The company's flagship PowerEdge server has reached its eleventh generation and, like the Precision workstations, is based on the next generation of Intel's Xeon processors, code named "Nehalem".

The new PowerEdge portfolio supports native virtualisation and systems management, and Dell is claiming the industry's best performance per watt with the R710 model.

New PowerEdge servers now ship without optical disk drives, instead, the operating system is provisioned from on-board solid-state memory.

Pricing for the PowerEdge R710 starts from A$4,192 (US$2,923), including GST.

The new Dell Lifecycle Controller is integrated into all new PowerEdge servers.