Dell makes UNIX to x86 migration easy with new PowerEdge R930 server

BANGALORE, INDIA: Dell announced an expansion of its 13^th generation PowerEdge servers including the PowerEdge R930, specifically designed for the most demanding enterprise applications such as in-memory databases, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India said “Enterprise applications today are pressed for better performance in organizations due to business demands, and data growth as a result of the forces of social, mobility, cloud and Big Data. The PowerEdge R930 has been developed with the aim of not just enabling customer to handle heavy enterprise application workloads that have arisen of new forces — but also enable them to deploy and configure it in lesser time. The device has compute at the core with flexibility to have more local storage with up to 24 drives with optional up to 8 PCIe Express Flash drives.”

With the PowerEdge R930, along with Dell software and services, many of these non-x86 customers can migrate from UNIX to Linux with ease and move to a more innovative, future-ready data center.

The PowerEdge R930 rack server can flexibly scale to optimize transactions and operations while reducing latency.

Organizations are increasingly turning to leading databases and analytics platforms such as Oracle 12c and SAP HANA running on Linux and x86 platforms. The PowerEdge R930 will serve as the hardware foundation for these appliances and integrated systems, helping customers speed time-to-value and maximize IT resource efficiency.

In addition to the PowerEdge R930 rack server, Dell is updating its PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge M1000e converged platforms, and introducing the PowerEdge FC830 and the PowerEdge M830 blade server as part of Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers.