New Dell servers: Big business performance at small business price

Dell PowerEdge™ R300 and T300 perform up to 31 percent better than comparable HP servers; up to 51 percent better than similar IBM servers

High-availability features for increased uptime

3x memory capacity to better handle memory-intensive applications

Dubai, UAE 24 March 2008 - Small and medium businesses no longer have to sacrifice server performance or reliability for an affordable price. Dell's new PowerEdge R300 and T300 servers have industry-leading performance, memory and high-availability features previously available only in more expensive systems designed for larger businesses. Available today worldwide, the industry's highest-performing one-socket quad-core servers¹ start at US $ 1303 for the R300 rack server and US $ 1177 for the T300 tower server. These prices are excluding freight and tax.

"Customers want faster performing systems to run their already taxed computer networks at a price that won't break the bank," said John Coulston, Marketing Manager, Dell Middle East. "We listened, and our new R300 and T300 servers deliver the kind of technology innovation our customers care about - more performance and reliability without more cost."

Superior Performance for SMBs

Utilising the quad-core Intel Xeon® x5460 processor, the PowerEdge R300 achieves up to 26 percent better performance than the HP DL320 G5p,² and up to 51 percent over the IBM System X 3250.³ The T300 tower server achieves up to 31 percent better performance compared to the HP ML310 G5 server,⁴ and up to 51 better performance than the IBM System X 3200.⁵

"Today, we exclusively rely on the energy-efficient, high-performing Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack servers to deliver our SuperVPS enterprise-class hosting solution to customers," said Reed Caldwell, founder and CEO of ServInt, a recognised leader in the Virtual Private Server (VPS) marketplace with customers of all sizes in all regions of the world. "Because of our recently launched Green Initiative to promote ecologically responsible, sustainable hosting, we're most excited about the increased energy efficiency of the R300. We'll start testing it this week and have high expectations for its performance and capabilities."

The new R300 and T300 servers also help companies like ServInt better handle memory intensive applications by offering 24GB of memory - three times the memory capacity of competitive one-socket x 86 systems. Essential, high-availability features include hot-plug hard drives and redundant power supplies to help increase uptime and prevent loss of data access.

As mentioned, the R300 also helps provide energy cost savings for customers. It is one of the industry's most energy efficient servers, delivering leading performance per watt result compared to all currently published SPECpower results.⁶

Enhanced Business Security and Services

Dell's PowerEdge R300 and T300 offer built-in security features to help customers better protect their server investments, including:

• Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to strengthen security, enabling better authentication, encryption and protection of critical information;
• Internal lock-down USB to reduce risk of data loss and security breaches; and
• Locking bezels and a chassis intrusion switch to protect against unauthorised access to system hard drives, peripherals and the control panel.

Dell's new services portfolio, ProSupport, gives small and medium businesses greater flexibility to choose the support options. These service options, combined with features delivered in the R300 and T300 servers, make it easier for customers to spend less time focusing on information technology and more time on productivity and growing their businesses.

Additional Small Business Networking Resources for first-time server buyers or non-technical users: 

• Small Business 360 Computer Networking

• Networking Basics

• Server Advisor

• First Server Makeover

For more information, please visit: www.dell.com/me and for more information on Dell PowerEdge servers, visit http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/servers?c=ae&l=ar&s=bsd.  

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¹Based on SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006 and SPECjbb2005 results for the Dell PowerEdge R300 and T300 compared with other 1-socket x86 servers published on www.spec.org as of March 6, 2008. For the latest SPEC® benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org.  SPEC® and the benchmark names SPECint®, SPECfp®, and SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

² Based on a Dell PowerEdge R300 SPECint_rate_base2006 result compared to the best performing 1-socket result from Hewlett-Packard Company published on www.spec.org as of March 6, 2008.

³Based on a Dell PowerEdge R300 SPECint_rate_base2006 result compared to the best performing 1-socket result from IBM Corporation published on www.spec.org as of March 6, 2008. 

⁴ Based on a SPECint®_rate2006 result for the Dell PowerEdge T300 compared to the HP ML310 G5 as of March 6, 2008.

⁵Based on a Dell PowerEdge T300 SPECint_rate_base2006 result compared to the best performing 1-socket tower result from IBM Corporation published on www.spec.org as of March 6, 2008. For the latest SPEC CPU2006 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006.  

⁶Based on a SPECpower_ssj2008 result on the Dell PowerEdge R300 compared to all results published on www.spec.org as of March 18, 2008. For the latest SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECpower_ssj® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

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