Servers

Winner:

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently introduced its newest MicroServer—the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus—designed to meet the needs of small businesses and the solution providers who serve them. With a size similar to a textbook and a weight of just 10 pounds, the system is about one-third of the size of existing server offerings in the market and yet still manages to offer twice the performance of its predecessor server. The system can be provisioned with powerful Intel Xeon E processors, or with less expensive Pentium chips, and includes HPE’s silicon root of trust technology that protects the system down to the firmware. Meanwhile, at the request of channel partners, the ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus comes equipped with Integrated Lights Out (iLO) technology that for the first time allows partners to monetize associated remote management services.

Finalists:

Bamboo Systems B1000N Series

The recently launched B1000N Series uses Bamboo Systems’ new system architecture, Bamboo PANDA (Parallel Arm Node Designed Architecture). PANDA-based servers such as the B1000N Series leverage methodologies that power modern microservices-based workloads, in order to minimize energy consumption while also delivering impressive density for high-throughput computing.

MemVerge Memory Machine

Targeted for data-intensive applications, the MemVerge Memory Machine combines persistent memory with “big memory” software. The Memory Machine software virtualizes DRAM and persistent memory, then provides access to persistent memory without changes to applications; makes persistent memory run at least as fast as DRAM; and introduces memory data services such as snapshots, replication and instant recovery.

PhoenixNAP FlexServers

With FlexServers, IaaS provider PhoenixNAP delivers a dedicated server offering that allows for vertical scaling of second-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to varying performance levels with one reboot. Because no hardware or software changes are required to adjust the CPU configuration, the offering enables both strong performance and cost efficiency.