The document compares the storage performance of Dell PowerEdge R750 and R740xd servers with mixed SAS and NVMe drives. In FIO benchmark tests, the R750 with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID controller handled over 7.5 million more IOPS in random read workloads and maintained over twice the throughput in 1MB sequential read workloads compared to the R740xd with a Gen3 controller. The higher performance of the R750 could enable companies to handle more storage requests and throughput to better meet evolving demands.
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Achieve more storage performance w/ Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 switches vs. a PowerEdge R740xd server equipped with Broadcom PCIe Gen3 switches
Database server comparison: Dell PowerEdge R630 vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD550Principled Technologies
We tested the OLTP performance of a 1U Dell PowerEdge R630, powered by Intel Xeon processors E5-2660 v3, running Microsoft Hyper-V and virtual machines running SQL Server 2014, and compared it to that of the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 running the same software. For each server, we selected the maximum SATA SSD count that was configurable for each model. The Dell PowerEdge R630 outperformed the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 by 14.9 percent and offered more than one and a half times the storage space for data in our configuration.
By selecting a server that handles more orders per minute and offers significantly more storage capacity potential than the competition, you get a not only faster, efficient experience for your database users, but also have the scaling potential for your storage needs ahead of your business growing.
Data proliferation and machine learning: The case for upgrading your servers ...Principled Technologies
Principled Technologies examined the performance improvements and cost savings associated with upgrading to the 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R7625 for machine learning algorithms
Conclusion
As data proliferates and the sizes of databases grow, the potential to unlock valuable insights from them becomes increasingly dependent on fast architectures that can handle compute-intensive machine learning workloads such as k-means clustering and Bayesian inference. By upgrading to the latest servers, organizations can scale their processing power to meet the growing demands of their databases.
Larger databases and more powerful algorithms have the potential to give organizations a competitive edge. Faster servers can improve the accuracy of data-driven decisions by allowing organizations to use more complex algorithms and update ML models more frequently. To consider just two examples, improved performance could allow an e-commerce company to make better recommendations to customers and a financial services company to assess risks more accurately.
When we compared the machine learning performance of a 16G Dell PowerEdge R7625 server powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 64-core processors with Broadcom NICs and PERC 11 storage controllers to a previous-generation PowerEdge server, we found performance enhancements in terms of throughput and speed, whether running k-means clustering or Bayesian workloads. These findings suggest that organizations that rely on machine learning algorithms might gain performance advantages by upgrading to the latest generation of these Dell servers.
Consolidate and upgrade to save up to $172K: Dell PowerEdge R620 and Microso...Principled Technologies
Your growing business needs upgraded infrastructure to keep up with increased users and demand on your hardware. Adding memory and upgrading processors does not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge R620 running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while saving money and rack space.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge R620 can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL Server database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R620 and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $172,573 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers. The Dell PowerEdge R620 can also consolidate 8U worth of legacy servers into 1U of space. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
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Achieve more storage performance w/ Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 switches vs. a PowerEdge R740xd server equipped with Broadcom PCIe Gen3 switches
Database server comparison: Dell PowerEdge R630 vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD550Principled Technologies
We tested the OLTP performance of a 1U Dell PowerEdge R630, powered by Intel Xeon processors E5-2660 v3, running Microsoft Hyper-V and virtual machines running SQL Server 2014, and compared it to that of the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 running the same software. For each server, we selected the maximum SATA SSD count that was configurable for each model. The Dell PowerEdge R630 outperformed the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 by 14.9 percent and offered more than one and a half times the storage space for data in our configuration.
By selecting a server that handles more orders per minute and offers significantly more storage capacity potential than the competition, you get a not only faster, efficient experience for your database users, but also have the scaling potential for your storage needs ahead of your business growing.
Data proliferation and machine learning: The case for upgrading your servers ...Principled Technologies
Principled Technologies examined the performance improvements and cost savings associated with upgrading to the 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R7625 for machine learning algorithms
Conclusion
As data proliferates and the sizes of databases grow, the potential to unlock valuable insights from them becomes increasingly dependent on fast architectures that can handle compute-intensive machine learning workloads such as k-means clustering and Bayesian inference. By upgrading to the latest servers, organizations can scale their processing power to meet the growing demands of their databases.
Larger databases and more powerful algorithms have the potential to give organizations a competitive edge. Faster servers can improve the accuracy of data-driven decisions by allowing organizations to use more complex algorithms and update ML models more frequently. To consider just two examples, improved performance could allow an e-commerce company to make better recommendations to customers and a financial services company to assess risks more accurately.
When we compared the machine learning performance of a 16G Dell PowerEdge R7625 server powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 64-core processors with Broadcom NICs and PERC 11 storage controllers to a previous-generation PowerEdge server, we found performance enhancements in terms of throughput and speed, whether running k-means clustering or Bayesian workloads. These findings suggest that organizations that rely on machine learning algorithms might gain performance advantages by upgrading to the latest generation of these Dell servers.
Consolidate and upgrade to save up to $172K: Dell PowerEdge R620 and Microso...Principled Technologies
Your growing business needs upgraded infrastructure to keep up with increased users and demand on your hardware. Adding memory and upgrading processors does not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge R620 running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while saving money and rack space.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge R620 can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL Server database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R620 and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $172,573 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers. The Dell PowerEdge R620 can also consolidate 8U worth of legacy servers into 1U of space. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
The PowerEdge R750 solution boosted performance compared to a previous-generation PowerEdge R740 with PERC 10
Conclusion
Companies increasingly turn to big data applications to solve business problems such as understanding customer habits and behavior, maintaining electronic health records, and detecting fraud. In a 2022 survey of executives, 97.0 percent had invested in big data initiatives, and 73.7 percent said their organizations had appointed a Chief Data Officer (CDO), up from 12 percent in 2012.
