Star Dell Overhauls Server Line
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Jun 2006 18:38 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Dell launched on Wednesday a new generation of servers with Intel's latest dual-core server processors and new management tools. The new PowerEdge servers make up Dell's second batch of products that use dual-core Xeon chips from Intel. However, the earlier generation of servers, based on a chip code-named Paxville, weren't expected to be mass-market products. The PowerEdge 1950, 2900 and 2950, based on Intel's latest Xeon processor, known as Dempsey, will become the new bedrocks of Dell's server lineup.
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Dell servers
by Nathan on Wed 7th Jun 2006 21:37 UTC
Nathan
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2006-01-10

People actually use them?

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RE: Dell servers
by mym6 on Wed 7th Jun 2006 21:59 in reply to "Dell servers"
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2005-08-26

I like our dell servers, they're great. I'm just hoping the new ones use less power.

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RE: Dell servers
by eskaton on Wed 7th Jun 2006 22:10 in reply to "Dell servers"
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2006-06-07

Apparently you don't work for the gov't. PowerEdges are everywhere, at least at the fed level.

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RE[2]: Dell servers
by macisaac on Thu 8th Jun 2006 12:30 in reply to "RE: Dell servers"
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2005-08-28

if we're any indication, they're very big in large educational instistutions, we have a ton of them. (that and suns).

one very big weak point however is console management. there's no comparing drac with sun's alom/scs, not to mention openboot.

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RE: Dell servers
by Jody on Thu 8th Jun 2006 02:21 in reply to "Dell servers"
Jody Member since:
2005-06-30

Dell is 4th place in the world for server market share just behind #3 Sun.

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS00153905

That link is old but it is broken down like this:

IBM - 29.7%
HP - 26.7%
Sun - 10.2%
Dell - 9.8%

Dell may even be in front of Sun now (in volume) becasue with the exception of this last quarter (Q1) they have had strong server growth.

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