Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Online Analytics Processing Performance Between Two Sets of Google Cloud Platform VM Instances with Intel Processors
Principled Technologies compared data analysis performance between two sets of Google Cloud Platform VM instances—one enabled by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the other by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - January 05, 2022
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release a Preview of WebXPRT 4, a Free Online Performance Evaluation Tool for Web-Enabled Devices
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released a preview of WebXPRT 4, a free online tool that runs in almost any browser and gives objective information about how well a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any other web-enabled device handles common web tasks. Anyone... - December 22, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Transactional Database Performance of One Amazon Public Cloud Instance and Two Microsoft Public Cloud VMs
Principled Technologies found that one Amazon EC2 r5B.16xlarge instance with EBS gp3 storage offered higher transaction throughput and lower average latency than an Azure VM using two different storage configurations. - December 16, 2021
New General-Purpose Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Handled More Web Traffic Than Older Azure VMs in Principled Technologies Study
Tests compared Ddsv5 series VMs with Ddsv4 VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 30, 2021
Azure Virtual Machines Based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 Processors Delivered Greater Performance on MySQL and Spark Machine Learning Workloads at a Lower Cost
Despite having lower Pay-as-You-Go pricing, Azure Standard_ HB120-64rs_v3 virtual machines based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 processors outperformed Azure Standard_E64ds_v4 virtual machines based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors in benchmark testing. - November 24, 2021
VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu Delivered Greater Resource Efficiency and Pod Density Than Bare-Metal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
The virtualized VMware vSphere platform with Tanzu reduced storage and memory usage and supported more than six times as many Kubernetes pods. - November 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing AWS SAN in the Cloud Solution to an On-Premises SAN
Principled Technologies (PT) tested an Amazon EC2 r5b.24xlarge instance with two io2 Block Express volumes and an on-premises NVMe-based all-flash SAN solution with a transactional database workload. - November 23, 2021
PT Releases Studies Comparing Dell EMC PowerEdge XS Servers to Previous-Generation Servers
Principled Technologies (PT) tested the transactional database and VDI performance of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge XS servers vs. popular previous-generation options powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Showing a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 Server Met Verification Standards for Three Milestone XProtect Video Workloads
In conjunction with Dell Technologies engineers, PT found that a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 server with a PowerEdge XE7420 node met stringent verification standards with four archivers. - November 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing MariaDB Performance of Two Series of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by Intel
Principled Technologies found that M6i series instances featuring newer Intel processors achieved better online transaction processing (OLTP) performance than M5 series instances featuring older processors. - November 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases a Second Study Comparing Two All-NVMe Database Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared a Dell EMC PowerStore 7000T storage solution to a similar solution from a different company (“Vendor B”). - November 16, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing SQL Server Performance of AWS EC2 M6i Instances vs. Older M5 Instances
In hands-on testing, PT found that M6i instances featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered faster data analysis for Microsoft SQL Server databases compared to M5 instances with older processors. - November 09, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That a Single Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Server with Kubernetes Containers Can Support Up to 47,150 Web App Users
With a VMware vSphere and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid environment, the server supported thousands of Weathervane users while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements. - November 09, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Process of Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services Solution to a Similar Competitor Solution
In hands-on testing, PT found that Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services deployed a managed Storage as-a-Service solution in as little as 13 days, which was quicker than the competitor solution. - November 05, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Processes for Two Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the purchase, procurement and installation processes for Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services versus for an HPE GreenLake data storage solution. - November 02, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Two All-NVMe Database Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 storage array to a similar array from another vendor. - October 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing MySQL Performance of AWS EC2 M6i Instances vs. Older M5 Instances
In hands-on testing, PT found that M6i instances featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered more MySQL transactions per minute than M5 instances with older processors. - October 18, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Three Chromebooks with Education Workflows