With so much data at play, storage becomes an essential consideration for companies as they select hardware platforms to run their vital workloads. Two primary requirements for storage are fast performance and redundancy. Companies seek storage that can quickly put actionable insights into the hands of decision makers. At the same time, it is a fact of life that storage media occasionally fails, and no company wants to risk the potentially very large expense of losing vital business data.
In our testing with a disk-intensive TeraSort big data workload, we found that a current-generation Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom-based Dell PERC 11 RAID controller with NVMe SSDs outperformed a previous-generation PowerEdge R740 server with a Dell PERC 10 RAID controller. The newer PowerEdge R750 solution completed the workload in 13.9 percent less time and with 16.3 percent better throughput, indicating that it could speed the delivery of insights to decision makers. With its PERC 11 RAID controller, it also offers RAID support for today’s speedy NVMe SSDs. Data-driven organizations must weigh the cost savings of putting off purchases of newer servers against the benefits of investing in those same newer, more powerful servers with RAID support for NVMe drives. Our testing shows that with the Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom technology-based Dell PERC 11 RAID controller, buyers need not choose between redundancy and high performance.
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
Data proliferation and machine learning: The case for upgrading your servers ...Principled Technologies
Principled Technologies examined the performance improvements and cost savings associated with upgrading to the 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R7625 for machine learning algorithms
Conclusion
As data proliferates and the sizes of databases grow, the potential to unlock valuable insights from them becomes increasingly dependent on fast architectures that can handle compute-intensive machine learning workloads such as k-means clustering and Bayesian inference. By upgrading to the latest servers, organizations can scale their processing power to meet the growing demands of their databases.
Larger databases and more powerful algorithms have the potential to give organizations a competitive edge. Faster servers can improve the accuracy of data-driven decisions by allowing organizations to use more complex algorithms and update ML models more frequently. To consider just two examples, improved performance could allow an e-commerce company to make better recommendations to customers and a financial services company to assess risks more accurately.
When we compared the machine learning performance of a 16G Dell PowerEdge R7625 server powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 64-core processors with Broadcom NICs and PERC 11 storage controllers to a previous-generation PowerEdge server, we found performance enhancements in terms of throughput and speed, whether running k-means clustering or Bayesian workloads. These findings suggest that organizations that rely on machine learning algorithms might gain performance advantages by upgrading to the latest generation of these Dell servers.
File server performance on the Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd ...Principled Technologies
Many growing businesses employ a combination of HDDs and SSDs in their datacenters to provide storage for users. Software-defined storage additions, such as Windows Storage Spaces, can help improve workload performance by using tiering and caching technologies with enabling hardware. When combined with this software, the new Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd can provide storage support for the increasing workload performance of your business. We found that the PowerEdge R730xd provided support for 16.5 times more file server IOPS, and up to 94.7 lower latency, than the PowerEdge R720xd. If your business needs storage and performance to support its growth, consider the new Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
Boosting performance with the Dell Acceleration Appliance for DatabasesPrincipled Technologies
If your business is expanding and you need to support more users accessing your databases, it’s time to act. Upgrading your database infrastructure with a flash storage-based solution is a smart way to improve performance without adding more servers or taking up very much rack space, which comes at a premium. The Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases addresses this by providing strong performance when combined with your existing infrastructure or on its own.
We found that adding a highly available DAAD solution to our database application provided up to 3.01 times the Oracle Database 12c performance, which can make a big difference to your bottom line. Additionally, the DAAD delivered 3.14 times the database performance when replacing traditional storage completely, which could enable your infrastructure to keep up with your growing business’ needs.
Get better Oracle Database performance when you upgrade to the Dell PowerEdge...Principled Technologies
Compared to the previous-gen Dell PowerEdge R7525 with PERC 11
Even if your Oracle Database servers are running well, you could improve performance by switching out previous-generation hardware for the latest technology. Our testing found that this was true for various OLTP workload types, including a CPU-targeted database workload, an IO-targeted workload, and a Balanced CPU/IO workload, with the Dell PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 offering as much as 2.39 times the Oracle Database performance that the previous-gen PowerEdge R7525 with PERC 11 did. In addition, the PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 had lower %iowait across the board, again showing that upgrading to the latest-generation server can improve database performance for various workload profiles. By moving to a new PowerEdge R7625, your
organization can support more customers and realize better system efficiency, which ultimately provides the opportunity to consolidate onto fewer systems to reduce operating costs.
Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server solutions for virtual desktop infrastructures Principled Technologies
Getting more value out of your servers is a smart way to reduce datacenter and VDI costs. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge R720 server not only cost up to 5.4 percent less per user than the HP server, it also consumed 3.8 percent less power per virtual desktop user than the HP server when running workloads. When extrapolated over an entire rack of servers and with datacenters full of these racks, the potential savings both in hardware costs and in power costs could be dramatic.
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Our testing found that using new Dell EMC™ servers, Toshiba Memory SSDs,and Microsoft® software in both Windows® and Linux® environments can yield big performance gains versus legacy hardware and software
A single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 solution delivered better value on a...Principled Technologies
If your company is running important business applications in VMware vSAN clusters of servers that are several years old, chances are good that you’re considering upgrading to newer hardware. Our testing demonstrated that our clusters of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers and clusters of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could both improve upon the database performance of a legacy cluster with five-year-old servers by more than 50 percent, with the Dell EMC cluster achieving 93.4 percent of the performance of the HPE cluster.
The new Dell PowerEdge R720 comes with more than just the power to handle your heavy mixed workloads – it offers many storage solutions to deliver the level of performance you need. In our tests, we found that that a configuration of all HDDs could support a total of 1,164 users accessing database, mail, and collaboration applications. The Dell PowerEdge R720 solution with CacheCade enabled increased the supported number of users to 2,929, an increase of 151.6 percent. Finally, the Hybrid solution increased the number of users to 7,574, or an increase of 550.7 percent over the HDD solution, providing you with numerous options and scalability to get the performance you need.
