Dell EMC Readies New PowerEdge Hardware for AI, IoT — Redmondmag.com
“PowerEdge MX, with its kinetic infrastructure, is uniquely designed without a mid-plane, enabling support for multiple generations of technology. Specifically, the absence of a mid-plane enables direct compute to I/O module connections, allowing for future technology upgrades without disrupting customer operations and without a mid-plane upgrade,” the company explained. “With this approach, PowerEdge MX is prepared to one day support fully disaggregated components, down to memory-centric devices, such as storage class memory, GPUs and FPGAs, to offer customers full composability.”
The company also pointed out that PowerEdge MX is designed for the software-designed datacenter. “[It’s] able to support a combination of dense virtualization, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, artificial intelligence and big data projects. … By creating on-the-fly hardware capacity, over-provisioning and stranded assets are reduced as performance and efficiency are optimized.”