Dell launches AMD Opteron powered Server products

Dell might be facing serious competition from Hewlett Packard in terms of sales of personal computers but they are fighting back.

The company has just announced two new server products powered with AMD Opteron range of processors.

This means that Intel’s exclusivity in Dell’s range of products is now over. The company has launched two systems: the four-processor PowerEdge 6950, for higher-end tasks such as housing databases, and the two-processor PowerEdge SC1435, for high-performance computing clusters or hosting Web sites.

Dell is already selling AMD powered personal computers.

Market analyst Michelle Bailey said in a statement on this new development: “It’s about time they did something. They’ve seen so much competition in the marketplace, particularly from HP, that their customers are probably asking, ‘Why don’t you offer me this?’”

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