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Dell has announced its eighth generation of PowerEdge servers that incorporate the latest technologies and standards and provide customers with a pathway to 64-bit computing. The dual-processor PowcrEdgc 1800, 1850,2800, and 2850 servers feature Intel Xeon processors with Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T). Dell also announced OpenManage 4 systems management software.
Two-processor capacity server unit shipments are expected to account for more than 6.2 million units in 2008, nearly double the 3.5 millions units shipped in 2003, according to industry analyst firm IDC. Single and dual processor capacity servers also represented 91 percent of all server unit shipments in 2003, according to the same research.
"Standardized Dell systems are the backbone of customers' IT infrastructure," said Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of Dell's Product Group. "The ability to now run applications that require larger memory on these systems will increase their confidence to unplug proprietary Unix servers and deploy Dell."
"This generation of Dell servers has eliminated deployment barriers based on memory requirements for our most important applications and provides lots of room to grow," said Steve Randich, CIO and executive vice president of The NASDAQ Stock Market. "It is clear that Dell also is committed to helping us manage these servers more easily with new standards and greater integration with other management tools we already use."
OpenManage 4 works with industry-standard IPMI baseboard management controllers in the system, enabling customers to remotely monitor and control the servers with their choice of systems management software. Optional Dell remote access cards also enable secure, remote server installation, update and fault recovery, reducing customers' need for physical server access. Additionally, common systems management images, drivers, BIOS and diagnostic tools, help minimize the number of elements needed to manage and update servers.
The PowerEdge 1800, 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers will be available with factory installed Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit edition) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (32/64-bit edition). Dell plans to offer the PowerEdge 1800 and 2800 in October.
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