Dell Upgrades Performance of Quad-Socket Servers; Drives Enhanced Management Across PowerEdge Line.ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Dell (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DELL) today enhanced its quad-socket servers with performance-boosting, power-saving Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) 7100 series processors and system management software to simplify data center operations. Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (TM) 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 servers featuring the new processors can deliver performance gains of up to 123 percent(1) and improved performance per watt of up to 129 percent(1). To reduce data center complexity, Dell OpenManage(TM) now delivers improved hardware deployment, monitoring and management with Dell IT Assistant 8.0. The enhanced systems management capabilities and tight partner integration are designed to give customers greater flexibility, security and control over their server environments. "The improvements in performance and performance per watt in our PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 are outstanding and represent another great step in delivering our most comprehensive set of enterprise products ever," said Neil Hand, vice president of worldwide enterprise marketing, Dell Product Group. "These servers, combined with our recently announced ninth-generation of PowerEdge products, services and the enhanced ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → 8.0, accelerate our drive to deliver technology that customers value when it comes to price-performance, reduced complexity and performance per watt." Database, Consolidation, Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. -- More Powerful Than Ever These powerful, standards-based servers are designed for demanding enterprise applications such as database, server consolidation, virtualization and migration from costly RISC-based systems. The combination of scalability, availability, hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT), and Hyper-Threading technology can provide the headroom and optimization required to handle applications in virtualized environments. The quad-socket PowerEdge servers can be configured with large 16MB cache processors to efficiently handle large data-blocks typical in database environments. Customers can realize benefits from the quad-socket, dual-core processor speeds, 800MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Front Side Bus and Hyper-Threading technology available on PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 servers for applications that take advantage of processor-intensive performance. Reducing Complexity Through Enhanced Management The Dell OpenManage product family coupled with tightly integrated partner solutions for enhanced management provides a comprehensive selection of deployment, monitoring, and change-management tools for Dell hardware. The availability of Dell IT Assistant 8.0 reflects Dell's strategy to improve hardware management capabilities while providing a high degree of flexibility and choice of management tools for Dell servers. IT Assistant 8.0 provides more comprehensive hardware management capabilities from a centralized console including: --Agent-less server management using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware - Customers can manage Dell servers with IT Assistant 8.0 using the standard IPMI 2.0 management controller provided without loading an agent on the server. --Performance Management - Monitoring, alerting and reporting of server performance statistics such as CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , pages I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , disk free space, disk I/O, and NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. traffic. --Enhanced Deployment/Change Management - Gives customers the ability to push OMSA OMSA OpenManage Server Administrator (Dell computer utility) OMSA Offshore Marine Service Association OMSA Orders and Medals Society of America OMSA Ontario Medical Secretaries Association OMSA Ogden Museum of Southern Art agents to Windows servers See Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. --Additional Device Support - for Dell printers, Dell/EMC storage and PowerVault tape libraries, allows customers to minimize their management tool set while maintaining overall control of a wider variety of IT devices New Dell Services Complete Enterprise Solutions, Enable Superior Uptime Customers buying Dell's newest PowerEdge servers can also benefit from Platinum Plus, Dell's highest level of enterprise support. Platinum Plus provides reliability and global consistency for customers with business-critical needs. It includes the industry's first Operations Performance Benchmarking feature, a patent-pending methodology that allows customers to routinely compare critical IT performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. to historical results and similarly configured environments. Platinum Plus also includes the Enterprise Command Center Real-Time Tracking Window, a Web-enabled feature to provide customers a virtual Enterprise Command Center to follow ongoing support activities. Platinum Plus is the culmination of more than a $200 million investment in enterprise support over the past several years. In addition to Platinum Plus, Dell offers all levels of enterprise support with Gold, Silver and Basic. For more information visit www.dell.com/services. Pricing and Availability The PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 with Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 Series processors are available today worldwide and priced from $6,900 in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Additional information is available at http://www.dell.com/poweredge. Product photography is available at http://www.dell.com/photos. About Dell Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any computer company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. Company revenue for the past four quarters was $57.4 billion. For more information, visit http://www.dell.com. To get Dell news direct, visit http://www.dell.com/RSS. Pricing, specifications, availability, and terms of offers may change without notice. Taxes, fees, shipping, handling and any applicable restocking charges are extra, and vary. (1) Based on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in August 2006 on a PE6850 with four dual core Intel Xeon 7140M (3.4Ghz 150 watt Tulsa) processors, 16GB 400Mhz DDR-2 memory and Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition+SP1 OS as compared to a PE6850 with four dual core Intel Xeon 7041 3.0Ghz (Paxville MP) processors, 16GB 400Mhz DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory 2 memory and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition+SP1 OS. Actual performance and power consumption will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. SPEC(R) and the benchmark name SPECjbb(R) are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit organization that aims to produce "fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers." SPEC was founded in 1988 and their goal is to ensure that the marketplace has a fair and useful set of metrics to . For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/jbb2005. Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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