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Over the past three years Dell’s Data Center Solutions group has been designing custom microservers for a select group of web hosters.  The first generation allowed one of France’s largest hosters, Online.net to enter a new market and gain double digit market share.  The second generation brought additional capabilities to the original design along with greater performance.

A few months ago we announced that we were taking our microserver designs beyond our custom clients and making these systems available to a wider audience.  Last month the AMD-based PowerEdge C5125 microserver became available and yesterday the Intel-based PowerEdge C5220 microserver made its debut.   Both are ultra-dense 3U systems that pack up to twelve individual servers into one enclosure.

To get a great overview of  both the 12 sled and 8 sled versions of the new C5220 system, let product manager Deania Davidson take you on a quick tour:

Target use-cases and environments

• Hosting applications such as dedicated, virtualized, shared, static content, and cloud hosting
• Web 2.0 applications such as front-end web servers
• Power, space, weight and performance constrained data center environments such as co-los and large public organizations such as universities, and government agencies

Extra-credit reading

• PowerEdge C5220 microserver: Tech specs
• Intel’s Jason Waxman on Sandy Bridge, Atom and our new Intel-based Microserver
• DCS brings its experience to a wider Web Hosting audience — announcing PowerEdge C microservers
• DCS Microserver allows French hoster to enter new market (and grab big market share)
• And on the other end of the spectrum — Microservers

Pau for now..,

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