If your RISC-based architecture isn’t meeting your needs, it’s time to look at today’s x86 platforms. Dell’s future-ready PowerEdge R930 provides the performance and reliability that mission-critical applications need.
Dell’s top-end four-socket PowerEdge server, the R930, must be on the shortlist for any enterprise that is looking at refreshing its RISC-based architecture. Enterprises whose productivity and success depend on large-scale, mission-critical applications have historically run high-end RISC platforms as the basis of their IT infrastructure. But in today’s computing environment, where x86 platforms have closed any significant performance and reliability gaps, enterprises should seriously reconsider x86 options to take advantage of their well-documented efficiencies. The R930, powered by Intel’s latest E7 processors (18-core maximum), not only rivals RISC performance, but in this latest generation, it also delivers the RAS capabilities required by applications that demand extremely high service levels. These sorts of applications include search-intensive data warehouses, highly concurrent online transaction processing, and high-performance computing (HPC). This paper describes five major points to help IT professionals evaluate the reliability and suitability of Dell’s x86-based enterprise environment.
