Dell announced that the Dell PowerEdge FX converged architecture, 
introduced last November, has already helped customers around the world better manage, scale and budget for infrastructure to meet the needs of the business now and into the future. Dell also introduced three new modules for the PowerEdge FX portfolio to help organizations quickly configure complete workloads using modular building blocks of IT resources.
The company also announced that this month they are celebrating the 20-year anniversary of PowerEdge servers, its evolution and role in successfully serving customers over the last twenty years.
Speaking on the 20-year anniversary of PowerEdge Servers, Vishvas Chitale, Director, Chitale Dairy said, “We used Dell’s PowerEdge Servers while deploying our virtualized platform to support the massive growth in our operations and automation of our milk production process. The servers provided us with higher performance, efficiency, and simplified management, of our milk production and animal management plants- helping us take our cows to the cloud. Dell PowerEdge Servers have the highest mean time between failure over other competing systems. Dell’s ability to innovate its solutions in the face of changing IT environments has been one of the key reasons why PowerEdge has always been relevant to us. The product has truly been able to stand out, and ahead of competitors through the last 20 years of technology evolution.”
Gaurav Sharma, Research Manager, Enterprise Computing, IDC said, “The critical element of Dell’s growth in the recent past has been the server portfolio whose success is attributed mainly to the innovative and flexible architecture that has evolved over generations. With the latest cost optimized and compact PowerEdge FX variants, Dell is looking to address the rapidly changing application demands of the 3rd platform era in terms of performance and convergence coupled with agility.”
“With PowerEdge FX, Dell gives customers more freedom than ever to build the converged infrastructure they need to solve business needs of today and into the future,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice president and general manager, Dell Server Solutions. “By providing customers greater business agility and offering even more ways to optimize the building blocks of server, storage and networking to their workloads, we will continue to build on the great momentum we have seen to date with customers, partners and influencers.”
Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India said, “The strength of Dell’s PowerEdge has always been in its design, innovated over time to address customer requirements and IT trends. The new FX products package convenience for customers by addressing their need for flexibility and customization. The products allow customers to configure solutions using building blocks of IT while at the same time giving them the choice for systems management. The product has a distinct edge over competition; customers can now host 72 percent more users in 10 times less space with the new PowerEdge FX2 modules than the Cisco UCS. In a market like India where IT budgets are fairly tight, this provides the optimum server solution to address their workload demands, while still allowing the option of scaling up if necessary in the future.”
The company began its journey with PowerEdge servers in 1995, when five percent of the company’s revenue came from server sales and Dell had just three percent market share, ranking seventh in server unit shipments.
Dell holds the No. 2 position in the global x86 server market – a market that has grown more than 600 percent since 1996. Dell currently has 21 percent unit share, is the only top-three server vendor to gain worldwide unit share year over year, and is growing its server portfolio at more than two times the pace of the industry with customer-inspired innovations such as PowerEdge FX propelling the company forward.
In India, the company has consistently been among the top 3 in the x-86 server market over the last year and recorded the #1 position for Q32014 in terms of revenue generated, as per IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly x86 Strategist Server Tracker for 2014. Dell’s future-ready and customer centric approach has worked well and the company has successfully served customers including Flipkart, MakemyTrip, Hirotec, Chitale Dairy and UST Global.
Dell PowerEdge FX portfolio expanded for further infrastructure flexibility
The Dell PowerEdge FX portfolio will include three new modules to offer enterprises even more options for changing application demands. This gives customers even more ability to add or swap IT building blocks –into a 2U converged infrastructure chassis.
PowerEdge FX is designed with integrated management capabilities that allow customers to easily configure, manage and add capacity to complete workload-specific blocks of IT resources. Customers can choose the systems management style that best fits their needs – by managing servers individually like traditional rack servers or managing collectively as many do with blade servers.