Handle more Oracle transactions and support more VMs with the Dell PowerEdge ...Principled Technologies
Compared to the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 with Smart Array P440ar Controller
If your organization runs Oracle Database for OLTP workloads, moving to a Dell PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 could be a choice that improves your overall performance and allows you to consolidate your data center hardware. In our tests, the PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 delivered 6.3 times the total NOPM and supported 2.5 times the number of VMs the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server did. By harnessing the power of the latest in RAID controller technology, the PowerEdge R7625 can provide an upgraded Oracle Database experience compared to the competitor we tested.
Run more data analysis more quickly using Dell PowerEdge R760 serversPrincipled Technologies
The latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, performed more data analysis in less time than either older server we tested
Data analytics can play a critical role in understanding your organization. With timely data analysis, decision‑makers can respond to trends or activity quickly and with the support of data-driven insight. New Dell PowerEdge R760 servers, either in addition to or in place of aging servers, can boost data warehouse workload performance to deliver insights sooner. In our testing, a latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed 20 data analytics workloads in up to 41 percent less time than older Dell PowerEdge R750 and PowerEdge R740xd servers.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to Samsung NVMe PC...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with a caching solution. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs. The upgraded configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs delivered up to 13.9 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle VM Server 3.2.8 with Oracle Database 12c VMs achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 could perform five times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server; the costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge would be 43 percent less than the five servers it could replace. The three-year software licensing costs of the Dell PowerEdge R920 server would be 22 percent lower than the licensing costs for the five-server solution. These dramatic savings—which come out to $212,091 for our single test environment — could grow to millions of dollars in a larger consolidation effort.
As the needs of your business grow, so must the power of your server infrastructure. Rather than purchasing replacement servers with base configurations, consider upgrading key components to ensure you get the performance you need.
We found that upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R720 with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, Intel SSD DC S3700 series drive, and Intel Ethernet CNA X520 series adapters supported 4.5 times as many VMs as the previous-generation Dell PowerEdge R710 solution.
When you purchase a server, wisely selecting these components offered by Dell and Intel can allow your business to hit the sweet spot of supporting all your users without breaking the bank. Incremental upgrades also leave room to grow and help your infrastructure handle growth for years to come.
Finally, these select upgrades could translate to savings for your business—fewer servers you need to purchase now to meet performance demands, and a longer lifespan for these servers as your business continues to grow.
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI perf...Principled Technologies
Additionally, PowerEdge R6515 servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors could lower licensing costs and also empower your business to explore Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu
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Enterprises and SMBs need servers that can provide reliable performance with the ability to scale out to match growth. The Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 and the ThinkServer SA120 DAS array can run transactional applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server while providing scalable storage to support these critical workloads. We found that in the HDD configuration, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 DAS device provided support for 3,800 Exchange users. When we added just two Intel 400GB SSDs as a CacheCade volume, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 not only supported 5,300 users—a 39.5 percent increase—but did so while improving response time 33.9 percent.
Investing in GenAI: Cost‑benefit analysis of Dell on‑premises deployments vs....Principled Technologies
Conclusion
Diving into the world of GenAI has the potential to yield a great many benefits for your organization, but it first requires consideration for how best to implement those GenAI workloads. Whether your AI goals are to create a chatbot for online visitors, generate marketing materials, aid troubleshooting, or something else, implementing an AI solution requires careful planning and decision-making. A major decision is whether to host GenAI in the cloud or keep your data on premises. Traditional on-premises solutions can provide superior security and control, a substantial concern when dealing with large amounts of potentially sensitive data. But will supporting a GenAI solution on site be a drain on an organization’s IT budget?
In our research, we found that the value proposition is just the opposite: Hosting GenAI workloads on premises, either in a traditional Dell solution or using a managed Dell APEX pay-per-use solution, could significantly lower your GenAI costs over 3 years compared to hosting these workloads in the cloud. In fact, we found that a comparable AWS SageMaker solution would cost up to 3.8 times as much and an Azure ML solution would cost up to 3.6 times as much as GenAI on a Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. These results show that organizations looking to implement GenAI and reap the business benefits to come can find many advantages in an on-premises Dell solution, whether they opt to purchase and manage it themselves or choose a subscription-based Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. Choosing an on-premises Dell solution could save your organization significantly over hosting GenAI in the cloud, while giving you control over the security and privacy of your data as well as any updates and changes to the environment, and while ensuring your environment is managed consistently.
Workstations powered by Intel can play a vital role in CPU-intensive AI devel...Principled Technologies
In three AI development workflows, Intel processor-powered workstations delivered strong performance, without using their GPUs, making them a good choice for this part of the AI process
Conclusion
We executed three AI development workflows on tower workstations and mobile workstations from three vendors, with each workflow utilizing only the Intel CPU cores, and found that these platforms were suitable for carrying out various AI tasks. For two of the workflows, we learned that completing the tasks on the tower workstations took roughly half as much time as on the mobile workstations. This supports the idea that the tower workstations would be appropriate for a development environment for more complex models with a greater volume of data and that the mobile workstations would be well-suited for data scientists fine-tuning simpler models. In the third workflow, we explored tower workstation performance with different precision levels and learned that using 16-bit floating point precision allowed the workstations to execute the workflow in less time and also reduced memory usage dramatically. For all three AI workflows we executed, we consider the time the workstations needed to complete the tasks to be acceptable, and believe that these workstations can be appropriate, cost-effective choices for these kinds of activities.
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As data proliferates and the sizes of databases grow, the potential to unlock valuable insights from them becomes increasingly dependent on fast architectures that can handle compute-intensive machine learning workloads such as k-means clustering and Bayesian inference. By upgrading to the latest servers, organizations can scale their processing power to meet the growing demands of their databases.
