Thursday, 6 November 2008

Dell Announces New Products, Provides Smarter Path to Virtualization

“Building on the momentum of its Virtualization Blockbuster in May of this year, Dell reveals more new products, management tools and infrastructure consulting services designed to provide customers a smarter path to virtualization,” said Dell in a recent announcement.

Dell’s new full-height blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and PowerEdge M805, leverage the innovative virtualization design of the PowerEdge R805 and R905, the company said.

The PowerEdge M905 delivers the ultimate four-socket blade-based virtualization performance and is the first blade server to support 11 tiles and 66 Virtual Machines (VM) in VMmark testing. The PowerEdge M805 delivers the same number of DIMM slots in a two-socket blade that requires a four-socket blade from either HP or IBM.

In addition to the new servers, Dell announced full, high-speed 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel switches and mezzanine cards designed to provide customers increased bandwidth and performance. The company also announced an OEM solution from PlateSpin, a Novell company, including PlateSpin PowerConvert software, which enables enterprises to optimize their data center by streaming server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives.

The Dell PowerEdge M805 and M905 servers are now available worldwide with a starting price of USD 1,699 and USD 4,999 respectively.