Dell has announced that its Dell PowerEdge 13th generation servers, its most advanced and easy-to-manage server portfolio to-date, are gaining traction in the market.
Customers in more than 65 countries worldwide rely on Dell PowerEdge servers to address and optimise workloads at any level, which will now include over 20% improved performance with differentiated air-cooled support and over 12% enhanced memory bandwidth aligned to Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 updates; shipping today on the most advanced line up of Dell PowerEdge 13th generation rack, tower, blade and converged infrastructure architecture servers.
Mega-trends including social, mobile, analytics and cloud are rewriting the rules for IT. As a result, pressure on IT to deliver superior performance on a day-to-day basis and rapidly respond to changes in the business environment is greater than ever before. The design of the PowerEdge 13th generation servers helps customers address these challenges so they can focus on business growth and innovation.
Customers are driving the rise of the software defined data centre, using workload-oriented solutions that are increasingly compute-centric,” says Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice-president and GM of Dell Server Solutions.
“Dell’s global x86 leadership gains, particularly in blade servers, are a terrific indicator of how we deliver on these customer needs. Dell PowerEdge 13th generation servers include practical innovations, based on product knowledge that spans our 20-year history, to deliver the right functionality to enable customers’ future-ready datacentres.”
The PowerEdge R730 with the E5-2699 v4 processor delivers industry leading  2-socket Linux performance with a score of 21,050, a 27,6% performance improvement from the previous generation running the SAP SD 2 Tier (Linux) benchmark.
In addition, The E5-2699 v4 processor on the PowerEdge platform R630 can provide up to 30% uplift on the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmarking and 22,1% uplift in performance on SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmarking.
They also boast the fastest Intel processor available, and support for the E5-2689 v4 on the R730 with Dell differentiated air-cooled support offers a competitive advantage over liquid cooled solutions.
Meanwhile the E5-2699 v4 processor on the PowerEdge platform R630 can provide up to 12,6% uplift in performance on the STREAM (MB/s) benchmarking (memory bandwidth performance benchmark).
Dell PowerEdge 13th generation servers are available now with updated Intel technology:  R730, R730xd, R630, T630, M630, FC630, C4130, C6320.