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As our testing shows, you can improve transactional database workload performance by replacing older servers with new ones. But new servers offer more than just performance boosts. By routinely replacing the servers in your data center, you can improve server management efficiency. New servers often have new or improved management features that make it easier for IT staff to roll out firmware updates, monitor the health of physical and virtual layers, and set up new applications and software.
Performance improvements come in part from faster and more robust compute, storage, and networking resources. The technological improvements in these resources make it easier to consolidate workloads onto a new server. Improved storage capacity allows the server to hold more data, and more processing power allows more users to access and use data.
The combination of performance, management, and consolidation benefits that come with handling more work on fewer servers can help your organization save money on capital and operational expenditures.
Replacing servers can also help IT teams holistically, allowing them to act like the strategists for organizational transformation they are rather than merely a support team. They can focus on helping ambitious developers create cutting-edge applications and workloads. Finally, regularly upgrading servers can help IT teams build a forward-looking model for IT service delivery, application modernization, and other key data center initiatives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 is a dense 1U, two-socket server. It features 24 DDR4 DIMM slots and up to 76.8 TB of storage.
To learn more about the Dell EMC PowerEdge R640, visit https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/poweredge-r640.
The latest from Intel, the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor platform offers Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum processors to support the workloads you run. According to Intel, the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable platform can handle a variety of workloads, including enterprise, cloud, HPC, storage, and communications.1 This new processor line also supports a new memory and storage technology to further accelerate workloads, Intel Optane DC persistent memory.
To learn more about the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor family, visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/2nd-gen-xeon-scalable-processors-brief.html.
1 Intel, “2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Brief,” accessed August 30, 2019, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/2nd-gen-xeon-scalable-processors-brief.html