Dell guns for Intel upgrade time-to-market edge
Intel on Tuesday launched the latest Xeon server chips, the "Westmere-Ex" versions, and Dell is aiming to hit the gas to garner more server upgrades.
Dell on Tuesday refreshed its PowerEdge servers with three systems aimed to poach Unix migrations.
Among the key systems:
- PowerEdge R910 is a 4U rack server with four processors, up to 64 DIMM slots for memory, redundant power and an embedded hypervisor.
- PowerEdge M910 is aimed for server consolidation and mid- to large database deployments. The blade can scale to 512GB of RAM across 32 DIMM slots.
- PowerEdge R810 is a 2U server that comes in two- or four-socket versions.
Dell's servers are available today.
Brian Payne, executive director for Dell’s PowerEdge line, said the company's market share gains in 2010---22 percent according to IDC---are a result of getting new Intel servers to market quickly. "At three months time to market starts to matter," said Payne.
Indeed, Hewlett-Packard announced plans to launch new Proliant servers with the new Xeon chips.
According to HP:
HP ProLiant BL620c G7, HP ProLiant BL680c G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 servers based on Intel Xeon E7 family processors will be available in May 2011 and the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server based on Intel Xeon E7 family processors will be available in June 2011.