With the launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers have taken performance to new levels. Supporting Dell’s strategy to drive more complete and cost-effective enterprise technologies across various customer environments, the PowerEdge M605, 2970, SC1435 and 6950 platforms now offer AMD’s new quad-core processors.

By offering a simple and seamless upgrade path to the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, Dell provides customers who use these PowerEdge platforms with investment protection and long term server value.

Dell’s two-socket servers, including the PowerEdge SC1435, 2970 and M605, equipped with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, can deliver up to 79 percent better performance compared to the same servers operating with dual-core AMD Opteron1.

With the addition of its new T605 tower server, Dell today expanded its PowerEdge server line. The PowerEdge T605, equipped with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, achieves up to 23 percent better performance than the HP ProLiant ML350 G52. The T605 is ideal for small and medium businesses or remote locations and offers high-availability features such as redundant power supplies, hot plug hard drives, and remote management features to help increase uptime and prevent loss of data access.

Director of PowerEdge Servers, Dell Product Group, Sally Stevens, said: “Our PowerEdge servers deliver on Dell’s commitment to simplify IT by providing customers with a seamless and simple upgrade path to quad-core, making it easier and quicker for them to realize the benefits of these advanced processors”. “Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors running on Dell PowerEdge servers delivers the right balance of performance, energy efficiency and price for customers while helping to accelerate our vision of scale-out computing in the enterprise.”
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