desktop/blade workstation is seen as a ‘step too far’.

At the same time, a rack mount workstation might be good enough for those development/staging grid solutions? Where I might have blades in production/staging, but in my test/development, where I’m simply testing concepts and I don’t want to invest a lot in equipment. Could they not even be hosted in those comms rooms, where the infrastructure is, rather than the data center? A few cabinets full of these workstations?

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