Dell EMC advances leading
server portfolio
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ell EMC has announced several
advancements to Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers, a leading
server portfolio, offering improved
management, security, performance and
scalability for customers’ every day and
most demanding workloads.
These advancements to PowerEdge
servers and OpenManage systems
management further enable a secure,
scalable compute platform as the ideal
foundation for cloud, analytics and
software-defined data centre initiatives.
“Making the industry-leading PowerEdge
server portfolio even stronger, we are
enabling our customers to benefit
from additional automation, control
and security with more responsive and
powerful systems.”
According to IDC’s latest research, Dell
EMC continued to be No. 1 in both x86
server revenue and units shipped globally
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The analyst firm’s research found
worldwide server vendor revenues
increased 12.6 % year-over-year to
US$23.6 billion, during the fourth quarter
of 2018, marking the fifth consecutive
quarter of double-digit revenue growth
and the all-time high for total revenue in
any quarter ever.
For x86 servers, Dell EMC has held or
shared the number one position for revenue
for six consecutive quarters and for units
shipped for over the past two years.
Dell EMC offers advanced
infrastructure to tackle more
advanced workloads
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers deliver
an automated, secure and scalable
platform, allowing businesses to balance
operational efficiency and strategic
initiatives. This supports organisations
tasked with driving higher engagement
with customers and meeting strict SLAs
while adopting new workloads and
meeting new business objectives.
Advancements to Dell EMC PowerEdge
and Dell EMC OpenManage systems
management offer customers more control
to manage their server infrastructure and to
mitigate threats, backed by a new boost in
performance and scalability.
Among the new features, the introduction
of OpenManage FlexSelect Manage and
FlexSelect Secure provides improved
flexibility for managing and securing
PowerEdge systems.
Customers can expect to gain several new
benefits and capabilities:
Greater control
• • Launch of the FlexSelect Manage
architecture offers customers new
flexibility to choose among specific
OpenManage Enterprise capabilities.
Delivered first by an innovative power
management plug-in, this reduces the
number of consoles necessary to match
users’ own specific needs and further
streamline management efficiency.
• • New enhancements to the Redfish-
compliant Dell EMC RESTful API for
control of even more server operations
and devices including new flexibility
to manage servers directly from an
operating system in addition to a
typical management network. This
enables users to more easily integrate
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“As organisations rapidly keep pace with
growing sets of information and data,
they’re also adopting more advanced
applications to generate greater insights
with Digital Transformation efforts,” said
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President, Server
and Infrastructure Systems, Dell EMC.
in an industry that saw its greatest
demand ever during 2018.