Principled Technologies tested three devices - two powered by Intel Core i5-1145G7 and Intel Core i7-1185G7 processors and one powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 3700C processor. - October 04, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Business User Experience Featuring the Dell Latitude 9420 vs. the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
In a series of tests, Principled Technologies (PT) found that the Dell Latitude 9420 offered better responsiveness on several benchmarks, longer battery life and cooler surface temperatures. - September 28, 2021
Principled Technologies Tests Deep Learning Inference Performance on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Powered by Intel
Principled Technologies tested newer Microsoft Azure Esv4-series VMs featuring Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors against older Esv3-series VMs featuring Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processors. - September 24, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Amazon Web Services M5n Instances Powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Principled Technologies tested newer M5n instances featuring Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors versus older M4 instances featuring Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors. - September 23, 2021
Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xa Solution Supported Up to 40 Remote Data Science Knowledge Workers, Principled Technologies Study Says
Solution featured 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and NVIDIA A100 Tensore Core GPUs - August 27, 2021
Windows 10 Laptops Powered by Intel Core i3-1125G4 and Intel Core i5-1135G7 Processors Saved Time in Various Apps, Principled Technologies Study Says
Compared to a laptop powered by an Intel Pentium N6000 processor, these two laptops were more responsive during several real-world tasks. - August 26, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Two Studies on the Benefits of New Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Studies compare VMs in online transaction processing and data analytics work - July 07, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Three Support Services’ Ability to Detect Hard Drive Issues
Dell ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist successfully detected a hard drive in a pre-failure state. - July 01, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Two Models of Acer Chromebook 712 Powered by Intel Processors
One Chromebook contained an Intel Core i3-10110U processor, while the other had an Intel Celeron 5205U processor. - June 29, 2021
Principled Technologies Publishes Report That Shows How eCommerce Applications Could Benefit from Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 Servers Running VMware vSAN
Principled Technologies (PT) found that replacing older servers in a VMware vSAN cluster with Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 servers powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors can help companies process more database transactions. - June 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That Upgrading to Latest-Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Servers Could Boost Data Analytics Performance
In hands-on testing by Principled Technologies (PT), the latest-generation server ran more data analysis workloads in less time than two older Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. - June 15, 2021
New Guide from Principled Technologies Demonstrates How to Use VMware vSAN HCI Mesh to Share Storage Resources Across Clusters
According to the report, the VMware technology can improve the flexibility of HCI storage and management. - June 10, 2021
Principled Technologies Publishes Kubernetes Image Processing Performance Study on Two Different Configurations of Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Server Clusters
When running a Kubernetes image processing workload in a VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 environment with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), Principled Technologies (PT) found that the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 cluster with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7543 processors saved time and achieved a higher FPS rate than the cluster with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7532 processors. - June 02, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases a Research Report About Dell Rugged Devices in Real-World Situations
Principled Technologies (PT) researched publicly available data, testimonials and reviews across a myriad of use cases to find out what the people who use and review Dell Rugged tablets and laptops think about how these ruggedized computers perform in the field. - May 13, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases New Study Comparing Two Kubernetes Clusters, One Virtualized Using VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and the Other Bare-Metal
On two cloud-based workloads, a Kubernetes cluster using VMware vSphere with TKG performed comparably to a bare-metal cluster running Ubuntu Linux and open-source Kubernetes. - May 12, 2021
Principled Technologies Publishes Comparison Study on SQL Server OLTP Performance from Two Configurations of Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Servers
Principled Technologies (PT) showed that a cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7543 processors achieved 15.6% more orders per minute than the same servers powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7532 processors. - May 11, 2021
New Study from Principled Technologies Shows k-means Clustering Performance from the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Server with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 75F3 Processors
Principled Technologies (PT) demonstrated that the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 server with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 75F3 processors analyzed data in less time, handled more data per hour, and delivered a better performance-per-dollar ratio than the same server with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7542 processors. - May 11, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Performance of Kubernetes Clusters Running on Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring Two Generations of Intel Xeon Processors
