Dell’s PowerEdge Line Completes 20 Years, Three New Modules Added

Dell announced three new modules for the PowerEdge FX portfolio, that use modular building blocks of IT resources. The company also announced that this month they are celebrating the 20-year anniversary of PowerEdge servers.

The new building blocks include:

• PowerEdge FD332, a half-width storage block that provides up to 16 direct-attached small form factor (SFF) storage devices (meaning customers can provision up to 48 SFF storage devices in a 2U FX2 chassis) that enables dense, highly-flexible, scale-out solutions. PowerEdge FX servers can be attached to a single FD332 or multiple FD332s, allowing customers to combine servers and storage in a wide variety of configurations to address specific processing needs.

·         PowerEdge FC430, a quarter-width, half-height server block that has the ability to host applications in smaller, physically discrete servers to minimize the risk of system failures. The FC430 features Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors, with up to 8 memory DIMMs and it has two versions – one with up to two 1.8-inch SATA flash drives that is ideal for mainstream enterprise workloads and distributed environments needing higher levels of reliability; and another with one 1.8-inch drive and an InfiniBand port that is ideal for applications needing lower levels of latency such as HPC and high frequency trading.

• PowerEdge FC830, a full-width, half-height 4-socket server block that runs a wide range of database driven, mission critical applications for midsize and large businesses.  The FC830 is powered by up to four next-generation multi-core Intel Xeon processors, has 3TB of memory, up to 8 PCIe expansion slots, up to sixteen 1.8-inch SATA flash drives or eight 2.5-inch drives, a dual-port 10Gb SNA and support for Express Flash NVMePCIe SSDs. The combination of performance and data access also makes this server ideal for large-scale virtualization or the database tier of WebTech and HPC environments.

“With PowerEdge FX, Dell gives customers more freedom than ever to build the converged infrastructure they need to solve business needs of today and into the future,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice president and general manager, Dell Server Solutions.

Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India said: “The new FX products package convenience for customers by addressing their need for flexibility and customization. The product has a distinct edge over competition; customers can now host 72 percent more users in 10 times less space with the new PowerEdge FX2 modules than the Cisco UCS. In a market like India where IT budgets are fairly tight, this provides the optimum server solution to address their workload demands, while still allowing the option of scaling up if necessary in the future.”

Availability

·         The Dell PowerEdge FC430 and FD332 are available around the world today

·         The Dell PowerEdge FC830 will be available in June 2015