Watch your transactional database performance climb with Intel Optane DC pers...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Optane DC persistent memory handled more transactions per minute than configurations with NAND flash NVMe drives or SATA SSDs
In our tests, we found that the HP Z8 tower with Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors completed three sample media and entertainment tasks in up to 44 percent less time than the Apple Mac Pro with Intel Xeon W-3275M processor, while adding only 11 percent to the purchase price.
Compute intensive performance efficiency comparison: HP Moonshot with AMD APU...Principled Technologies
AMD’s accelerated processing units can be an enormous boon to those who perform compute intensive processing workloads, such as the 3D rendering workload we tested. In the Principled Technologies labs, an AMD-based HP Moonshot 1500 chassis with the ProLiant M700 server cartridge outperformed an Intel Xeon processor E5-2660 V2-based server —delivering 12.6 times the rendering performance of a single Intel server. It achieved this performance advantage while utilizing 10 percent less power than the more traditional server solution, and used just 4.3U of rack space instead of the 12U that 12 Intel servers would have used.
Keep remote desktop power users productive with Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 serve...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 server powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors can support 230 VDI power users while maintaining acceptable desktop response times of less than 1 second for CPU-centric tasks and less than 6 seconds for storage-centric tasks. This allows companies to keep their remote workforce productive with fewer servers. Testing showed the PowerEdge R840 delivered speedy access to applications for hundreds of users simultaneously working and collaborating.
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.
Consolidating Web servers with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure and PowerEdge...Principled Technologies
Consolidating Web servers to a new environment can save you a great deal on operating costs such as power and cooling, and the shared nature of converged infrastructure solutions can maximize these savings. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure with Intel Atom processor C2750-powered FM120 nodes provided better consolidation ratios and power efficiency than both the HP Moonshot 1500 shared infrastructure solution and the current-generation HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 rack server. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 could consolidate 12 legacy Web servers and deliver up to 6.7 times the power efficiency that legacy servers would use. It also delivered up to 110.1 percent more performance/watt compared to the current-generation Web server solutions we tested from HP.
As these results show, the Dell PowerEdge FX2 with FM120x4 microserver blocks could provide your organization with dramatic power savings through consolidation, all while providing the Web server performance you require.
Watch your transactional database performance climb with Intel Optane DC pers...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Optane DC persistent memory handled more transactions per minute than configurations with NAND flash NVMe drives or SATA SSDs
In our tests, we found that the HP Z8 tower with Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors completed three sample media and entertainment tasks in up to 44 percent less time than the Apple Mac Pro with Intel Xeon W-3275M processor, while adding only 11 percent to the purchase price.
Compute intensive performance efficiency comparison: HP Moonshot with AMD APU...Principled Technologies
AMD’s accelerated processing units can be an enormous boon to those who perform compute intensive processing workloads, such as the 3D rendering workload we tested. In the Principled Technologies labs, an AMD-based HP Moonshot 1500 chassis with the ProLiant M700 server cartridge outperformed an Intel Xeon processor E5-2660 V2-based server —delivering 12.6 times the rendering performance of a single Intel server. It achieved this performance advantage while utilizing 10 percent less power than the more traditional server solution, and used just 4.3U of rack space instead of the 12U that 12 Intel servers would have used.
Keep remote desktop power users productive with Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 serve...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 server powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors can support 230 VDI power users while maintaining acceptable desktop response times of less than 1 second for CPU-centric tasks and less than 6 seconds for storage-centric tasks. This allows companies to keep their remote workforce productive with fewer servers. Testing showed the PowerEdge R840 delivered speedy access to applications for hundreds of users simultaneously working and collaborating.
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.
Consolidating Web servers with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure and PowerEdge...Principled Technologies
Consolidating Web servers to a new environment can save you a great deal on operating costs such as power and cooling, and the shared nature of converged infrastructure solutions can maximize these savings. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure with Intel Atom processor C2750-powered FM120 nodes provided better consolidation ratios and power efficiency than both the HP Moonshot 1500 shared infrastructure solution and the current-generation HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 rack server. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 could consolidate 12 legacy Web servers and deliver up to 6.7 times the power efficiency that legacy servers would use. It also delivered up to 110.1 percent more performance/watt compared to the current-generation Web server solutions we tested from HP.