Larger databases and more powerful algorithms have the potential to give organizations a competitive edge. Faster servers can improve the accuracy of data-driven decisions by allowing organizations to use more complex algorithms and update ML models more frequently. To consider just two examples, improved performance could allow an e-commerce company to make better recommendations to customers and a financial services company to assess risks more accurately.
When we compared the machine learning performance of a 16G Dell PowerEdge R7625 server powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 64-core processors with Broadcom NICs and PERC 11 storage controllers to a previous-generation PowerEdge server, we found performance enhancements in terms of throughput and speed, whether running k-means clustering or Bayesian workloads. These findings suggest that organizations that rely on machine learning algorithms might gain performance advantages by upgrading to the latest generation of these Dell servers.
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Many growing businesses employ a combination of HDDs and SSDs in their datacenters to provide storage for users. Software-defined storage additions, such as Windows Storage Spaces, can help improve workload performance by using tiering and caching technologies with enabling hardware. When combined with this software, the new Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd can provide storage support for the increasing workload performance of your business. We found that the PowerEdge R730xd provided support for 16.5 times more file server IOPS, and up to 94.7 lower latency, than the PowerEdge R720xd. If your business needs storage and performance to support its growth, consider the new Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
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Data analytics can play a critical role in understanding your organization. With timely data analysis, decision‑makers can respond to trends or activity quickly and with the support of data-driven insight. New Dell PowerEdge R760 servers, either in addition to or in place of aging servers, can boost data warehouse workload performance to deliver insights sooner. In our testing, a latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed 20 data analytics workloads in up to 41 percent less time than older Dell PowerEdge R750 and PowerEdge R740xd servers.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to Samsung NVMe PC...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with a caching solution. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs. The upgraded configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs delivered up to 13.9 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle VM Server 3.2.8 with Oracle Database 12c VMs achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 could perform five times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server; the costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge would be 43 percent less than the five servers it could replace. The three-year software licensing costs of the Dell PowerEdge R920 server would be 22 percent lower than the licensing costs for the five-server solution. These dramatic savings—which come out to $212,091 for our single test environment — could grow to millions of dollars in a larger consolidation effort.
As the needs of your business grow, so must the power of your server infrastructure. Rather than purchasing replacement servers with base configurations, consider upgrading key components to ensure you get the performance you need.
We found that upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R720 with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, Intel SSD DC S3700 series drive, and Intel Ethernet CNA X520 series adapters supported 4.5 times as many VMs as the previous-generation Dell PowerEdge R710 solution.
When you purchase a server, wisely selecting these components offered by Dell and Intel can allow your business to hit the sweet spot of supporting all your users without breaking the bank. Incremental upgrades also leave room to grow and help your infrastructure handle growth for years to come.
Finally, these select upgrades could translate to savings for your business—fewer servers you need to purchase now to meet performance demands, and a longer lifespan for these servers as your business continues to grow.
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI perf...Principled Technologies
Additionally, PowerEdge R6515 servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors could lower licensing costs and also empower your business to explore Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu
Scalability: Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 system and Lenovo ThinkServer SA120 sto...Principled Technologies
Enterprises and SMBs need servers that can provide reliable performance with the ability to scale out to match growth. The Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 and the ThinkServer SA120 DAS array can run transactional applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server while providing scalable storage to support these critical workloads. We found that in the HDD configuration, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 DAS device provided support for 3,800 Exchange users. When we added just two Intel 400GB SSDs as a CacheCade volume, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 not only supported 5,300 users—a 39.5 percent increase—but did so while improving response time 33.9 percent.
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Investing in GenAI: Cost‑benefit analysis of Dell on‑premises deployments vs....Principled Technologies
Conclusion
Diving into the world of GenAI has the potential to yield a great many benefits for your organization, but it first requires consideration for how best to implement those GenAI workloads. Whether your AI goals are to create a chatbot for online visitors, generate marketing materials, aid troubleshooting, or something else, implementing an AI solution requires careful planning and decision-making. A major decision is whether to host GenAI in the cloud or keep your data on premises. Traditional on-premises solutions can provide superior security and control, a substantial concern when dealing with large amounts of potentially sensitive data. But will supporting a GenAI solution on site be a drain on an organization’s IT budget?
In our research, we found that the value proposition is just the opposite: Hosting GenAI workloads on premises, either in a traditional Dell solution or using a managed Dell APEX pay-per-use solution, could significantly lower your GenAI costs over 3 years compared to hosting these workloads in the cloud. In fact, we found that a comparable AWS SageMaker solution would cost up to 3.8 times as much and an Azure ML solution would cost up to 3.6 times as much as GenAI on a Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. These results show that organizations looking to implement GenAI and reap the business benefits to come can find many advantages in an on-premises Dell solution, whether they opt to purchase and manage it themselves or choose a subscription-based Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. Choosing an on-premises Dell solution could save your organization significantly over hosting GenAI in the cloud, while giving you control over the security and privacy of your data as well as any updates and changes to the environment, and while ensuring your environment is managed consistently.
Workstations powered by Intel can play a vital role in CPU-intensive AI devel...Principled Technologies
In three AI development workflows, Intel processor-powered workstations delivered strong performance, without using their GPUs, making them a good choice for this part of the AI process
Conclusion
We executed three AI development workflows on tower workstations and mobile workstations from three vendors, with each workflow utilizing only the Intel CPU cores, and found that these platforms were suitable for carrying out various AI tasks. For two of the workflows, we learned that completing the tasks on the tower workstations took roughly half as much time as on the mobile workstations. This supports the idea that the tower workstations would be appropriate for a development environment for more complex models with a greater volume of data and that the mobile workstations would be well-suited for data scientists fine-tuning simpler models. In the third workflow, we explored tower workstation performance with different precision levels and learned that using 16-bit floating point precision allowed the workstations to execute the workflow in less time and also reduced memory usage dramatically. For all three AI workflows we executed, we consider the time the workstations needed to complete the tasks to be acceptable, and believe that these workstations can be appropriate, cost-effective choices for these kinds of activities.
