Dell has introduced its third generation of microservers the PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220 for use in cloud environments. at WorldHostingDays.
Walk thru by Product Manager Deania Davidson. The system that Deania is showing off is the AMD-based PowerEdge C5125 which will be available next month. Also announced today is the Intel-based PowerEdge C5220 which will be out in May.
The PowerEdge C5125 and C5220 are optimized for dedicated and virtualized IT hosting and Web 2.0 environments. These microservers come with eight to 12 individual server nodes in one 3U chassis and can support both AMD and Intel architectures respectively. 4 x DDR3 UDIMMS, 2 x 3.5-inch or 4 x 2.5-inch HDDs, 2 x GbE ports, IPMI 2.0 management, iKVM, individually serviceable nodes, as well as a shared power and cooling infrastructure are the added features of PowerEdge C5000 line of microservers.
Commenting on the product Andy Rhodes, executive director of marketing, Dell Data Center Solutions said, “Over the last four years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the biggest data center operators in the world, whose complex environments require optimal efficiency. Our new PowerEdge C microservers further solidify our position as the premier vendor of specialized server solutions, leveraging our experience working with this unique set of customers and placing that power into the hands of a broader customer base including Web hosting and IT service providers“.
More info: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/enterprise/b/inside-enterprise-it/archive/2011/03/22/a-walk-thru-of-our-new-hyper-scale-inspired-microserver.aspx
