The Most Innovative Products of 2011

Servers: Dell PowerEdge C6145

Dell designed the PowerEdge C6145 with virtualization in mind, but performance couldn’t have been an afterthought. By far the fastest, most powerful mainstream enterprise iron that's ever come through the CRN Test Center, we think of it more as two servers in one 2U chassis, the C6145 can pack up to 96 AMD processor cores, 1TB of memory and 10 PCIe expansion cards, all of which share power and storage mechanicals.