Enable security features with no impact to OLTP performance with Dell PowerEd...Principled Technologies
Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State
Conclusion
You’ve likely already implemented many security measures for your servers, which may include physical security for the data center, hardware-level security, and software-level security. With the cost of data breaches high and still growing, however, wise IT teams will consider what additional security measures they may be able to implement.
AMD SME and SEV-ES are technologies that are already available within your AMD processor-powered 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers—and in our testing, we saw that they can offer extra layers of security without affecting performance. We compared the online transaction processing performance of a Dell PowerEdge R7625 server, powered by AMD EPYC 9274F processors, with and without these two security features enabled. We found that enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State did not impact performance at all.
If your team is assessing areas where you might be able to enhance security—without paying a large performance cost—consider enabling AME SME and AMD SEV-ES in your Dell PowerEdge servers.
Improving energy efficiency in the data center: Endure higher temperatures wi...Principled Technologies
In high-temperature test scenarios, a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server continued running an intensive workload without component warnings or failures, while a Supermicro SYS‑621C-TN12R server failed
Conclusion: Remain resilient in high temperatures with the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 to help increase efficiency
Increasing your data center’s temperature can help your organization make strides in energy efficiency and cooling cost savings. With servers that can hold up to these higher everyday temperatures—as well as high temperatures due to unforeseen circumstances—your business can continue to deliver the performance your apps and clients require.
When we ran an intensive floating-point workload on a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 and a Supermicro SYS-621CTN12R in three scenario types simulating typical operations at 25°C, a fan failure, and an HVAC malfunction, the Dell server experienced no component warnings or failures. In contrast, the Supermicro server experienced warnings in all three scenario types and experienced component failures in the latter two tests, rendering the system unusable. When we inspected and analyzed each system, we found that the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server’s motherboard layout, fans, and chassis offered cooling design advantages.
For businesses aiming to meet sustainability goals by running hotter data centers, as well as those concerned with server cooling design, the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 is a strong contender to take on higher temperatures during day-to-day operations and unexpected malfunctions.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a Kubernetes container-based generative AI workload effectively
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a generative AI workload effectively
Conclusion
The appeal of incorporating GenAI into your organization’s operations is likely great. Getting started with an efficient solution for your next LLM workload or application can seem daunting because of the changing hardware and software landscape, but Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors could provide the solution you need. We started with a Dell Validated Design as a reference, and then went on to modify the deployment as necessary for our Llama 2 workload. The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift solution worked well for our LLM, and by using this deployment guide in conjunction with numerous Dell documents and some flexibility, you could be well on your way to innovating your next GenAI breakthrough.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
For organizations running clusters of moderately configured, older Dell PowerEdge servers with a previous version of VCF, upgrading to better-configured modern servers can provide a significant performance boost and more.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Realize 2.1X the performance with 20% less power with AMD EPYC processor-back...Principled Technologies
Three AMD EPYC processor-based two-processor solutions outshined comparable Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based solutions by handling more Redis workload transactions and requests while consuming less power
Conclusion
Performance and energy efficiency are significant factors in processor selection for servers running data-intensive workloads, such as Redis. We compared the Redis performance and energy consumption of a server cluster in three AMD EPYC two-processor configurations against that of a server cluster in two Intel Xeon Scalable two-processor configurations. In each of our three test scenarios, the server cluster backed by AMD EPYC processors outperformed the server cluster backed by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. In addition, one of the AMD EPYC processor-based clusters consumed 20 percent less power than its Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based counterpart. Combining these measurements gave us power efficiency metrics that demonstrate how valuable AMD EPYC processor-based servers could be—you could see better performance per watt with these AMD EPYC processor-based server clusters and potentially get more from your Redis or other data intensive applications and workloads while reducing data center power costs.
Improve performance and gain room to grow by easily migrating to a modern Ope...Principled Technologies
We deployed this modern environment, then migrated database VMs from legacy servers and saw performance improvements that support consolidation
Conclusion
If your organization’s transactional databases are running on gear that is several years old, you have much to gain by upgrading to modern servers with new processors and networking components and an OpenShift environment. In our testing, a modern OpenShift environment with a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs outperformed a legacy environment with MySQL VMs running on a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers with 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors and 25Gb Broadcom NICs. We also easily migrated a VM from the legacy environment to the modern environment, with only a few steps required to set up and less than ten minutes of hands-on time. The performance advantage of the modern servers would allow a company to reduce the number of servers necessary to perform a given amount of database work, thus lowering operational expenditures such as power and cooling and IT staff time for maintenance. The high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs in this solution also give companies better network performance and networking capacity to grow as they embrace emerging technologies such as AI that put great demands on networks.
Boost PC performance: How more available memory can improve productivityPrincipled Technologies
With more memory available, system performance of three Dell devices increased, which can translate to a better user experience
Conclusion
When your system has plenty of RAM to meet your needs, you can efficiently access the applications and data you need to finish projects and to-do lists without sacrificing time and focus. Our test results show that with more memory available, three Dell PCs delivered better performance and took less time to complete the Procyon Office Productivity benchmark. These advantages translate to users being able to complete workflows more quickly and multitask more easily. Whether you need the mobility of the Latitude 5440, the creative capabilities of the Precision 3470, or the high performance of the OptiPlex Tower Plus 7010, configuring your system with more RAM can help keep processes running smoothly, enabling you to do more without compromising performance.