As these results show, the Dell PowerEdge FX2 with FM120x4 microserver blocks could provide your organization with dramatic power savings through consolidation, all while providing the Web server performance you require.
Spend less time, effort, and money by choosing a Dell EMC server with pre-ins...Principled Technologies
Deploying a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 with pre-installed Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard took less time and fewer steps than deploying the same server without it
Your datacenter is capable of doing great things—if you let it. Upgrades from Intel for compute, storage, and networking components can help your business support new services and expand your customer base. In our hands-on testing, we found that new Intel processors, high-bandwidth network components, and SATA or PCIe SSDs working together can boost your datacenter’s capabilities, which could translate to better business operations for your organization.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
Keep your data safe by moving from unsupported SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server ...Principled Technologies
Many small and medium businesses delay updating their server operating systems and applications. When software reaches end-of-support and the vendor ceases to release security updates and patches, businesses that fail to migrate risk incurring downtime and expense. They may encounter technical problems, and their vital data becomes especially vulnerable to cyber attackers, who often target outdated software.
3 key wins: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with OpenManage Enterprise over Cisco UCS a...Principled Technologies
In head-to-head tests, the modular Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ MX7000 with
OpenManage™ Enterprise reduced admin time and effort on repetitive tasks when compared to Cisco UCS® 5108 with Cisco UCS Manager and HPE Synergy with OneView.
Run compute-intensive Apache Hadoop big data workloads faster with Dell EMC P...Principled Technologies
Moving compute-intensive, Hadoop big data workloads to current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors could allow your organization to better meet the data analysis challenges of today. Faster analysis of large data sets means getting insight into your organization, products, and services sooner, which could help your organization grow and beat its competition.
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
Get stronger SQL Server performance for less with Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 cl...Principled Technologies
When it comes to hardware, getting greater performance often requires spending more. In our virtualized SQL Server 2019 testing of two current-generation servers in Hyper-V clusters, however, the less expensive option delivered stronger performance on our OLTP workload.
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
Maximizing Oracle Database performance with Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SS...Principled Technologies
If your organization runs critical, high-demand databases in environments such as Oracle Database, strong performance is not an option: it’s a must-have. Additionally, getting that necessary strong performance out of a single server can be essential for running a space and cost-efficient datacenter. In the Principled Technologies labs, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R930 offered strong performance for such transactional databases when configured with SATA SSDs. When we upgraded the servers to Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs, performance doubled, increasing by 2.17 times, or 117 percent. If your datacenter needs a new powerhouse server, purchasing your Dell PowerEdge R930 with Intel NVMe SSDs for a cost increase of only 18 percent can double the performance you get from each server. This increases what your infrastructure can do within the same amount of space and lets you ultimately save money that would otherwise be spent purchasing additional servers and software.
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
Back up deduplicated data in less time with the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appli...Principled Technologies
Backing up data is a key component in data protection. However, long backup windows can cause headaches for IT and users while slowing down the network. We found that using source-side deduplication and Rapid CIFS technology to back up data to the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance was faster—with the average rate of data backup at 8.99 TB per hour. The backup to the DR6000 completed in two-thirds the time that the backup to the industry-leading deduplication appliance completed. Backing up to the DR6000 consumed less than one-sixth the bandwidth needed to back up to the industry-leading deduplication appliance. In addition, the DR6000 needed less rack space and cost a third less than the competition. The solution to lengthy backup windows is clear: Save time and network bandwidth with source-side deduplication built into the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Prepare images for machine learning faster with servers powered by AMD EPYC 7...Principled Technologies
A server cluster with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors achieved higher throughput and took less time to prepare images for classification than a server cluster with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain g...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a study that tested online transactional processing (OLTP) performance on two server solutions: a Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server with VMware vSphere 7.0, and a previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server with vSphere 6.7. The study found that the R940 solution processed over 30% more operations per minute than the R930 solution. Upgrading to the R940 platform provides benefits like more processor cores, memory, and PCIe capacity. VMware vSphere 7.0 features like vLCM could help scale Dell EMC environments, and integrating with OpenManage for vCenter allows faster updating, upgrading, and compatibility checking.
