Dell to the power of four

Dell has today announced the addition of its ninth-generation PowerEdge servers, the first to be powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors. Not only is this good from the performance perspective but also when it comes to bang for your buck in the enterprise, with up to 40 percent enhanced performance per watt figures. But perhaps it is the Precision decision, as Dell has added quad-core processors across the entire desktop portfolio as well, that will be of most interest. This means that Dell now has standards-based professional workstations that can perform with the best of them. For example, when configured with quad-core processors a Precision 690 can deliver up to 54 percent better performance when using multi-threaded applications.