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BANGALORE, INDIA: Dell announced a full portfolio of 12th generation, and Intel Xeon processor E5-2600-basedblade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers and also announced that it will invest $700 million for its R&D activities in 2012.

B Rudramuni, executive director, Dell R&D Center, said, 12th generation servers are critical component of Dells enterprise business and they are designed to help our customers to do more. Dell designed and built its 12th Generation servers with input from more than 7,700 customer conversations in 17 countries across four continents. This year, Dell will be spending more than $700 million on R&D, the vast majority of which will go toward enterprise solutions offerings including servers, storage, services and networking.

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With its new PowerEdge servers Dell lays the foundation to extend its Fluid Data Architecture to the server. With Dell Express Flash, front accessible, swappable PCIe solid state disks connected directly to the server, Dell can provide up to 10.5 times more Microsoft SQL Server transactions per second than HDD storage.

It also features Dell CacheCade data accelerator and with this new generation of servers Dell extends its systems management capabilities with its second generation of embedded server management tools that efficiently manage the deployment, updating, monitoring and maintenance of server lifecycle. Dells new PowerEdge servers deliver bare-metal deployment.

Dell is also bringing a 'breath of fresh air' to all data centres with its 12th generation PowerEdge servers. With Dell fresh air IT equipment, a data centre can realize an estimated $3,000,000 in capital expenditures and even sustain at 45 degree celcius and 900 hours at a stretch, adds Rudramani.

S Sridhar, director, Enterprise Solutions Business, Global 500, India said, The large-scale memory capacity available on the new Dell PowerEdge servers could give the flexibility to significantly increase virtual machine consolidation. These are changes that will have a positive impact on an organizations bottom line.

EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays Dell also announced the next-generation EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays.

EqualLogic PS6110 Series: These arrays are configured with both optical (SFP+) and copper (10GBASE-T) 10GbE networking, supporting data centre flexibility. It features up to 72 terabytes in a single array and 1.2 petabytes in a single group.

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