Dell is claiming to have set a new standard for datacentre
energy efficiency and flexibility with its new PowerEdge M-Series
blade servers.
The PC giant says that with its new range it fundamentally
wanted to help customers
simplify information
technology and better address mounting environmental challenges
in their datacentres. Indeed, dell says that the new devices will
enable businesses to save on power and cooling costs while
increasing server capacity.
“Blade offerings have been long on promises and short on helping
customers address the growing costs and complexity in their
datacentres,” commented Brad Anderson, senior vice president,
Dell Business Product Group. “The PowerEdge M-Series delivers on
those promises with unmatched energy efficiency, flexibility,
performance and manageability. It enables customers to achieve the
compute performance they need while lowering their overall power
consumption and reducing data centre complexity and server
sprawl.”
The PowerEdge M1000e, a 10U-sized enclosure, supports 16 blade
servers and is optimised for Dell’s PowerEdge M600 and M605 blade
servers which are alcimed to be 60% more dense than standard 1U
servers, thus helping customers to better address datacentre space
constraints.
Dell also believes the new platform m is ideal for
virtualisation and consolidation as it enables customers to
consolidate their datacentre operations and improve utilisation
without sacrificing performance. The ability to provision virtual
machines and physical machines in the same blade server chassis
simplifies deployment and management of a virtualised
environment.
Dell’s OpenManage systems
management suite is available with the PowerEdge M-Series to
simplify IT operations and help reduce the cost and complexity of
managing computing resources. OpenManage provides a holistic view
of datacentre infrastructures to allow IT professionals to make
more informed IT management decisions. This includes centralised
chassis management, dynamic power management and real-time
reporting for enclosure and blade power consumption.