This year's winner in the Server category shattered performance records of all that had come before. It's designed for virtualization, high-performance computing, medical imaging, email service and other workloads hungry for storage and I/O performance. This rack-based powerhouse combines extraordinary memory and storage capacities with highly impressive I/O performance, reinforcing it with availability and serviceability features and unparalleled management tools, to deliver outstanding value and rock-solid reliability to the enterprise. This year's winner in the Server category was Dell and the PowerEdge R720xd server. Accepting for Dell was Thomas Garvens, executive director of Enterprise Server Development.