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Dell is pitching its second blade server line to penny pinchers.
The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker on Monday unveiled the PowerEdge 1855, a blade server that it says offers more performance and lower costs than its standard 1U, or 1.75-inch, rack mount servers.
Dell's aim in creating the dual-processor PowerEdge 1855 was to pack more computing power into a square foot, to bring down expenses and to finally make good on what it says is blade servers' unrealized promise of offering more bang for the buck.
As previously reported, up to 60 PowerEdge 1855 blades fit into a standard 42U, or roughly 6-foot, server rack, using six 12.25-inch chassis, each of which houses 10 blades. The blades stand side by side, like books in a bookcase, inside each chassis.
Dell says the PowerEdge 1855, which starts at $1,699, costs 25 percent less than its 1U rack-mount servers. The computer maker also says its blades will save more on utilities by consuming less power and generating less heat, requiring less air conditioning than its 1U servers. Blades are also designed to reduce the number of cables used and to take up less real estate in a company server room.
Dell envisions customers using the blades to replace large numbers of standalone servers, to serve Web pages, to host applications and even to crunch numbers in high-performance clusters.
 News source: ZDNET
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