back to article Core blimey: Dell dunks hyperconverged server lines in Skylake

Dell is increasing the performance of its hyperconverged product lines by adding 14G PowerEdge servers amid triple-digit VxRail revenue growth. Is this just a short-term spurt or something deeper? Dell's VxRail and XC Series appliances will use the latest Xeon Scalable Processor CPUs. The XC Series is also being given new NVMe …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Welcome, took you long enough

    Cisco here, AC for obvious reasons.

    Welcome to the Skylake party, Dell folks. But what took you so long? UCS M5 and UCS HX M5 was available since July, shipping in volume since September.

    Happy hunting and looking forward to seeing you in the field. Happy holidays to you all.

    1. Fenton

      Re: Welcome, took you long enough

      Dell servers have been skylake enabled for ages, it is just the VxRail HCI solution that has now been validated for skylake with ESXi and VSAN, hence the HCI appliance can be shipped with Skylake

  2. Mark 110

    Why amazed?

    "Somewhat to our amazement, Dell has more than a million individual HCI configurations, millions in fact, taking all the nit-picking options into account."

    Dell have an established and profitable distribution network with established relationships between account managers and their clients. Seems a bit obvious that established players will establish better sales than new players without the sales network.

    Its not amazing. Obvious?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Why amazed?

      Hi Shirley

      Millions of individual HCI configurations but only 11,000 HCI customers sounds like a small mismatch, even with such an outstanding established and profitable distribution network....

      Baffled of Birmingham

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