Whether you’re a decision maker at a small- to medium-sized business or at a global enterprise, if you’re responsible for IT infrastructure investments, you likely face many ongoing challenges. One is maintaining a careful balance between two competing demands: the need to modernize your data center hardware, and the need to control costs. Amidst worldwide market uncertainty, it can be tempting to try to save money by extending server refresh cycles, even as computationally intensive workloads—such as AI—become more closely integrated with future workflows and trends. Our research and testing showed that sticking with older servers can end up costing you more in the long run, while some server upgrade paths can pay off by enhancing your company’s ability to embrace new AI workloads, improving management and security, and reducing ongoing costs.
To meet the modernization needs of various data center environments, Dell has introduced a line of PowerEdge servers equipped with 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors. These latest-gen systems can handle workloads ranging from AI to hyper-converged infrastructure setups, high-performance computing, virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and much more. In multiple studies, our tests showed that these new PowerEdge servers provided levels of performance improvement when compared to previous-generation counterparts that could allow for significant workload and hardware consolidation. In one analysis, we found that a new PowerEdge R7725 ran an AI workload 19 percent more effectively than a similarly configured previous-generation PowerEdge server. We also found that users could consolidate up to seven five-year-old servers into one new PowerEdge R7725 server—potentially saving up to 65 percent on CPU energy costs and up to 34 percent on licensing costs. Using fewer servers to do the same work may also free up rack and floor space while lowering maintenance and cooling requirements.
In addition, Dell offers a wide array of software and services—such as Dell OpenManage—to help bring efficiency and up-to-date management and security features to your data center. Our research found that OpenManage Enterprise offered 3.5 times as many security features as a competing server management solution.
Based on our testing and analysis, it’s clear that a decision to modernize your data center with the latest generation of Dell PowerEdge servers powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors may deliver serious benefits for performance, efficiency, and security. You may also win with potential consolidation-related savings on licensing, power, and cooling. That’s the type of win-win investment that can help position a company for success.
To learn more about the potential benefits of refreshing your data center with latest-gen Dell PowerEdge servers powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, check out the summary and detailed report below.
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