Dell Goes On HP Offensive with Power-Saving Servers

Dell says it’s ready to attack HP’s Proliant blade servers with a new line of PowerEdge blade servers that are optimized for better power consumption and performance, thanks to AMD’s CPUs. If saving rack space and the environment at the same time are top of mind for you, The VAR Guy has some details about Dell’s new servers. Read on …

Dell’s big push with the new PowerEdge blade servers is due to new performance figures that, according to Dell, demonstrate:

Those models aren’t the entire lineup, however. Dell is also featuring two new rack units, the PowerEdge R715 and a compact 2U R815 unit.

Dell is pushing the new blade servers as the ideal candidate for boosting application performance and application availability. And with the servers running AMD Opteron 6200 series CPUs, Dell promises they also can tackle private cloud and virtualization needs or even enterprise-level tasks.

AMD servers can have up to 16 cores per processor, and in the case of the PowerEdge C6145, up to 128 cores. Naturally, Dell is aiming for the more price-conscious space by using AMD CPUs, but no definitive prices have been given. The VAR Guy encourages partners to check out Dell’s release for a few more interesting performance figures (and the fine print on Dell’s benchmarking).

Meanwhile, HP continues its own unique server assault with Project Moonshot, which aims to develop future servers using ARM, Atom and other mobile CPUs for power saving and data center consolidation. The VAR Guy is sure Dell will fight HP there, too.