Elevate your e-commerce business by upgrading to the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740x...Principled Technologies
Upgrading from legacy Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with a SAN storage array to a VMware vSAN cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors provided a dramatic performance boost. The new cluster handled 11.4 times as many orders per minute as the legacy environment and 1.3 times as many orders per minute as a previous generation solution with 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The document recommends upgrading hardware to improve efficiency, support new technologies, and help businesses grow by handling more customers.
Spend less time, effort, and money by choosing a Dell EMC server with pre-ins...Principled Technologies
Deploying a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 with pre-installed Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard took less time and fewer steps than deploying the same server without it
Your datacenter is capable of doing great things—if you let it. Upgrades from Intel for compute, storage, and networking components can help your business support new services and expand your customer base. In our hands-on testing, we found that new Intel processors, high-bandwidth network components, and SATA or PCIe SSDs working together can boost your datacenter’s capabilities, which could translate to better business operations for your organization.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
Keep your data safe by moving from unsupported SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server ...Principled Technologies
Many small and medium businesses delay updating their server operating systems and applications. When software reaches end-of-support and the vendor ceases to release security updates and patches, businesses that fail to migrate risk incurring downtime and expense. They may encounter technical problems, and their vital data becomes especially vulnerable to cyber attackers, who often target outdated software.
3 key wins: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with OpenManage Enterprise over Cisco UCS a...Principled Technologies
In head-to-head tests, the modular Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ MX7000 with
OpenManage™ Enterprise reduced admin time and effort on repetitive tasks when compared to Cisco UCS® 5108 with Cisco UCS Manager and HPE Synergy with OneView.
Run compute-intensive Apache Hadoop big data workloads faster with Dell EMC P...Principled Technologies
Moving compute-intensive, Hadoop big data workloads to current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors could allow your organization to better meet the data analysis challenges of today. Faster analysis of large data sets means getting insight into your organization, products, and services sooner, which could help your organization grow and beat its competition.
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
Get stronger SQL Server performance for less with Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 cl...Principled Technologies
When it comes to hardware, getting greater performance often requires spending more. In our virtualized SQL Server 2019 testing of two current-generation servers in Hyper-V clusters, however, the less expensive option delivered stronger performance on our OLTP workload.
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
Maximizing Oracle Database performance with Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SS...Principled Technologies
If your organization runs critical, high-demand databases in environments such as Oracle Database, strong performance is not an option: it’s a must-have. Additionally, getting that necessary strong performance out of a single server can be essential for running a space and cost-efficient datacenter. In the Principled Technologies labs, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R930 offered strong performance for such transactional databases when configured with SATA SSDs. When we upgraded the servers to Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs, performance doubled, increasing by 2.17 times, or 117 percent. If your datacenter needs a new powerhouse server, purchasing your Dell PowerEdge R930 with Intel NVMe SSDs for a cost increase of only 18 percent can double the performance you get from each server. This increases what your infrastructure can do within the same amount of space and lets you ultimately save money that would otherwise be spent purchasing additional servers and software.
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
Back up deduplicated data in less time with the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appli...Principled Technologies
Backing up data is a key component in data protection. However, long backup windows can cause headaches for IT and users while slowing down the network. We found that using source-side deduplication and Rapid CIFS technology to back up data to the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance was faster—with the average rate of data backup at 8.99 TB per hour. The backup to the DR6000 completed in two-thirds the time that the backup to the industry-leading deduplication appliance completed. Backing up to the DR6000 consumed less than one-sixth the bandwidth needed to back up to the industry-leading deduplication appliance. In addition, the DR6000 needed less rack space and cost a third less than the competition. The solution to lengthy backup windows is clear: Save time and network bandwidth with source-side deduplication built into the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Prepare images for machine learning faster with servers powered by AMD EPYC 7...Principled Technologies
A server cluster with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors achieved higher throughput and took less time to prepare images for classification than a server cluster with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain g...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a study that tested online transactional processing (OLTP) performance on two server solutions: a Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server with VMware vSphere 7.0, and a previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server with vSphere 6.7. The study found that the R940 solution processed over 30% more operations per minute than the R930 solution. Upgrading to the R940 platform provides benefits like more processor cores, memory, and PCIe capacity. VMware vSphere 7.0 features like vLCM could help scale Dell EMC environments, and integrating with OpenManage for vCenter allows faster updating, upgrading, and compatibility checking.
