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Fastest storage option available in a mainstream 2U server
Highly customizable chassis and BIOS to configure exactly for your environment
Dell is the first of the tier 1 vendors to ship a Xeon E5 server into the 2P2U space
And we were very impressed with what the R720 has to offer. It performed faultlessly throughout our tests and certainly hits the sweet spot. The competition will have to
Fastest storage option available in a mainstream 2U server, Highly customizable chassis and BIOS to configure exactly for your environment, Excellent monitoring and management features
The Dell PowerEdge R720 12th Generation server is not only well-designed with loads of great management features, it's also the best performing server on the market in this class. Sure, it's great as a garden variety standard compute server, but with Expr...
Abstract: Dell R720 Edges Ahead of HP in 2U Rack-Mount Server Performance Tests ( Page 1 of 2 )The Dell PowerEdge R720 2U rack-mount server scored impressive results in eWEEK Labs' benchmark tests and comes with a bevy of enhanced features that make the 12th-gen...
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Published: 2012-04-19, Author: Alan , review by: zdnet.com
Dell is the first of the tier 1 vendors to ship a Xeon E5 server into the 2P2U space, and we were very impressed with what the R720 has to offer. It performed faultlessly throughout our tests and certainly hits the sweet spot. The competition will have to
Beefy and expandableThe R720xd's specs are impressive. Broad strokes: My test machine came equipped with dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 Sandy Bridge CPUs, each with eight cores running at 2.2GHz, 64GB of RAM (expandable up to 768GB via 24 DIMM slots), and six...
Abstract: Page 1 of 2 And the winner is...the Dell PowerEdge R720, the 12th generation two-socket, 2U Xeon server, which outperformed last year's CRN Product of the Year for Servers, its cousin, Dell PowerEdge C6145, by a substantial margin. Announced last week ...
Published: 2013-12-26, Author: Dave , review by: itpro.co.uk
Supports E52600 v2 Xeons, superb design, high expansion potential, excellent virtualisation features
CacheCade still only accelerates read ops
Dell's PowerEdge R720 just keeps on getting better, making it well suited to running a wide range of business applications. Its E5-2600 v2 Xeons deliver more cores for less power, expansion potential is superb and its CacheCade feature can seriously boos...
Abstract: After much delay, Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 processor finally got the official go-ahead in March with the big name vendors all pledging support for the new 32nm chips, including Dell which has started the product ball rolling with the new PowerEdge R720 . ...
Intel Xeon E52600 processors, Up to 768GB memory, Enhanced storage capacity and performance, PCIe 3.0 expansion and support for PCIe SSD storage, iDRAC7 remote management plus Dell Lifecycle Controller 2.0
Choosing the right processor/memory combination can be complex
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Published: 2012-03-06, Author: Dave , review by: itpro.co.uk
As a general-purpose 2U rack server, the PowerEdge R720 looks capable of running any application that can be thrown at it. Its massive memory capacity and hypervisor redundancy make it ideal for virtualisation, while the storage capacity, expansion pot...
