Both servers are uniquely designed to leverage AMD-Virtualization (AMD-V) technology for enhanced virtualization performance to help businesses maximize valuable data centre real estate.

"Virtualization technology is an essential solution for businesses seeking to create efficient and easy to manage data centres", stated Patrick Patla, general manager, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. "Our processor technology combined with these new Dell PowerEdge servers offer a solution that can help speed mainstream virtualization adoption in the industry. We are excited that more customers now have greater choice in virtualization platforms and are able to take advantage of the performance leadership delivered by AMD's Direct Connect Architecture."

AMD's unique Direct Connect Architecture helps enable the efficient memory and I/O capabilities that memory-intensive virtualization servers require, while alleviating the bottleneck of traditional front-side bus architectures. Combined with AMD's Rapid Virtualization Indexing, which can significantly improve virtualization performance through more efficient virtual machine memory management, the new PowerEdge servers create an optimal virtualization platform tailored for performance and reliability. The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based Dell PowerEdge line of servers can support VMware ESXi 3.5, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition integrated hypervisors.