HP, IBM, Dell Ship Ivy Bridge Servers

Intel’s new Xeons – including the low-power E3, based on its 22-nanometre Ivy Bridge architecture and featuring the chip maker’s 3D Tri-Gate transistor architecture – are designed for greater performance and better power efficiency than their predecessors, giving enterprises what Intel officials are calling pathways from two- to four-socket systems, and smaller businesses avenues to move from single- to dual-socket servers.

HP officials said the new systems are designed to not only offer better performance, however also simpler maintenance and improved uptime. The new servers, aimed at small and midsize businesses and powered by Intel’s Xeon ES-2400 chips, include the ProLiant DL360e 1U and DL380e 2U rack servers, which feature better serviceability, compute capabilities and storage capacity.

The ProLiant DL385p 2U rack server for virtualisation

HP as well is putting AMD’s Opteron 6200 Series chips into the ProLiant DL385p 2U rack server for virtualisation, database and high-performance computing workloads, and the BL465c Gen8, which HP officials said is the first blade server with 2,000 cores per rack for virtualisation, database and HPC tasks.

IBM as well is rolling out new Xeon-based servers that include an energy-efficient blade and a rack system that enables businesses to migrate from two- to four-socket systems.

The blade system is the BladeCentre HS23E aimed at SMBs that includes support for various networking technologies. It offers up to eight networking ports of Ethernet for other networking protocols, and brings up to 42 percent better performance than previous IBM systems, company officials said. Just in case, IBM’s FastSetup feature offers automatic server setup, speeding up deployment time from days to minutes.

Four-socket rack server

IBM as well unveiled a four-socket rack server, the System x3750, aimed at technical computing environments. Included in the server is IBM’s eXFlash storage innovation and up to 25 percent more memory performance, according to officials.

In addition, IBM is introducing new rack servers for SMBs, including the System x3630 M4, a storage-dense system for cloud, department-level virtualisation, virtual storage and database workloads, and the x3530 M5, a dense dual-socket system for financial applications, web services, retail point-of-sale and network infrastructure workloads.

Dell is adding to its 12th-generation PowerEdge systems, which officially launched in March, with new blade, rack and tower systems that officials said are aimed at offering both improved performance and greater value. Sally Stevens, vice president of platform marketing at Dell, said that during there has been a recovery in the economy, that recovery has been “inconsistent”, and businesses are all in all conscious of the situation.

New PowerEdge systems unveiled on 14 May and running on Intel’s Xeon E5-2400 and E5-4600 chips give businesses greater energy efficiency and performance as so then as scalable storage, networking and security capabilities, Dell officials said.

The offerings are the PowerEdge R820 – a 2U

Included in the offerings are the PowerEdge R820 – a 2U, four-socket system – and the PowerEdge M420 – a quarter-height two-socket blade server that enables extreme computational density, performance and efficiency. Businesses using Dell’s PowerEdge M1000e chassis can fit up to 32 M420 blades in a single 10U chassis, according to officials.

The M820 blade systems offer extra memory to enable businesses to grow as demand requires, and Dell is adding more memory capacity and I/O bandwidth in its newest generation of rack and tower servers.