Elevate your e-commerce business by upgrading to the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740x...Principled Technologies
Upgrading from legacy Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with a SAN storage array to a VMware vSAN cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors provided a dramatic performance boost. The new cluster handled 11.4 times as many orders per minute as the legacy environment and 1.3 times as many orders per minute as a previous generation solution with 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The document recommends upgrading hardware to improve efficiency, support new technologies, and help businesses grow by handling more customers.
Moving your legacy database workloads to the Dell PowerEdge R930 can help you realize the benefits of consolidation, which can include savings in management costs, power usage, and cable management costs. More importantly, the licensing costs of the database application itself may be reduced by the consolidation effort. In addition to these benefits, greater database transactions per minute can keep your orders flowing smoothly.
We found that the Dell PowerEdge R930, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 series, could consolidate three legacy servers running four Oracle Database 12c VMs each. The Dell PowerEdge R930 outperformed the legacy server with 4.4 times the overall database performance, delivering an average of 47.1 percent more performance per VM. By consolidating that many legacy servers, you can save up to 67 percent in rack space, 25 percent in database licenses, and even reduce other operating costs to improve your bottom line.
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.
Upgrading key components in servers can significantly improve performance and capacity. The report tested upgrading components in Dell PowerEdge servers. It found that upgrading to newer Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with Intel Xeon and SSD components, Windows Server 2012, and 10GbE networking supported 4.5 times as many VMs as the older Dell PowerEdge R710 servers. Each individual component upgrade, such as the processor, storage, or network card, increased performance. But upgrading all components together maximized the number of supported VMs, database transactions, and email users.
Process 84% more MySQL database activity with the latest-gen Dell PowerEdge R...Principled Technologies
The 16th Generation server handled more database transactions than a previous-generation PowerEdge R750 server with vSphere 7
New servers and software versions can be a boon for your organization. If you’re running MySQL workloads for web applications, retail, or other use cases, your organization could see a performance boost by upgrading to latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 servers running VMware vSphere 8.0. In our testing, a PowerEdge R760 server handled 84.5 percent more NOPM than an older Dell PowerEdge R750 server. We also found that Live Optics infrastructure monitoring software allows you to view performance data for new PowerEdge R760 and vSphere 8.0 environments so you can manage those resources to optimize your MySQL workloads.
Boost transactional database performance of VMware vSAN clusters by replacing...Principled Technologies
Replacing older servers in a VMware vSAN cluster with new Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors can significantly improve transactional database performance. Testing showed the new servers delivered over 7 times the orders per minute of legacy servers and over 2 times the orders per minute of previous-generation servers. Additionally, the new servers were able to handle more transactions in the same amount of rack space, helping to reduce data center costs and sprawl.
Elevate your e-commerce business by upgrading to the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740x...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a study that tested the performance of Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors for an e-commerce workload. It found the new servers handled over 11 times as many orders per minute as legacy Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, and 1.3 times as many orders per minute as previous generation Dell R740xd servers with 1st generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Upgrading to the new servers powered by 2nd generation Intel processors could significantly improve an e-commerce business's ability to handle more customers by improving data center efficiency.
Boosting virtualization performance with Intel SSD DC Series P3600 NVMe SSDs ...Principled Technologies
When it comes time to make your server purchase or if you’re looking for an easy way to boost performance of existing infrastructure, consider upgrading your server’s internal storage. As our hands-on tests with a Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 environment running VMware Virtual SAN proved, Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs could increase virtualized mixed-workload performance by as much as 59.9 percent compared to SATA SSDs while allowing you to run a large additional number of VMs. When you improve performance for your virtualized workloads, your employees and customers will benefit. By increasing performance with Intel NVMe SSDs on your Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers, you can potentially slash wait times and do more work on your servers without having to expand your infrastructure with additional storage arrays, which can translate to happier users and a more efficient infrastructure.
Whether you’re looking for the highest possible performance per rack unit or the strongest RAS-enabled server to run your mission-critical databases, Dell has a server to meet your needs. Factors such as performance per rack, expansion capabilities, and flash storage options will also drive your server decision.
In our hands-on tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R820 server could handle up to 382,397 database orders per minute and had 73.6 percent greater performance per U of rack space than the R910.
