Dell intros Intel, AMD powered microservers

BANGALORE, INDIA: Storage company Dell introduces its third generation of microservers, PowerEdge C5000 line, including PowerEdge C5125 and C5220.

Dell says that it aims at IT hosting and Web 2.0 companies with its new range of microservers, which will use power, energy-efficient processors from both Intel and AMD.

The PowerEdge C5125 and C5220 come with up to 12 server nodes in 3U chassis supporting both AMD and Intel architectures, respectively.

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Reuters had reported that chip-maker Intel plans to create micro server chips that consume as little as 10 watts by 2012. Today, Intel’s Xeon server chips run at 45 or 30 watts.In the coming months, it will offer a 20-watt Xeon chip and a 10-watt Atom chip designed for servers.

Dell claims that the PowerEdge C5000 line can achieve up to four times more density while being up to 75 percent less to cool than comparable HP or IBM 1U servers.

Microservers are a new class of server designed for those use cases where multi-core CPU architecture and extensive virtualization are overkill. What these systems provide are multiple low-cost dedicated servers where one CPU is perfect for running single applications.

Dell claims that the latest generation of PowerEdge C5000 microservers offer one of world’s most dense and energy efficient systems featuring between eight to 12 individual server nodes in one 3U chassis.

"Our new PowerEdge C microservers further solidify our position as the premier vendor of specialized server solutions, leveraging our experience working with this unique set of customers and placing that power into the hands of a broader customer base including Web hosting and IT service providers,” Andy Rhodes, executive director of marketing, Dell Data Center Solutions.