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Dell Adds New Models to PowerEdge Enterprise Server Line

Posted on: Monday, 30 August 2004, 06:00 CDT

BUILT-TO-ORDER manufacturer Dell has added four models to its line of PowerEdge (enterprise) servers, which integrate the latest technologies and standards such as OpenManage Systems 4 software, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 1.5 baseboard management controller and Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) 4 that are common across the entire range of servers.

The company claimed that the rack mount servers model 1850 and 2850, and the tower servers model 1800 and 2800 offer improved performance and reduced complexity and flexibility to address 32- bit and 64-bit applications with Intel's Xeon processor with extended memory 64 technology (EM64T).

"The OpenManage Systems Management software makes it easier to update and fix systems from remote locations while the common systems design and tools in the next-generation servers give customers stability and consistency across all Dell platforms," Dell Asia Pacific, China and Japan's director of enterprise Damian Crotty said.

According to him, the need to reduce data centre complexity and management costs is critical to build a scalable enterprise.

Common systems management images, basic input/output system (BIOS) and diagnostic tools help minimise the number of elements required to manage and update servers.

"Standardised systems are the backbone of customers information technology (IT) infrastructure. Dell's strategy is to standardise the core elements required by data centres which offer a price- performance value proposition," he said.

The servers feature 800-megahertz front side bus, up to eight gigabytes of double data rate 2 (DDR2) memory which will be extended up to 16GB when future memory modules become available, PCI Express, memory mirroring and redundant Gigabit network interface cards, support for clustering and deployment in storage area networks (SANs), common drivers and BIOS for image stability and consistency, and common small computer systems interface (SCSI) hard drive carriers and toll-less chassis.

The rack-mount 1850 server is targeted at Web farms, SAN environments and high-performance computing clusters or any environments where space is a major consideration.

The 2800 model, which is available in a tower model or a 5U rack server, offers up to 1.4 terabytes of internal data storage and is designed for server and storage consolidation.

The 2850 server can house six internal drives up to 876GB data storage in a 2U chassis, which is ideal for consolidation of applications that do not yet require networked storage.

It is suitable for databases, database clustering, messaging platforms and file/print consolidation servers.

The 1800 model is an entry-level server that provides performance in a tower form factor that can also be placed in a data centre rack.

The 1850 and 2850 servers are available immediately with factory- installed Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit edition) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (32/64-bit edition) for RM8,109 and RM8,413 respectively while the 1800 and 2800 models will only start shipping in October.

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