The Dell PowerEdge R910 processed 440,475 OPM. Its high number of logical processors, maximum expansion capabilities, and support for RAS technologies make the Dell PowerEdge R910 an excellent choice for your mission-critical data center applications.
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.
The document describes testing of two Dell PowerEdge servers' ability to support graphics-accelerated virtual desktops. A Dell PowerEdge R740xd server with 3 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs supported 96 virtual desktops, 50% more than a Dell PowerEdge R730 server with 2 GPUs which supported 64 desktops. Both servers maintained below 80% CPU utilization. The R740xd's ability to support more desktops in the same rack space allows more efficient use of datacenter resources.
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.
Component upgrades from Intel and Dell can increase VM density and boost perf...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes an experiment conducted by Principled Technologies that tested the performance improvements from upgrading server components. They found that upgrading from a Dell PowerEdge R720 to a Dell PowerEdge R730 server, along with upgrading the processor, operating system, storage drives and network cards, increased the number of supported VMs by 67% and database performance by 60%. Upgrading all components maximized performance benefits.
The Dell PowerEdge R920 could replace nine older Oracle database servers and provide nine times the performance while reducing power consumption by 64% and lowering software licensing costs by 17%. Testing showed the R920 running Oracle Database 12c with pluggable databases provided significant savings over three years in power, cooling, and licensing costs compared to running the databases on nine older servers.
Get insight from document-based distributed MongoDB databases sooner and have...Principled Technologies
With additional drive bays and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers handled more Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) operations per second than previous-generation servers and handled them more efficiently
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $315,400 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Oracle Database 11g Release 2 – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
DellEMC PowerEdge R740xd Rack Server - Sinteza CoSintezaCo
The document compares the performance of Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Xeon Scalable processors using VMware vSAN storage against Dell PowerEdge R720 servers using traditional HDD storage. Testing showed the R740xd cluster processed database transactions 8 times faster, supported 12 times the input/output operations, and had 98% lower storage latency. This superior performance from the newer hardware could help businesses better support customer needs.
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Bring ideas to life with the HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation - InfographicPrincipled Technologies
We compared CPU performance and noise output of an HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation in High Performance Mode to a similarly configured Dell Precision 3660 Tower Workstation in its out-of-box performance mode
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.
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.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Introducing Milvus Lite: Easy-to-Install, Easy-to-Use vector database for you...Zilliz
Join us to introduce Milvus Lite, a vector database that can run on notebooks and laptops, share the same API with Milvus, and integrate with every popular GenAI framework. This webinar is perfect for developers seeking easy-to-use, well-integrated vector databases for their GenAI apps.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
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Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain greater OLTP performance - Summary
1. Executive summary
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with
VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain greater OLTP performance
This newer solution processed more operations per minute than a previous-
generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 with VMware vSphere 6.7
If your organization is using previous-generation servers,
you might be tempted to think that the performance
you’re getting is good enough. But upgrading to
the latest hardware and software can provide better
performance and new features that can help you better
manage your environment.1
To quantify the benefits of
a newer solution, we tested a Dell EMC™
PowerEdge™
R940 server equipped with the latest edition of VMware
vSphere®
7.0, against a previous‑generation Dell EMC
PowerEdge R930 with VMware vSphere 6.7.
We used Oracle®
Database 19c and the benchmark
tool DVD Store 3 to test online transactional processing
(OLTP) performance. The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940
with Intel®
Xeon®
Platinum 8260 processors handled 30
percent more operations per minute than the Dell EMC
PowerEdge R930 with Intel Xeon E7-8890 v3 processors.
It also offered additional hardware and software features
such as 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
(with up to 16 percent more cores per processor), 30
percent more PCIe capacity, up to 28 percent more
DDR4 memory, and new update capabilities with
vSphere Lifecyle Manager and Dell EMC OpenManage
Integration for VMware vCenter®
(OMIVV).2
By upgrading the previous-generation solution
we tested to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers
with VMware vSphere 7.0, organizations could
support more customers when running transactional
database workloads.
Boost transactional database performance
When we ran an OLTP workload on each solution, the
newer Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server handled 30
percent more operations per minute than the older
Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server. A solution that
offers greater OLTP performance could support more
users, potentially enabling organizations to expand
their customer base.
