Dell unveils AI-ready server, storage and data protection upgrades to boost performance, cut costs and modernise enterprise data centres
In a bid to support both traditional and emerging workloads while reducing complexity and environmental impact, Dell Technologies has released several advancements across its infrastructure portfolio.
The innovations, which span data protection, servers and storage, aim to tackle changing IT challenges like sustainability goals, hybrid workload demands and rising cyber threats.
Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies, says this infrastructure will help support agile and scalable data centres
“From storage to servers to networking to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data centre modernisation.”
How is AI reshaping the data centre industry?
AI is having a transformative impact across the data centre industry.
As AI workloads need massive parallel processing, low latency and high memory bandwidth, this has resulted in a shift to disaggregated, modular infrastructure to flexibly scale storage, compute and networking.
Data centers need to improve performance and scalability to handle the massive amounts of data that AI requires. This increases the need for high-speed connectivity to reduce congestion and high-performance storage systems.
AI workloads in data centres consume significantly more cooling and power resources. As a result of this, data centres must use renewable energy sources and track and reduce their carbon footprint.
Dell’s latest innovations reflect the company’s drive to craft a sustainable, dynamic and intelligent ecosystem that will support wider innovation and automation. AI will ensure data centres unlock digital transformation, innovation and enhanced decision-making.
Core Innovations Across Dell's Product Portfolio
Dell PowerEdge Servers
The R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers use 6th Gen Intel Xeon processors to deliver high performance, scalability and energy efficiency to meet the emerging demands of both traditional and modern workloads.
Enterprises can maintain high-performance workloads, save energy costs and unlock record-breaking Intel performance per watt through the Dell PowerEdge R570.
The Dell PowerEdge R770 consolidates legacy platforms to free up to 80% of space per 42U rack. This server can also offer 67% increased performance and support up to 50% more cores per processor.
DC-MHS architecture can also future-proof and simplify operations as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP).
PowerStore
Dell AIOps (formerly CloudIQ) provides AI-powered analytics to reduce manual effort and costs.
This platform can also provide performance headroom analytics and remediation and carbon footprint forecasting.
Organisations can access faster backup stores and enhanced zero-trust security through DoD smart card authentication support.
ObjectScale
ObjectScale's architecture has been modernized to deliver superior performance, scalability, and efficiency for AI workloads.
ObjectScale X560 can accelerate key workloads like media ingest, backups and AI model training with 83% read throughput, while ObjectScale XF960 can deliver up to two times greater throughput per node than the closest competitor and up to eight times greater density than previous-generation all-flash systems.
A new hybrid cloud solution, developed alongside Wasabi, will allow organisations to effectively secure and operate AI data lakes with global namespace, copy-to-cloud and data governance capabilities.
Source: https://datacentremagazine.com