Newer D- and E-series VMs with Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors supported more users than older VMs enabled by previous-generation Intel Xeon processors. - April 30, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Kubernetes Performance on Amazon Web Services Instances Enabled by Two Generations of Intel Xeon Processors
Newer AWS R5n series instances featuring 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors supported more users than older R4 series instances featuring Intel Broadwell processors. - April 29, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Measuring Benchmark Performance and Battery Life of Four Business Laptops with Intel Core and AMD Ryzen Processors
Two Lenovo ThinkPad systems powered by Intel Core i3-10110U and Core i5-10310U vPro processors achieved better benchmark performance than equivalent systems with AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U and Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U processors and had comparable or better battery life. - April 29, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Assessing Aerospike Database Performance Leveraging Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters with Application Device Queues
In hands-on testing on Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers, PT found that utilizing Application Device Queues (ADQ) on Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters consistently improved Aerospike Database performance and predictability while offering near-linear scaling in both DRAM and Intel Optane persistent memory enabled configurations. - April 28, 2021
Principled Technologies' Setup Guide Shows How to Use the New Dell iDRAC9 Telemetry Reference Toolset with Elastic Stack
The guide enables data center engineers to start ingesting, querying and visualizing telemetry data from scratch in less than a day. - April 13, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases New Study Comparing OLTP Performance of Two Generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Servers
Next-generation PowerEdge MX750c servers did more SQL Server OLTP work and supported greater VM density than current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c servers. - April 12, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Deployment of Two Generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Servers
Deploying both next- and current-generation servers took less than two-and-a-half hours and involved the same tools and procedures. - April 12, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Showing a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 Server Met Verification Standards for Eight Genetec Security Center Video Workloads
In conjunction with Dell Technologies engineers, PT found that a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 server with dual PowerEdge XE7420 nodes met stringent verification standards with six archivers. - April 09, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Performance and Value for the Dell Precision 3640 Tower, Lenovo ThinkStation P340 and HP Z2 G5
In hands-on testing, PT found that the Dell Precision 3640 Tower workstation could provide better performance and value in some configurations than the two competitors they tested. - March 31, 2021
Two Security Features on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7543 Processors Minimally Affected OLTP Performance on a Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Server, Principled Technologies Study Says
A Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 server with AMD EPYC 7543 processors had similar OLTP performance with AMD SEV-ES and AMD SME enabled and disabled. - March 31, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That Running VMware Tanzu on a VMware vSphere 7.0 & Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Solution Can Provide Centralized Container Management Features
In a new report, Principled Technologies (PT) describes their experience deploying and managing containers with VMware Tanzu in a VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 environment running on Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers. - March 27, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That Latest-Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 Server Can Deliver More Raw IOPS Than Its Predecessor
In hands on testing at Principled Technologies (PT), the new Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 server delivered more input/output operations per second (IOPS) and disk bandwidth as well as lower latency in multiple input/output profiles than the previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640. - March 25, 2021
Principled Technologies Puts Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 Servers to the Test with Read-Intensive MongoDB Workloads
Principled Technologies (PT) found that Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 75F3 processors delivered better database performance and value than the same servers powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7542 processors. - March 18, 2021
New PT Studies Delve Into the Automation Advantages of the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Suite
Two new hands-on evaluations explore how automating high-touch server lifecycle management tasks with Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise integrations and plugins can lighten the load for IT admins. - March 18, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases VDI Study on a Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 Server with Two Generations of AMD EPYC Processors
An AMD EPYC 75F3 processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 server supported more VDI users and delivered better value per user than the same server powered by an AMD EPYC 7542 processor. - March 18, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That Organizations Can Set Shorter Backup and Recovery Windows for a VM Environment with a Dell EMC IDPA DP8800 Solution
The Dell EMC solution backed up and recovered virtual machines (VMs) faster than a key competing solution. - March 17, 2021