Dell PowerEdge 2970, Energy Smart 2970 offer upgrade path to Quad-Core
Dubai, UAE, 12 April 2007 -- Dell unveiled two new servers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) - the PowerEdge 2970 and the PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970. Designed for enterprise customers, the servers reduce power consumption and deliver dramatic improvements in performance and performance per watt.
The PowerEdge 2970 is engineered to draw up to 34 percent less power1 and deliver up to 105 percent greater performance per watt2 over the previous generation of Dell servers featuring dual-core processors. Both servers are designed to handle multiple generations of AMD Opteron processors, providing a seamless upgrade path to Quad-core. This allows customers to increase computing capacity as well as consolidate and deploy virtualised environments without altering their data center infrastructure.
The PowerEdge 2970 and Energy Smart 2970 incorporate innovative design features, standards-based technologies and Dell's commitment to hardware commonality. With the latest Dell OpenManage systems management software and tight integration of leading third-party suites, customers can simplify enterprise operations with a single, flexible management solution across the server lifecycle.
"Customers are constantly challenged with constraints on their IT infrastructure and lifecycle costs," said Eric Velfre, Enterprise Director, Dell EMEA. "We're committed to offering comprehensive solutions that reduce total cost of ownership through virtualisation, energy efficiency and accelerating multi-core adoption."
"The PowerEdge 2970 and PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970 servers," Velfre added, "meet the needs of today's enterprises by improving power consumption, space constraints and cooling, while lowering overall lifecycle costs and delivering flexibility and a simplified upgrade path in deploying multi-core platforms without driving a single 'catch-all' architecture or platform."
A Balanced Platform and Commitment to Commonality for Simplified Operations
The Dell PowerEdge 2970 maximises the balance between performance, energy efficiency and price and was designed to excel with database, messaging and network infrastructure applications as well as for the virtualisation of IT environments. Features of the PowerEdge 2970 include:
Dell's ninth-generation commonality features, including design layout and behavioural specifications, reduce the learning curve of maintaining and servicing Dell PowerEdge servers
AMD Direct Connect Architecture, which helps eliminate bottlenecks that certain application and workloads run into with traditional front-side bus architectures
SAS hard drives for increased reliability and data transmission
PCI-Express I/O for high-performance Ethernet, RAID, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel interconnect and investment protection for future technologies
TCP/IP Offload Engine designed to provide greater performance for PowerEdge servers running Windows Server 2003 SP1, by offloading TCP/IP traffic from the host processor to an integrated NIC processor
Split Plane motherboard operation when combined with Quad-core processors, will allow voltage supplies to run independently, resulting in improved performance and power management benefits over unified plane systems
Delivering the Most Energy Efficient Designs in the Industry
Dell has extended its Energy Smart lineup with the PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970 to help customers decrease power consumption and reduce overall operating costs. The Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970 can deliver up to 25 percent greater performance per watt while reducing power consumption by up to 21 percent.
These improvements can save hundreds of dollars per server every year, which can translate to millions of dollars per year in large data center deployments. Customers can also benefit from the smaller energy footprint to drive increased density in the data centre by deploying four PowerEdge Energy Smart servers within the same "power envelop" occupied today by three standard servers.
Dell has engineered the PowerEdge Energy Smart servers from the ground up as the industry's first standards-based servers optimised for power efficiency. Features include:
- Low-flow fan technology
- High-efficiency power supplies
- Low-voltage/high-efficiency processors
- Factory-integrated BIOS and unique component specifications designed for increased efficiency and air flow
Pricing and Availability
The Dell PowerEdge 2970 is available today worldwide and the Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970 will be available in the coming weeks. For more information, visit: www.dell.com/poweredge or www.dell.com/me.
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1Based on AC power measurements using an Extech 380803 Power Analyzer taken during the peak load of the SPECjbb2005 benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in February 2007 on a PE2970 with two dual-core AMD Opteron 2212 HE (2.0GHz) processors, 16GB 667MHz DDR2 memory and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (SP1) OS as compared to a PE2850 with two dual-core Intel Xeon 2.8GHz (Paxville) processors, 8GB 400MHz DDR2 memory and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (SP1) OS. Actual power consumption will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
2Based on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark test and power measurements performed by Dell Labs in February 2007 on a PE2970 with two dual-core AMD Opteron 2212 HE (2.0GHz) processors, 16GB 667MHz DDR2 memory and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (SP1) OS as compared to a PE2850 with two dual-core Intel Xeon 2.8GHz (Paxville) processors, 8GB 400MHz DDR2 memory and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (SP1) OS. Actual power consumption will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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