Dell Technologies today introduced performance expansions to its PowerEdge server portfolio that keep the vendor “laser focused on the needs of our customers as they navigate the complexity of what is clearly now a multicloud world,” Rajesh Pohani, Dell Technologies VP of portfolio and product management for PowerEdge, HPC, and core compute, said during a media briefing.

While multicloud is certainly sustaining its position of relevance, it's not the enterprise's final destination. “For customers, it's really an ongoing effort to optimize their operations around capacity, functionality, performance, and location,” Pohani said, citing Gartner research that shows 65% of IT leaders plan on deploying distributed cloud technologies in the next three years.

“While multicloud capabilities deliver large benefits, [they] also introduce complexity and uncertainty. Multiple clouds mean multiple security models, multiple tools, and multiple locations to manage,” he said. “Clearly, new solutions are required to deploy infrastructure into expanding areas like AI [artificial intelligence], edge, and cloud while improving security, complexity, and automation – and it has to be done in a sustainable, energy efficient, and cost effective way.”

Pohani noted the PowerEdge updates build upon the “strong lineage” of the existing portfolio and bring its core tenets to new product categories like machine learning (ML) and edge platforms. “We're refreshing the core portfolio with the latest and greatest technologies such as Intel's fourth-generation Xeon scalable processors and AMD's fourth-generation EPYC processors,” Pohani said.

The new servers – Dell PowerEdge HS5610, HS5620, and R760 – were specially designed for the environments in which they'll be deployed and were built to run particular sets of related workloads. These updates support the vendor's efforts “to deliver to customers the type of compute they need in the location that they need it while making the whole experience easy,” he said.

The PowerEdge HS5610 and HS5620 servers are designed for cloud service providers that manage large-scale or multi-vendor data centers. These two-socket servers are available in 1U and 2U form factors and include cold aisle serviceable configurations. “We built on the common foundation of our systems management capabilities to provide an easy experience for our customers throughout the product lifecycle,” he added.

Dell Tech is also launching purpose-built portfolios for AI, ML, and edge workloads and products optimized for communication service provider (CSP) workloads. According to Pohani, that purpose-built approach “allows us to directly address the growth opportunities at the edge in the CSPs while also optimizing the traditional data center environment,” which means the vendor can improve the delivered value of customers' compute resources, he explained.

In terms of sustainability, Pohani noted the new servers “provide highly efficient compute performance with the tools for customers to effectively monitor and manage energy consumption and carbon footprints and reduce data center energy intensity,” which are all becoming increasingly potent enterprise concerns.

IDC Research VP Kuba Stolarski similarly noted Dell's portfolio expansion “offers organizations significant improvements in efficient server operation alongside the raw performance gains in its newest generation of servers.”