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Dell Technologies new PowerEdge 16th Generation servers are purpose-built, cyber-resilient, intelligent, and designed to support today’s IT challenges. The Dell PowerEdge server portfolio provides cutting edge performance and adaptability, helping customers run transformational workloads such as virtualization, databases and analytics, software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), containerization, HPC, AI, and ML.
When VMware announced vSphere 8 at VMware Explore 2022, there were significant new features, such as vSphere Distributed Services Engine, formerly known as Project Monterey, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0, Lifecycle Management, Guest OS and Workloads, Security and Compliance, and so on.
A second wave of compelling features and enhancements was announced with the release of vSphere 8 Update 1. With this update release, customers benefit from enhanced operational efficiency in administration, supercharged performance for higher-end AI/ML workloads, core storage enhancements, and elevated security across the environment. vSphere 8 revolutionized the enterprise virtualization platform with many new features and enhancements for performance, scalability, and security.
As organizations look forward to upgrade or modernize their existing legacy systems, or to expand their data center footprint, this document describes some of the features to evaluate.