Down To The Bedrock The latest generation of the PowerEdge server portfolio that Dell EMC unveiled at the Dell EMC World conference in May has finally hit the market. Most of it, at least. Five of the seven models in the new line become available this week while customers will have to wait until later in the year for two. Dubbed 14G, the fourteenth generation of the venerable PowerEdge line launches in lockstep with the release of Intel's new Xeon Scalable processors. Of course, that means PowerEdge 14G has plenty of competition, including Lenovo's rebranded ThinkSystem server line, which was introduced last month and also relies on Intel's latest processors Dell EMC intends 14G to be "the bedrock of the modern data center," and the portfolio will underpin a wide variety of Dell EMC systems, including the popular VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure offering, which hits the market with a starting price of about $25,000. Clearly, Dell EMC is intent on pushing growth in the server market as it consolidates. Dell EMC was the only major server vendor to show server revenue growth in the first quarter as the worldwide market declined nearly 5 percent, according to research firm IDC. Click through to see the most important aspects of the new PowerEdge 14G line.
The Foundation
#DellEMC shipped more than 465,000 servers in the first quarter, and part of its strategy for growing that number is making PowerEdge the basis for a broad selection of Dell EMC solutions. The new #14G servers will be the foundation of offerings that used the previous generation of #PowerEdge servers, including #VxRail appliances, #VxRack systems, the #Nutanix-based XC hyper-convergence offering, #vSAN ReadyNodes, #ScaleIO ReadyNodes, #IsilionSD Edge and #ElasticCloudStorage. PowerEdge servers will also be available in several new #DellEMC offerings, including the #DataDomain Appliance, #CloudArray, Ready Bundles, Ready Systems Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud and Dell EMC Cloud For #MicrosoftAzure Stack.
Traditional To Software-Defined
The new PowerEdge is part of what Dell EMC calls scalable business architecture, a system that allows customers to move from traditional to virtualized to cloud-native workloads in software-defined data centers more easily. The 14G portfolio is optimized for NVMe to help speed the deployment of software-defined data center and hyper-converged infrastructure with faster database and storage performance and faster migration of VMs. The company also says life-cycle management is easier and problems will be resolved nearly twice as fast as in the past through Dell EMC's ProSupport and Support Assist programs.
On Lockdown
Dell EMC counts security as one of the major selling points of its servers, and 14G continues that with cryptographically trusted booting, which includes Intel Boot Guard protection, signed firmware and automatic BIOS recovery, among other features. The PowerEdge portfolio also includes System Lockdown, which helps secure any system configuration from malicious or unintended changes and alerts users to any attempt to make system changes. The new servers also come with System Erase, which allows users to retire or repurpose 14G servers by quickly wiping data from storage devices and embedded memory.
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