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Shrink your footprint while gaining the latest in storage technology, embedded management, and other benefits
If your data center currently houses a bevy of legacy servers, you may wonder what the latest technology could do for your mission- critical database performance. In the Principled Technologies data center, we found that the Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R940 with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors handled over 3.14 times the workload transactions per minute (TPM) of an Oracle Database using the TPC-C-like HammerDB benchmark compared to a legacy Dell PowerEdge R920.
This large Oracle Database performance increase means that a single Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 could replace three of these 4U legacy servers, or 12U of servers, in just 3U of rack space, reducing the number of servers you must store, power, license, and manage and freeing up significant data center space. By moving to the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940, your organization also gets immediate access to NVMe drive technology, the latest in iDRAC management, and hardware that is less likely to need frequent, costly repair. By delivering all these benefits, consolidating your legacy servers onto new Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors can deliver real business benefits now while providing the capacity and workload acceleration to prepare your organization for future growth.