INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres

Organisations are rethinking their IT strategies to respond to the rise of AI, the need to support both traditional and modern workloads, and increased cyber threats. IT teams are moving toward disaggregated infrastructure that abstracts compute, storage and networking into shared resource pools to deliver improved scalability, efficiency and adaptability.

“ Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with everchanging data centre demands,” said Doug Woolley, General Manager and Vice President, Dell Technologies South Africa.“ From storage to servers to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data centre modernisation.”

Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers with Intel Xeon 6 Processors with P-cores are single and double-socket servers in 1U and 2U form factors that easily handle demanding traditional and emerging workloads like HPC, virtualisation, analytics and AI inferencing:

Improves workload consolidation: Consolidate legacy platforms, freeing up power and up to 80 % of space per 42U rack with the Dell PowerEdge R770. These systems save up to half of the energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and support up to 50 % more cores per processor1 and 67 % increased performance. 2 This reduces data centre footprints to help achieve sustainability goals and lower overall total cost of ownership without sacrificing performance.

Delivers extreme power with efficiency: The powerful and efficient Dell PowerEdge R570 achieves record-breaking Intel performance per watt, helping enterprises save on energy costs while maintaining high performance workloads.

Future-ready designs: Simplify and futureproof operations with the Data Centre – Modular Hardware System, DC-MHS architecture as part of the Open Compute Project, OCP. DC-MHS standardises server design, supporting easier integration into existing infrastructure and improving customer choice.

Streamlined management: PowerEdge servers deliver streamlined management and robust protection through Dell OpenManage enhancements and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, IDRAC 10 updates, including real-time monitoring. When paired with the PERC13 PCIe Gen 5 HW Raid controller, customers can see up to a 33X reduction in write latency.

Doug Woolley, General Manager and Vice President, Dell Technologies South Africa

Dell PowerStore’ s intelligent software design delivers an automated, highly programmable platform with advanced data reduction and independently scalable storage services suited to the needs of modern disaggregated architectures. PowerStore’ s latest software release delivers:

AI-powered analytics: Reduce cost and eliminate manual effort with Smart Support alerts and remediation, performance headroom analytics and carbon footprint forecasting using Dell AIOps, formerly CloudIQ software.

Enhanced Zero-trust security: Control access and boost availability with smart card authentication, automated certificate renewal and enhanced Storage Direct Protection integrations that deliver up to 4X faster backup restores5 plus support for the latest Dell PowerProtect systems.

Advanced file system support: Enhance system performance with advanced file management capabilities, robust data protection with secure file snapshots, capacity insights for smarter storage planning and streamlined migration from Dell Unity systems. p

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