Discover how Intel, Microsoft and Dell can help you transform your data center into a private cloud with their innovative and scalable platform solution. Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 and Dell™ PowerEdge™ 12th-generation servers that run on Intel® Xeon® processor product families provide a unified framework for managing and securing your IT assets. The combined platform helps you implement targeted improvements throughout your existing environments as you gradually move to the cloud.
Start building your cloud today and enjoy the benefits of optimized performance and functionality across the entire server, network and storage infrastructure. This scalable and dynamic infrastructure can enable you to:
- Scale performance and reliability at every point — Replace your aging servers with two- or four-socket servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to boost performance and improve energy efficiency. Avoid errors and maintain data integrity with Machine Check Architecture Recovery of Intel Xeon processor E7 family.
- Virtualize heavy workloads — Configure your virtual machines with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper V™. Run more machines in less space with PowerEdge 12th-generation servers, and keep your data flowing rapidly with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.
- Virtualize and consolidate your network — Support a highly dynamic cloud environment with Windows Server 2012 and Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Converged Network Adapters.
- Drive new storage efficiencies — Layer feature-rich, storage area network (SAN)-like functionality on top of inexpensive disk arrays with Server Messaging Block (SMB) 3.0 of Windows Server 2012.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Intel Xeon processor E5 family and Dell PowerEdge generation servers can help you seamlessly transfer to cloud without adding multiple layers of cost and complexity to your existing infrastructure.