Deploy with confidence: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdg...Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies deployment guide
Conclusion
Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdge servers brings together critical virtualization capabilities and high-performing hardware infrastructure. Relying on our hands-on experience, this deployment guide offers a comprehensive roadmap that can guide your organization through the seamless integration of advanced VMware cloud solutions with the performance and reliability of Dell PowerEdge servers. In addition to the deployment efficiency, the Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge solution delivered strong performance while running a MySQL database workload. By leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge servers, you could help your organization embrace cloud computing with confidence, potentially unlocking a new level of agility, scalability, and efficiency in your data center operations.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
Conclusion
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. We found that a Dell PowerEdge R760 server cluster running VCF 5.1 processed over 78 percent more TPM and 79 percent more NOPM than a Dell PowerEdge R750 server cluster running VCF 4.5. It’s also worth noting that the PowerEdge R750 cluster bottlenecked on vSAN storage, with max write latency at 8.9ms. For reference, the PowerEdge R760 cluster clocked in at 3.8ms max write latency. This higher latency is due in part to the single disk group per host on the moderately configured PowerEdge R750 cluster, while the better-configured PowerEdge R760 cluster supported four disk groups per host. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Based on our research using publicly available materials, it appears that Dell supports nine of the ten PC security features we investigated, HP supports six of them, and Lenovo supports three features.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS ...Principled Technologies
In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from Vendor A, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS can deliver faster storage performance.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWSPrincipled Technologies
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger and more consistent storage performance for better business agility than a Vendor A solution
Conclusion
Enterprises desiring the flexibility and convenience of the cloud for their block storage workloads can find fast-performing solutions with the enterprise storage features they’re used to in on-premises infrastructure by selecting Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.
Our hands-on tests showed that compared to the Vendor A solution, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger, more consistent storage performance in both NVMe-supported and EBS-backed configurations. Using NVMe-supported configurations, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS achieved 4.7x the random read IOPS and 5.1x the throughput on sequential read operations per node vs. Vendor A. In our EBS-backed comparison, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered 2.2x the throughput per node on sequential read operations vs. Vendor A.
Plus, the ability to scale beyond three nodes—up to 512 storage nodes with capacity of up to 8 PBs—enables Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS to help ensure performance and capacity as your team plans for the future.
Get in and stay in the productivity zone with the HP Z2 G9 Tower WorkstationPrincipled Technologies
We compared CPU performance and noise output of an HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation in High Performance Mode to Dell Precision 3660 and 5860 tower workstations in optimized performance modes
Conclusion
HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation users can change the BIOS settings to dial in the performance mode that best suits their needs: High Performance Mode, Performance Mode, or Quiet Mode. In good
news for both creative and technical professionals, we found that an Intel Core i9-13900 processor-powered HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation set to High Performance mode received higher CPU-based benchmark scores than both a similarly configured Dell Precision 3660 and a Dell Precision 5860 equipped with an Intel Xeon w5-2455x processor. Plus, the HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation was quieter while running CPU-intensive Cinebench 2024 and SPECapc for Solidworks 2022 workloads than both Dell Precision tower workstations. This means HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation users who prize performance over everything else can do so without sacrificing a quiet workspace.
Open up new possibilities with higher transactional database performance from...Principled Technologies
In our PostgreSQL tests, R7i instances boosted performance over R6i instances with previous-gen processors
If you use the open-source PostgreSQL database to run your critical business operations, you have many cloud options from which to choose. While many of these instances can do the job, some can deliver stronger performance, which can mean getting a greater return on your cloud investment.
We conducted hands-on testing with the HammerDB TPROC-C benchmark to see how the PostgreSQL performance of Amazon EC2 R7i instances, enabled by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, stacked up to that of R6i instances with previous-generation processors. We learned that small, medium-sized, and large R7i instances with the newer processors delivered better OLTP performance, with improvements as high as 13.8 percent. By choosing the R7i instances, your organization has the potential to support more users, deliver a better experience to those users, and even lower your cloud operating expenditures by requiring fewer instances to get the job done.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
Unlock more mixed storage performance on Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID controllers - Interactive PDF
1. Unlock more mixed storage performance on
Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with Broadcom
PCIe Gen4 RAID controllers
Compared to Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers with
Broadcom PCIe Gen3 RAID controllers
To explore the advantages of the 15G Dell PowerEdge R750 server in a mixed-storage
environment, we compared its input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput
to those from a 14G Dell PowerEdge R740xd server.
In our Flexible input/output (FIO) benchmark test of both servers with 16 SAS and 8
NVMe™
drives, the Dell PowerEdge™
R750 server with a Broadcom PCIe®
Gen4 RAID
controller handled over 7.5 million more IOPS in our 4KB random read workload
and maintained over twice the gibibytes per second (GiB/s) in our 1MB sequential
read workload.
Maintain more
concurrent throughput
Up to 2.0x the GiB/s on 1MB
sequential read workloads*
Up to 1.3x the GiB/s on 1MB
sequential write workloads*
Handle more
storage requests
Up to 2.3x the raw IOPS on 4KB
random read workloads*
Up to 1.2x the raw IOPS on 4KB
random write workloads*
*
vs a PowerEdge R740xd server with a Broadcom PCIe Gen3 RAID controller
June 2022
Introduction Performance Throughput Learn more
A Principled Technologies interactive PDF: Hands-on testing. Real-world results.
2. How we tested
We compared the server and mixed SAS/NVMe
drive storage performance of a Dell PowerEdge
R750 server with a Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID
controller (Dell PERC H755) to that of a Dell
PowerEdge R740xd server with a Broadcom PCIe
Gen3 RAID controller (Dell PERC H740P).
In all of our FIO benchmark tests, we used the
maximum number of cores per processor: 56
cores for the Dell PowerEdge R750 and 48 for the
PowerEdge R740xd. Our final mixed-drive test
included eight NVMe drives—filling all NVMe slots
in the backpanes of the servers under test.
Home
How we tested
Workload types
Metrics
Introduction
Dell PowerEdge R750 server
The Dell PowerEdge R750 is a full-featured,
general purpose 2U rack server powered by
3rd Gen Intel®
Xeon®
Scalable processors.
