Dell has announced the next-generation of PowerEdge FX architecture, combining efficient management of IT building blocks of server, storage and networking to optimize both modern and legacy workloads, bridging from a traditional data center to software-defined data center. The next-generation Dell PowerEdge FX architecture is Dell’s revolutionary approach to combining the best elements of blades and racks into one common modular platform with storage and networking integrated to help customers better manage, scale and budget for infrastructure to meet business needs.
Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Software-defined data centers represent the IT infrastructure of the future and will bring greater levels of flexibility to enterprises by allowing them to optimize their IT environments to meet specific workload needs. Today, with the launch of our new products across the data center, we enable our customers to future proof their environments and embrace the 'software-defined revolution', while minimizing the impact to legacy infrastructure, with 'never-before' infrastructure flexibility also embedded, comes a comprehensive and intelligent management system which allows skilled manpower typically used to right-size and manage the environment to focus on improving business results."
The next-generation PowerEdge FX architecture is a 2U enclosure with six new PowerEdge server, storage and network IOA sleds built specifically to fit into the FX2 chassis and support varying workloads. Designed with integrated management capabilities, the FX architecture enables customers to easily configure, manage and add capacity to complete workload-specific blocks of IT resources.
This converged infrastructure approach affords efficiencies of shared power, I/O and management, integrated switching, and unsurpassed overall density capabilities at up to 402-socket servers in 10U. Building on Dell’s recent PowerEdge thirteenth-generation server portfolio announcement, the next-generation PowerEdge FX2 also includes advanced systems management capabilities to reduce operational complexity and simplify data center management.
