General-purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration

Maximize your application performance with the Dell PowerEdge R740  server, which brings you the perfect balance of accelerator cards, storage, and compute resources in a 2U, 2-socket platform. With up to three 300W accelerator cards or six 150W cards, Dell PowerEdge R740  has the versatility to adapt to virtually any application and provides the optimum platform for VDI deployments. Dell PowerEdge R740  offers up to 16 x 2.5” or 8 x 3.5” drives and iDRAC9, so you can scale to meet demands and simplify the entire IT lifecycle.

Ideal workloads:

• VDI
• Private cloud
• Artificial intelligence
• Machine learning

Achieve IT transformation with theDell PowerEdge R740  PowerEdge portfolio

The Dell PowerEdge R740  is a general-purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration. With its versatility, the R740 can help you transform your data center for VDI, artificial intelligence and software-defined storage (SDS).

• Simplify and accelerate VMware vSAN™ deployments with validated, pre-bundled and tailored Ready Nodes.
• Scale compute resources with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, delivering a 27% increase in processing cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over previous generation of Xeon processors.
• Scale your VDI deployments with 3 double-width GPUs, supporting up to 50% more users when compared to R730.
• Free up storage space using internal M.2 SSDs optimized for boot.

Automate productivity with intelligent, embedded management

Dell PowerEdge R740   automation and intelligent management mean you spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on bigger priorities.

• Help maximize uptime with proactive diagnostics and automated remediation that increase productivity up to 90%.
• Leverage existing management consoles with easy integrations for VMware® vSphere®, Microsoft® System Center and Nagios®.
• Help improve productivity with agent-free Dell EMC iDRAC9 for automated, efficient management.
• Simplify deployment with OpenManage next-generation console and server profiles to fully configure and prep servers in rapid, scalable fashion.

Fortify your data center with comprehensive protection

Dell PowerEdge R740  provides a comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server to protect your data.

• Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down.
• Use system erases of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers.
• Automate updates that check file dependencies and proper update sequence, before deploying them independently from the OS/hypervisor.
• Take control of your firmware consoles with embedded authentication that is designed to allow only properly designed updates to run.

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