Round Rock (TX) - Dell has updated its blade server portfolio and claims that its latest M-series eclipses its competition in power consumption and power efficiency.
The x86 blade server segment is what keeps the server market growing these days, so it should not be too surprising to see this market heating up. Dell, which is gaining some traction again in the PC and server markets, today announced a new line of blade servers, which the company claims consumes "19% less energy" that a comparable HP system and delivers "up to 28% more performance per watt" than rivals from IBM.
Similar to companies such as Sun, Dell now offers customers a program that allows customers simply upgrade blade server systems. Called "FlexIO switch technology", Dell promises that this approach enables companies "to efficiently design a networked blade environment that best meets their infrastructure requirements today, and easily and cost effectively add or modify network stacking and uplink capabilities as technology or business needs change."