According to Dell, this rack server is purpose-
built to optimize application performance and
acceleration with PCIe Gen 4.0 compatibility,
eight channels of memory per CPU, and up to
24 NVMe drives. It also includes “improved
air-cooling features and optional Direct Liquid
Cooling to support increasing power and
thermal requirements.”1
Broadcom PCIe Gen4 technology in
Dell PowerEdge servers
The Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID controller
(Dell PERC H755) on the motherboard of the
PowerEdge R750 server delivers twice the
bandwidth (from 8GT/s to 16GT/s) of PCIe Gen3
RAID controllers.2
Go to the PT website to
see the testing details
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How we tested
Workload types
How we tested
Introduction
What is the difference between random and sequential workloads?
Our FIO benchmark testing used random and sequential workloads, which use different patterns for
accessing and storing data. Random workloads are those where data is pulled from multiple drives.
Sequential workloads involve a continuous flow of data from one drive. Running both types of workloads
can provide insight into how the server solution handles the access, retrieval, and saving of data.
Random
A user who browses
multiple web pages in an
online store before making a
purchase represents a read-
heavy random workload
because the application
may have to pull data from
multiple drives.
Sequential
Streaming video
necessitates that a server
read that data sequentially
in a single continuous
stream. The same rule
applies to storing data.
Metrics
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How we tested
How we tested
Introduction
Metrics
Workload types
Performance metrics
To measure each dual-processor solution’s storage
performance in four mixed-drive configurations,
we captured FIO benchmark performance
metrics, which offer insight into server and
storage performance.
GiB/s
The amount of information (in GiB) a solution
can process per second (throughput)
indicates how well it can process a high
volume of data.
IOPS
The number of IOPS a solution can handle
indicates the degree to which it can process
a high volume of storage requests at once.
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5. Handle more storage requests
Based on the IOPS output we saw in random read workload testing,
upgrading from 14G Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers to 15G Dell
PowerEdge R750 servers could help companies grow their user base or
achieve performance gains for I/O-intensive applications.
In our random write workload-based FIO benchmark testing,
we found that the more SAS drives we used in the mixed SAS
and NVMe configuration, the bigger the storage performance
differences were between the PowerEdge R750 and the
PowerEdge R740xd.
In addition to these, we also tested with three more mixed SAS/NVMe drive configurations. See the results
More storage requests
Upgrade capabilities
Performance
Dell PowerEdge R750
Dell PowerEdge R740xd
4KB random read FIO results
with 16 SAS and 8 NVMe drives
IOPS | Higher is better
13.2 million
5.5 million
Up to
2.3x the
raw IOPS
Dell PowerEdge R750
Dell PowerEdge R740xd
9.0 million
7.0 million
4KB random write FIO results
with 16 SAS and 8 NVMe drives
IOPS | Higher is better
Up to
1.2x the
raw IOPS
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6. Upgrading your capabilities
Dell Technologies made some big changes with the 15G refresh of its 2U workhorse. While we only
compared server and mixed SAS and NVMe drive storage performance, the redesigned PowerEdge
R750 chassis with its multi-vector cooling is a significant upgrade from its predecessor.
According to Dell, the PowerEdge R750 is purpose-built to optimize application performance and
acceleration with PCIe Gen 4.0 compatibility, eight channels of memory per CPU, and up to 24
NVMe™
drives. It also includes “improved air-cooling features and optional Direct Liquid Cooling to
support increasing power and thermal requirements.”3
Random workload data
Putting it into context
More storage requests
Performance
Upgrade capabilities
The PowerEdge R750 server takes
advantage of PCIe Gen4, which
doubles the
bandwidth available
on the PowerEdge R740xd server.4
Compare server capabilities
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Impact of throughput
More volume
Throughput
Maintain more concurrent throughput
Based on the higher volume of outgoing large blocks of data (1 MB)
we saw in the sequential read workload testing, upgrading to the 15G
Dell PowerEdge R750 server could benefit applications that stream
video, allow end users to import large amounts of data in less time,
and enable staff to access large files more quickly.
In this FIO benchmark comparison, the higher volume of incoming
large blocks of data processed by the Dell PowerEdge R750 server
could speed applications that render video, allow end users to
export large amounts of data in less time, and enable staff to copy
information from one file to another more quickly.
Dell PowerEdge R750
Dell PowerEdge R740xd
1MB sequential read FIO results
with 16 SAS and 8 NVMe drives
Throughput | Higher is better
62.4 GiB/s
30.1 GiB/s
Up to
2.0x the
GiB/s
Dell PowerEdge R750
Dell PowerEdge R740xd
1MB sequential write FIO results
with 16 SAS and 8 NVMe drives
Throughput | Higher is better
42.5 GiB/s
31.6 GiB/s
Up to
1.3x the
GiB/s
In addition to these, we also tested with three more mixed SAS/NVMe drive configurations. See the results
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8. The importance of concurrent throughput
Upgrading to server solutions with high throughput and IOPS
could have a direct impact on a company’s profit margin.
