New generations of commodity servers typically deliver incremental updates to CPU, memory, power, and storage. It’s not often that you see real innovation making its way into these systems. With the release of the 13th-generation PowerEdge R730xd, Dell has shown that innovation still lives in 2U, two-socket servers.

Specific use cases for the PowerEdge R730xd include Microsoft Exchange, with the ability to support a large number of mailboxes on a single system. You could use the same configuration for a high-end Microsoft SharePoint server. Another excellent use case for the PowerEdge R730xd comes is software-defined storage based on products such as Microsoft Storage Spaces, Ceph for Openstack, and VMware Virtual SAN. Total available storage can also be expanded with the addition of a Dell Storage MD1400 direct-attached storage enclosure.

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