Performance and Functionality

Performance, Power Savings, Flexible Features

Dell blades provide an exceptional combination of performance, power savings and flexibility.

Dell blades have the following advantages:

  • Our blade solution offers one of the best performance per watt ratings in the industry.
  • Our patented FlexAddress™ technology ties Media Access Control (MAC) and World Wide Name (WWN) addresses to blade slots — not to servers or switch ports — so reconfiguring your setup is as simple as sliding a blade out of a slot and replacing it with another.
  • Our I/O (input/output) options provide throughput equal to or better than the competition — without making you buy excess switches.
  • Our modular I/O options give you the flexibility to adapt to the latest technologies.
  • Our full-height blades offer fully redundant I/O to the motherboard.
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  1. Inside Enterprise IT Blog

    The Power to Do More — Servers that Perform

    24 Feb 2011

    PowerEdge blade, rack and tower servers have once again leapfrogged the competition by offering significant gains in performance with the latest Intel Xeon 5600 series refresh. Learn more in this Inside Enterprise IT blog article.

  2. Blade Power Study

    Power Efficiency Comparison of Enterprise-Class Blade Servers

    11 Aug 2010

    Energy costs continue to demand larger portions of organizational budgets. So Dell commissioned its Server Performance Analysis team to compare the power draw and performance per watt of blade solutions from Dell, HP and IBM.

  3. poweredge-m910-datasheet.pdf

    Dell PowerEdge M910

    21 May 2010

    The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers are designed to help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, scalability, product flexibility and efficient use of data center space.

  4. poweredge-m710-hp-blade.pdf

    Total Cost of Ownership: PowerEdge M710 and ProLiant BL685c G5 Blades

    21 May 2010

    In this comparison of the Dell PowerEdge M710 server solutions to the the HP Proliant BL685c server solutions, the Dell PowerEdge server yielded significant total cost of ownership savings per rack, chassis and blade.

  5. Data Center Efficiency Without Starting Over

    25 Nov 2009

    Bulldozing your existing data center and starting from scratch isn’t necessary. Watch this 60-minute InformationWeek Webcast to find out how strategic changes can help you adapt your existing data center to get the added efficiency you seek.

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    Dell Delivers Performance and Energy Efficiency over HP and IBM Servers

    01 Jun 2009

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    Dell PowerEdge blade servers are designed for high performance and efficient energy use. They provide higher peak performance and lower power consumption over the HP or IBM blade servers.

  7. PowerEdge M905 Performance & Power Consumption

    PowerEdge M905 Performance and Power Consumption Competitive White Paper

    01 Oct 2008

    Principled Technologies shows how Dell quad-processor blade systems provide better performance per watt, power consumption and price performance than similar HP and IBM solutions.

  8. Performance Power Consumption

    SPECjbb2005 Performance and Power Consumption: Dell Blade Servers

    01 Dec 2007

    A third-party evaluation shows that the Dell PowerEdge M600 blade solution offers better performance/watt than blade solutions from IBM and HP.