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^{1, 9, 27} Dell EMC Engineering has tested and approved a maximum of 3 NVIDIA® GPUs in the 14G R740xd server compared to 2 GPUs in 13G R730 server. The NVIDIA Tesla® M10 GPU Accelerator supports up to 64 users per GPU board. For more information: http://images.nvidia.com/content/tesla/pdf/188359-Tesla-M10-DS-NV-Aug19-A4-fnl-Web.pdf

^{2, 8} Principled Technologies (PT) report commissioned by Dell EMC, “Faster, More Powerful Handling of Database Workloads,” June 2017, using the DVDStore2 benchmark comparing R720 servers with HDD-based EqualLogic shared storage versus R740xd servers with Internal NVMe and SAS SSD disks in a 2-node vSAN cluster. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. Full Report: facts.pt/7PjXq2

³ Microsoft SQL Server 2016 users can see dramatic overall speed increases by leveraging PowerEdge 14G and NVDIMM-N modules for 2 to 4x faster (and safer) transaction log writes. Based on Dell EMC internal analysis, April 2017.

⁴ Based on a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by Dell EMC, “Why Faster Refresh Cycles And Modern Infrastructure Management Are Critical To Business Success,” May 2019. Results from a survey of 508 IT infrastructure technology decision makers. Full study: https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/servers/index.htm#cobrand=intel&overlay=/collaterals/unauth/analyst-reports/solutions/forrester-why-faster-refresh-cycles-and-modern-infrastructure-management-are-critical-to-business-success.pdf

^{5, 7, 11} IDC Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2019.

^{10, 22, 31} Based on June 2018 Principled Technologies Report commissioned by Dell EMC, “Save Time and IT Effort Resolving Server Hardware Issues with ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist,” vs. Basic Warranty without SupportAssist. Actual results will vary. Full report: http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/ProSupport_Plus_with_SupportAssist_for_servers_0618.pdf

¹² SAP BW Advanced Mixed Load, August 2017. Dell EMC PowerEdge R940, four Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processors/112 cores/224 threads, 1536 GB main memory. Throughput/hour (advanced query navigation steps): 56,600; Normalized mean runtime single query test: 3.51 seconds/billion records; Total runtime delta load/transformation test: 220 seconds. SAP published: http://www.sap.com/benchmark Certification #2017037

¹³ Based on Dell EMC testing using TPCx-Big Bench for Scale Factor 100000, March 2018. Dell EMC test results validated by InfoSizing, an independent 3rd party. See TPCx-BB - Top Ten Performance Results for additional detail.

^{14, 26} Based on Dell EMC internal analysis, April 21, 2017.

¹⁵ Based on Dell EMC internal testing in March 2019 comparing a PowerEdge R740xd with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and 2 x 1.6TB Mixed Use NVMes using Microsoft SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.3, VMware ESXi 6.7U1 and a RHEL 7.6GA vs the same R740xd configuration except for substituting the NVMes for 12 x 256GB DIMMs of Intel® Optane^TM DC persistent memory. Workload used is derived from TPC-C to SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.3 performance. The results obtained with the derived workload are not comparable to published TPC-C results. Actual results will vary.

¹⁶ R740xd server configured with NVMe SSDs running Microsoft SQL Server in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment completed the same TPC-H-like workload performance 20.8 times faster than a 12th generation PowerEdge R720xd configured with HDD storage. Principled Technologies (PT) commissioned by Dell EMC, "Consolidate Your Data Analytics Servers with Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd," October 2017. Full Report: http://facts.pt/rszSR7.

¹⁷ Dell EMC internal analysis, February 2018, comparing to the Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e with a legacy MXL switch.

^{18, 19, 20} Dell internal analysis in July 2017 comparing the previous generation T630 specifications vs.T640 specifications.

²¹ Based on Principled Technologies report, “Simplifying Systems Management with Dell OpenManage on 13G Dell PowerEdge Servers,” commissioned by Dell, testing Dell’s 13th-generation R730 with Enterprise-level Dell systems management, August 2014.

^{23, 29} Principled Technologies (PT) commissioned by Dell EMC, “Save Server Management Time and Effort for IT Staff,” June 2017, where PT analyzed the number of steps and time required to set iDRAC IP address and network settings, change default password, and modify BIOS attributes comparing 14G Quick Sync 2 to using a crash cart. Full Report: http://facts.pt/YaZXCm

²⁴ PowerEdge XR2 has been tested and certified to MIL-STD-810G standards, performed and reported independently by accredited testing companies, 2018.

²⁵ PowerEdge XR2 has been tested and certified to MIL-STD-810G, IEC 60945 and DNV 2.4 standards, performed and reported independently by accredited testing companies, 2018.

²⁸ Based on Principled Technologies report commissioned by Dell EMC, October 2018, “Ensure Greater Uptime and Boost VMware vSAN Cluster Performance with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Platform” comparing vSAN Ready Node performance on Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with four MX740c servers with Scalable SmartFabric vs HPE Synergy 12000 Frame with four HPE Synergy 480c Gen 10 severs vs Cisco UCS 5108 chassis with four B200 M5 servers similarly configured using vSAN All Flash 4 VMware certified configurations. Actual results will vary. Full Report: http://facts.pt/3jrn39