According to Data Center Knowledge, “[t]hroughput is the
result of IOPS and the block size for each I/O being sent or
received. Since a 256KB block has 64 times the amount of data
as a 4K block, size impacts throughput. In addition, the size
and quantity of blocks impacts bandwidth on the fabric and
the amount of processing required on the servers, network and
storage environments.”5
All of these items can have a big impact on
application performance.
vs EaseUS Todo PC Trans Pro
Putting it into context
More volume
Impact of throughput
Throughput
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9. Examples
Conclusion
Server comparison
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Features PowerEdge R7506
PowerEdge R740xd7
Processor
Up to two 3rd
Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with up
to 40 cores per processor
Up to two 2nd
Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with up to
28 cores per processor
Memory
• 32 DDR4 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM (2TB max) / LRDIMM
(8TB max), speeds up to 3200 MT/s
• Up to 16 Intel Persistent Memory 200 series (BPS)
slots, (8TB max)
• Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
• 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM / LRDIMM, speeds up to
2666MT/s, 3TB max
• Up to 12 NVDIMM, (192GB max)
• Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Storage controllers
Internal controllers:
• PERC H745
• HBA355I
• PERC S150 (SWRAID)
• PERC H345, H755, H755N (HWRAID)
• BOSS-S2 (HWRAID) 2 x M.2 SSDs 240 GB or 480 GB
• BOSS-S1 (HWRAID) 2 x M.2 SSDs 240 GB or 480 GB
External controllers:
• PERC H840 (RAID)
• HBA355e (non-RAID)
Internal controllers:
• PERC H730P, H740P
• PERC S140 (SWRAID)
• BOSS (HWRAID) 2 x M.2 SSDs 120 GB or 240 GB
• HBA330 (non-RAID 12Gbps SAS HBA)
External controllers:
• PERC H840 (RAID)
• 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID)
Storage
Front bays:
• Up to 12 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (192TB max)
• Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe drives (122.88TB max)
• Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (245.76TB max)
Mid bay:
• Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (368.84TB max)
Rear bays:
• Up to 2 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (30.72TB max)
• Up to 4 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (61.44TB max)
Front bays:
• Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (153TB max) or up
to 12 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (144TB max)
Mid bay:
• Up to 4 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (25TB max) or up to 4
x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (48TB max)
Rear bays:
• Up to 4 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (25TB max) or up to 2
x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (24TB max)
PCIe
8 x PCIe Gen4 slots (up to 6 x 16) with support for SNAP
I/O modules
8 x PCIe Gen3 slots (up to 6 x 16)
Comparing server
capabilities
Some of the most notable
15G performance and
storage-related features
include upgraded RAID,
PowerEdge RAID controller
(PERC), boot-optimized
storage subsystem (BOSS),
and host bus adapter (HBA)
storage controllers.
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10. Real world benefits
In today’s digital era, big data—which includes unstructured media, imaging, audio, sensor,
and text data—has dramatically increased the need for efficient storage and computing
capabilities. Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID controllers have
the potential to help companies deal with evolving demands.
Server comparison
Conclusion
Examples
Learn more
No matter how enticing NVMe performance
gains are, investing in all NVMe drives can be
an expensive proposition—both economically
and operationally. So, it comes as no surprise
that “IDC estimates that SAS is found in over 70
percent of enterprise storage drives and expects
it to reach more than 85 percent of enterprise
storage capacity by 2022.”8
Dell PowerEdge
R750 servers include Broadcom PCIe Gen4 RAID
controllers, which not only deliver twice the
bandwidth (throughput) of previous generation
servers with Gen3 technology, but also support
SAS, NVMe, and mixed-drive environments.9
With worldwide retail commerce sales estimated
“to grow by 50 percent over the next four years,
reaching about 7.4 trillion dollars by 2025,”10
the
higher IOPS processing capabilities we found in
the Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom
PCIe Gen4 RAID controller can enable retail data
centers to handle more orders at once. This could,
in turn, reduce the number of discarded shopping
carts and increase the number of successful sales.
The insurance market’s need to constantly
improve the customer experience is driving
innovation and changing the way companies do
business. PwC reports that 63 percent of insurance
company CEOs think the Internet of Things (IoT)
is important to their business strategy.11
The PCIe
Gen4 capabilities (doubled bandwidth per lane)
in the Dell PowerEdge R750 server can enable
companies to handle more or heavier traffic from
connected devices already in place.
$7.4
TRILLION
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11. Conclusion
Upgrading to or investing in the latest generation of servers could help you
better deal with evolving demands, grow your business, and keep customers
happy. We found that a 15G Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom
PCIe Gen4 RAID controller processed significantly more storage requests
and sustained more concurrent throughput in four mixed SAS and NVMe
drive configurations than a 14G Dell PowerEdge R740xd server with a
Broadcom PCIe Gen3 RAID controller.
1 Dell, “Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Spec
Sheet,” accessed April 21, 2022,
https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/
Product_Docs/en/poweredge-R750-
spec-sheet.pdf.
2 MiniTool Partition Wizard, “PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0:
What’s the Difference and Which is Better
[Clone Disk]”, accessed April 21, 2022,
https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/
pcie-3-vs-4.html.
3 Dell, “Dell EMC PowerEdge
R750 Spec Sheet.”
4 MiniTool Partition Wizard, “PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0:
What’s the Difference and Which is Better
[Clone Disk]”, accessed April 21, 2022,
https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/
pcie-3-vs-4.html.
5 Data Center Knowledge, “The Impact of
Block Sizes in a Data Center,” accessed
April 21, 2022, https://www.datacenter-
knowledge.com/archives/2016/05/04/
impact-block-sizes-data-center.
6 Dell, “Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Spec
Sheet,” accessed April 21, 2022, https://i.
dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/
en/poweredge-R750-spec-sheet.pdf.
7 Dell, “Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd Spec
Sheet,” accessed April 21, 2022, https://i.
dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Con-
tent_data-Sheets_Documents/en/power-
edge-r740xd-spec-sheet.pdf.
8 Data Center Dynamics, “SAS or NVMe? That
is the question,” accessed April 21, 2022,
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/
opinions/sas-or-nvme-that-is-the-question/.
9 MiniTool Partition Wizard, “PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0:
What’s the Difference and Which is Better
[Clone Disk]”, accessed April 21, 2022,
https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/
pcie-3-vs-4.html.
10 Statista, “Retail e-commerce sales
worldwide from 2014 to 2025,” accessed
April 28, 2022, https://www.statista.com/
statistics/379046/worldwide-retail-e-
commerce-sales/.
11 Tipalti, “Chart-Topping FinTech Stats for
2022,” accessed April 28, 2022, https://
tipalti.com/fintech-stats-for-2022/.
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