30%
more
Dell EMC PowerEdge R940
with VMware vSphere 7.0
1.3
1
Operations per minute
Dell EMC PowerEdge R930
with VMware vSphere 6.7
Figure 1: Operations per minute (normalized). Higher is better.
Source: Principled Technologies.
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain greater OLTP performance January 2021
A Principled Technologies report: Hands-on testing. Real-world results.
2. How the latest VMware vSphere 7.0 features could scale with your Dell EMC environment
We focused on single-node database virtualization in our testing, but many virtualized environments rely on multiple nodes for additional
performance, capacity, and data protection. VMware vSphere 7.0 provides new features that further support both small and large virtualized
environments, such as vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), improved Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and improved VM template
management.5, 6, 7
In addition to these features, Dell EMC offers OMIVV and Dell EMC add-ons, which can help organizations support Dell
EMC PowerEdge environments of varying sizes. We did not test these features, and gathered the information cited here from publicly
available sources.8, 9
Major feature comparison of Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 and R940 servers
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server configuration we tested costs approximately US$98,556.00. We obtained this pricing information
through a third-party reseller on November 12, 2020. The quote included the server hardware, VMware vSphere 7.0, Dell ProSupport, and
Next Business Day Onsite Service (the VMware software and Dell support services were for three years). Note that the RAM in the quotes we
received was for 3,200 MT/s, but we tested with 2,666 MT/s of RAM. Below is a table comparing the platform configuration capabilities of
the Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 and R940. By upgrading from the Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 platform to the R940 platform, organizations
could get up to 16 percent more cores per processor, up to 28 percent more DDR4 memory, and 30 percent more PCIe capacity.
Feature Dell EMC PowerEdge R9303
Dell EMC PowerEdge R9404 Difference with Dell EMC
PowerEdge R940
Processors
Up to four Intel Xeon E7-8800 v4 and
E7-4800 v4 processors
Up to four 2nd Generation Intel Xeon
Scalable processors
Newer Intel Xeon processors
Cores Up to 24 per processor Up to 28 per processor Up to 16% more cores per processor
Memory Up to 12 TB of DDR4 memory Up to 15.36 TB of DDR4 memory Up to 28% more DDR4 memory
PCIe capacity 10 PCIe 3.0 slots 13 PCIe Gen. 3 slots 30% more PCIe capacity
1 See the PT reports “New VMware vSphere 7.0 features reduced the time
and complexity of routine update and hardware compliance tasks”
(http://facts.pt/chz3xgi) and “Elevate your e-commerce business by
upgrading to the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd with 2nd Generation Intel
Xeon Scalable processors” (http://facts.pt/4mw53ty).
2 Calculations based on datasheets for the Dell EMC PowerEdge R930
(https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/
en/Documents/PowerEdge_R930_spec_sheet-FINAL.pdf) and R940
(https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_
Documents/en/aa/poweredge-r940-spec-sheet.pdf).
3 Dell EMC, “PowerEdge R930,” accessed 10/28/2020, https://i.dell.com/
sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Power-
Edge_R930_spec_sheet-FINAL.pdf.
4 Dell EMC, “PowerEdge R940,” accessed 10/28/2020, https://i.dell.com/
sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/aa/
poweredge-r940-spec-sheet.pdf.
5 Dell Technologies, “VMware vSphere Life Cycle Manager (vLCM) and
Dell EMC integration,” accessed 10/28/2020, https://downloads.dell.
com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_software_int/esuprt_software_vir-
tualization_solutions/vmware-esxi-7x_white-papers3_en-us.pdf.
6 Adam Eckerle, “Introducing vSphere 7: Features & Technology for the
Hybrid Cloud,” accessed 11/13/2020, https://blogs.vmware.com/
vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-features.html.
7 Nigel Hickey, “vSphere 7 – Content Library,” accessed 10/30/2020,
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-con-
tent-library.html.
8 Dell Technologies, “OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter,”
accessed 10/28/2020, https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/
sln311238/openmanage-integration-for-vmware-vcenter?lang=en.
9 Dell Technologies, “VMware vSphere Life Cycle Manager (vLCM) and
Dell EMC integration,” accessed 10/28/2020, https://downloads.dell.
com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_software_int/esuprt_software_vir-
tualization_solutions/vmware-esxi-7x_white-papers3_en-us.pdf.
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