I’ve blogged before about the PowerEdge R820’s superior industry-standard benchmark results using SPEC and TPC workloads. We can now add the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark to that list! The PowerEdge R820 , a 4-socket, 2U rack server, has surpassed...

This article was written by Phani MV Server consolidation is essential for running a datacenter efficiently. Consolidation enable: Reduced server sprawl and physical server requirements Better resource utilization and management Reduced power consumption Increased ROI Dell...

In early December 2012, I announced a joint blog series with Mattias Sundling, Dell vKernel Evangelist, “How Better Manage Your Cloud Series” on #DellSolves focusing on a series of excellent white papers from the Dell VKernel team. The blog series has now come to a finish and I wanted to...

This post was written by John Beckett, an engineer on the Dell Solutions Performance Anaylsis team For those customers running a Linux variant on Dell PowerEdge servers , have you ever wondered how to determine what physical core mapped to a particular CPU in the Operating System? How about the...

Disk drives being the performance bottlenecks for any computer systems seem like an eternal truth. There have always been efforts to get the block storage sub-system to deliver more and quicker. Over time, we have seen many caching schemes for performance enhancement; there are block caching solutions...

This post was written by John Beckett, an engineer on the Dell Solutions Performance Anaylsis team Dell PowerEdge customers wanting detailed BIOS tuning information for performance or power efficiency, look no further! The BIOS Performance and Power Guidelines for Dell PowerEdge 12 th Generation Servers...

Authored by Louis Barton, Solutions Performance Analysis Do you want to increase your datacenter’s performance capabilities while reducing its footprint? Wouldn’t you rather manage a sixth of your current server deployment? Wouldn't you like to increase your VM capacity by 10x over...

It’s one thing for blade server vendors to claim their blades have better power efficiency , and another thing entirely to prove it. Since the launch of our 12 th generation blade servers, Dell has published SPECpower results on all our newest blade servers. Meanwhile, HP hasn’t published...

HP recently touted that the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 blade had achieved four world records in the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark. With this week's launch of the Dell PowerEdge M820, a 4 socket blade based on Intel's new Xeon E5-4600 series processors, I wanted to highlight the M820's advantage over the...

This blog is posted on behalf of Vinod Kumar from Database Solutions Engineering team. Deploying a database workload on virtualized environment always seems to be a challenge because of its I/O intensive workloads. It would certainly great to see the scalability of concurrent database virtual machines...

Now, Dell has the latest data warehouse solutions incorporating the latest and greatest of database features from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 . Microsoft SQL Server 2012 comes with several exciting features which directly benefits the database environments. One of the important features, which impact...

Dell has been actively engaged in the SQL Server Fasttrack data warehouse program . Now, Dell has added another Fasttrack solution to its Data warehouse offerings list. This would be 3 rd fast track solution that has been delivered on 12 th generation PowerEdge servers (A 5TB solution (using R720XD)...

Dell has recently refreshed its data warehouse offerings with 12 th generation servers and the latest SQL server release, SQL server 2012 . These latest fast track offerings bring in the best of technology elements to offer a high performing and cost effective data warehousing solution. These reference...

This blog written by Don Hoffman, an engineer on the Solutions Performance Analysis team In a recent blog, I showed how much you can consolidate your datacenter with the Dell PowerEdge R820 versus older generation Dell servers. This is very useful data, but many of you may be wondering how the PowerEdge...

The records just keep coming with Dell PowerEdge 12 th generation servers! Less than a month ago, I announced two TPC-H world-record benchmarks using the Dell PowerEdge R720 and Actian Vectorwise . These results set records for both single-server performance and price/performance for 100GB and 300GB...

This post was written by Don Hoffman, an engineer on the Dell Solutions Performance Analysis team The recently announced Dell PowerEdge R820 offers customers an exciting option in the ultra-dense rack server space. In fact, the PowerEdge R820 was the only server featured in Intel’s announcement...

You may recall that just last year, Dell set database benchmark records with Vectorwise using the PowerEdge R910. Today, I’d like to announce two new TPC-H world record benchmarks using the Dell PowerEdge R720 and Actian Vectorwise . These results set records for both benchmark performance and...

Co-authored by John Beckett, Solutions Performance Analysis, and Mukund Khatri, Server Advanced Engineering When most customers think of Dell’s 12 th Generation PowerEdge servers, they focus on the impressive advances in core count, memory speed and capacity, I/O capabilities, and enhanced iDRAC...

This post was written by Narasimha Reddy Gopu Dell recently launched its 12th Generation PowerEdge™ servers , which feature advanced server innovations that address various needs and pain points for all types of customers. The 12th Generation servers are compact and energy- efficient systems...

This post was written by Ravikanth Chaganti an engineer on the Dell SharePoint Solutions team Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers offer advanced Dell server innovations to give you more power and the tools to harness it. The increased capacity of these new PowerEdge systems enhances the overall...

Reducing Datacenter Footprint for Exchange Server 2010 Deployments Whether you deploy your messaging solution on premise or in the cloud, if you deploy physical or virtual machines, a considerable portion of your total cost of ownership revolves around datacenter footprint. Datacenter footprint has...

Posted on behalf of Akshai Parthasarathy and Varun Kulkarni from Global Solutions Engineering. Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) software can manage data center infrastructure from a single interface, unlike a traditional deployment in which networking and servers are managed separately....

Written by Brian Bassett, Dell Solutions Performance Analysis engineer Dell already held the world record in power efficiency in the 4-socket space , achieved by the 8-node PowerEdge M915 [1] with AMD Opteron 6100-series processors. With today’s announcement of AMD’s Opteron 6200-series...

Recent studies released by Gartner suggest that about 80 percent of the data generated becomes stale after it is created. Often this data takes up storage space on disks spinning at 15K rpm. Another study by ESG indicated that companies are using only 40 to 50 percent of their usable storage capacity...

The following was authored by Ravikanth Chaganti on the Dell SharePoint Solutions Engineering team. SharePoint farms come in different shapes and sizes and there is no standard definition of how a SharePoint farm should look like. This introduces several complexities in sizing the hardware and storage...