Web Hosts Influence Design of Dell's New Server Line

Working with Web hosting providers over the past four years led to Dell's new PowerEdge C5000 line.

French Web hosting provider, Online.net issued Dell a challenge it couldn’t refuse: build a unique server to enable low cost dedicated hosting and include enterprise functionality without sacrificing power or density.

So the Dell Data Center Solutions Group went to work and came up with the Fortuna server employing the Via Nano CPU delivering an incredibly low-power solution of 20-29 Watts/server at full load and 15 Watts/server at OS idle. Mission accomplished.

By working with data center operators and Web hosts over the past few years, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) decided to take it up a notch and released its third generation of microservers, the PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220.

These energy efficient microservers help to build out shared and cloud computing infrastructures by allowing applications to run on individual dedicated physical servers without compromising on price, power or density. And to drive that message home, Dell said the server line delivers up to four times more density while being up to 75 percent less to cool than comparable HP or IBM 1U servers.

So you’re probably asking: What do these units go for and what are the shipping costs? Dell will release those details by the end of April 2011.

Source: TopHosts.com Web Hosting Blog