DataON Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI with 5th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors

DataON, division of Area Electronics Systems, Inc., is deploying 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors in its Integrated Systems and validated nodes for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.

5th Gen Xeon processors offer benefits when paired with DataON Integrated Systems and validated nodes for Azure Stack HCI. With their improved compute and AI performance, enhanced security, and increased scalability, these processors can help organizations unlock the full potential of their hybrid cloud workloads.

Intel Corp. technologies have always been an important part of DataON solutions for Azure Stack HCI. The 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, with its advanced performance, security, and AI capabilities will help customers accelerate their digital transformation with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach.

5th Gen Xeon processors’ built-in accelerators enable organizations to offload tasks from CPU cores, reducing the number of cores needed per workload and allowing for the ability to run more VMs and applications like Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, Azure Kubernetes Services enabled by Azure Arc, SQL Server, and more on your Azure Stack HCI deployments. 5th Gen Xeon processors also excel in various AI use cases, including GenAI, recommender systems, and natural language processing (NLP), with its built-in AI accelerators.

New memory and I/O technologies featured in 5th Gen Xeon processors, include support for DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and Compute Xpress Link (CXL):

• DDR5 – Improves compute performance by overcoming data bottlenecks with high memory bandwidth. It offers up to 1.7x bandwidth improvement over DDR4, enabling better performance, capacity, power efficiency, and cost savings. It also supports DDR5 memory speeds up to 5,600MT/s (1 DPC) or 4,400MT/s (2 DPC), enhancing performance for memory-bound and latency-sensitive workloads.

• PCIe 5.0 – Doubles the I/O bandwidth compared to PCIe 4.0. 5th Gen Xeon processors provide 80 lanes of PCIe 5.0, ideal for fast networking, high-bandwidth accelerators, and high-performance storage devices. It also maintains backward compatibility with PCIe 4.0 and offers foundational slots for CXL (Compute Express Link).

• CXL support – Enables a unified, coherent memory space between different components and reduces compute latency in data centers, helping to lower the TCO. It also runs across the standard PCIe physical layer and supports both standard PCIe devices and CXL devices on the same link.

“Intel technologies have always been an important part of DataON solutions for Azure Stack HCI and Azure hybrid cloud workloads,” said Howard Lo, VP, sales and marketing, DataON. “The 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with their advanced performance, security, and AI capabilities will help customers accelerate their digital transformation with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach and its hybrid cloud support.“

“Intel is proud of its long-standing partnership with DataON,” said Dorin Vanderjack, VP and GM, US OEM and strategic account sales, Intel.” DataON, Intel, and Microsoft have collaborated for many years to develop robust end-to-end hybrid cloud solutions based on Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. New 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors provide trusted performance, security, and the ability to accelerate demanding AI workloads.“

Dean Paron, director, partner program management, Microsoft Corp., said: “Customers’ IT and business needs are always changing. This is why we introduced the adaptive cloud approach, enabled by Microsoft Azure Arc, to unify distributed infrastructure and simplify on-premises deployments as well as hybrid management. Customers can take advantage of Azure’s AI-enhanced central operations, app, and data model across heterogeneous environments, and further use cloud-native technologies to drive innovation. Azure hybrid cloud solutions from DataON, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, will help organizations run their workloads faster, more efficiently and more securely.“

DataON solutions for Azure hybrid cloud workloads, powered by 5th Gen Xeon processors, are designed to accelerate customers’ hybrid cloud journey, combining the company’s servers with Azure Stack HCI and Azure hybrid cloud workloads for a turnkey design, deployment, and integration experience with white glove service and support.