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IT CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH

Power & CoolingFor every $1 spent on server HW, 50 cents spent on power/cooling

Operating Cost$8 in maintenance for every $1 spent on new infrastructure

Space CrunchDatacenter construction costs>$1,000/sq ft

Data Proliferation & Server SprawlCorporate data growing 50X in next three years Servers growing 4X next 10 years

Source: IDC. 2

POWEREDGE SERVER PORTFOLIOCOVERING ENTERPRISE IT NEEDS FROM BASIC TO SPECIALIZED COMPUTING

COMPUTE NODE

MORE SPECIALIZATION

VIRTUALIZATION

R900

R905

R805

PE SC1435

4-SOCKET

PE 840,T300PE SC1430

PE SC440,T105, T100

R300, R200MORE BASIC

M-SeriesM1000e, M600, M605, M610

M710, M805, M905ULTRA

DENSITY

PE 2950, PE 2950 ES R710

PE 2900, T610

PE 1950, PE 1950 ES, R610

MOREDENSITY

MORE EXPANDABILITY

PE 2970,PE 2970 ES

PE 1900, T605 MORE BASIC

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Dell offers savings up to 41% over performance equivalent blade configurations from HP and IBM in acquisition costs and one-, three-, and five-year TCO.*

* Based on Principled Technologies report “Total cost of ownership (TCO) of Dell, HP, and IBM blade solutions” commissioned by Dell in September 2008. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space.

THE NEXT LEVEL OF BLADES

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M605 & M610 HALF HEIGHTM805, M905 & M710 FULL

HEIGHT

FEATURES & BENEFITS•Designed for virtualization, database and messaging workloads

•Latest Intel and AMD architectures

•Future-ready, capable of supporting multiple generations of blade servers and upcoming I/O technologies

•More DIMM slots and I/O ports deliver higher connectivity capacity and flexibility

•FlexIO technology eliminates “rip and replace” blade switch upgrades

•FlexAddress provides slot-assigned, persistent WWN/MAC without additional, complicated management tools or proprietary hardware

•Lower power consumption with Energy Smart Technologies

M1000E CHASSIS

THE NEXT GENERATION POWEREDGE SERVERS

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENTSimplified Infrastructure

Management

INSPIRED DESIGNCustomer Driven Usability & Design

POWER &THERMALSEnergy Tuned Technologies

VIRTUALIZATIONEnhanced Virtualization

Performance

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11G POWEREDGE PORTFOLIO WAVE 1

• Unprecedented RELIABILITY and COMMONALITY• Distinguished, PURPOSEFUL Design• Industry leading system EFFICIENCY• VIRTUALIZATION optimized: Increased memory (DDR3) & I/O • New Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) series processors

T610: 2S TowerR610 & R710: 2S

RacksM610 & M710: Half & Full Height Blades

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UNMATCHED BUSINESS CAPABILITIESINTEL® XEON® PROCESSOR 5500 SERIES

Up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing† Up to 2.25x the performance for enterprise computing† 2x software threads and performance boost on demand

Intelligent Performance

Flexible Virtualization

• Expand existing pools with Intel VT FlexMigration• Unique capabilities for live VM migration over network• Highest 2S virtualization scores mean more VMs per server†

Automated Energy Efficiency

• Highest system level performance/watt† • Lower system idle power reduces IT costs• Dynamically turns cores on/off to meet performance needs

† Source: Intel internal measurements, January 2009. For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.

Boost performance and lower IT costs

• Image COMMONALITY Across Platforms• Clean, CONSISTENT placement of interface ports and LCD• REDUCED COMPLEXITY of internal cabling • Obvious, clear component ORGANIZATION• CONSISTENT rack installation and removal, slam latch design

PURPOSEFUL DESIGN: COMMONALITY

Clean Component Organization Consistent PSU Latch Design

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• ALL STEEL CONSTRUCTION cable mgt. arm eliminates creep• NEW METAL Hard Drive Carriers• Robust fan cage design with blind mate single pull fan

module for IMPROVED MAINTENANCE• Quick release rack latching for EASY DEPLOYMENT• Multi-layer LCD screen positioned on the front of the bezel for

AISLE LEVEL ACCESS to monitor and maintain

PURPOSEFUL DESIGN: RELIABILITY

Quality Steel Components Clear Multi-layer LCD

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• Right sized power supplies 90%+ EFFICENT Design• Right sized PSUs LOWERS POWER DRAW at base server level • Power Management features POWER CAPPING, power

inventory & budget• Far more EFFICICENT MODULAR fan design

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11G BEST POWER & THERMALS

Modular Cooling Fan Design Right Sized Power Supplies

LIFECYCLE CONTROLLERSIMPLIFIES SERVER MANAGEMENT

• Only vendor to deliver SIMPLIFIED embedded management• Zero Media, SIMPLIFIED Deployment• STREAMLINED server update process• Minimum FASTER server deployment

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Confusing, Complex, Resource Intensive, Slow and Proprietary

Dell Lifecycle ControllerEmbedded Management

EMBEDDED MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS

Lifecycle Controller with

iDRAC Express

iDRAC6 Enterprise

vFlash

Unified Server Configurator GUI

Hardware component that enables embedded management

Persistent storage of OM tools, firmware, drivers, etc. Accessible via Unified Server Configurator GUI

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…vFlash Media

RJ-45

EMBEDDED MANAGEMENT LIFECYCLE CONTROLLER

Feature Benefit

Faster OS Installation• Enables users to prepare hardware for operating system

installation • Drivers, firmware and the installation utility are embedded on

system, cutting deployment time significantly

Faster System Updates 

• Integration with Dell support automatically directs to latest versions of firmware and drivers so no need to scour dell.com

• Can also opt to pull updated from local repository or a USB key

More Comprehensive Diagnostics* 

• Diagnostics are embedded in persistent memory, so are always available for quicker troubleshooting to reduce downtime

• Can perform diagnostics to validate the memory, I/O devices, CPU, physical disks, and other peripherals.

Simplified Hardware Configuration* 

• Detects RAID controller and allows user to configure virtual disk and choose virtual disk as boot device, eliminating the need to launch a separate utility

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EMBEDDED MANAGEMENT UNIFIED SERVER CONFIGURATOR FEATURES

* Not available on 100 series servers. Available for extra charge for 200-500 series servers.

Lifecycle Controller Enabled