After three years, Microsoft is once again releasing a powerful new server operating system in the form of Windows Server 2022. And to coincide with the launch, we are pleased to unreservedly recommend its use on our RECT™ servers.

Windows Server 2022 provides the hardware with largely those features that Microsoft brought to the market with Windows Server 2019. However, the version number 2022 now represents further development. And this is, at its core, the improvement of essential and key functions that are considered fundamental to a modern business in 2021. Security, convenience and visibility, performance and scalability; Windows Server 2022 enhances all of these, making it the undisputed best practice solution on our RECT™ servers.

Like its predecessors the new Windows Server 2022 comes in Essentials, Standard and Datacenter Editions. For details and recommendations, please see the relevant system configuration or talk to our competent customer consultants.

One thing remains very simple: Windows Server 2022 runs on any RECT™ tower or rack server. Recommended unreservedly.

Find out more here or speak with one of our consultants.

All roads currently lead to “Rome” in the server room. AMD makes sure of this with its new ZEN 2 architecture and the associated EPYC™ 7200 series processors that can now unfold their full unrivalled power in the RECT™ 35 series single-socket and the RECT™ 36 series dual-socket servers.

The CPUs were developed by AMD under the codename “Rome” and provide ZEN2 and 7nm production technology in RECT™ servers, boosting performance in all relevant areas – more cores, greater memory capacity, more storage bandwidth, faster PCIe lines while retaining the industry-leading number. And AMD combines all this with new safety features.

The basic specifications are compelling: up to 64 cores with 128 threads in a single socket and up to 128 cores with 256 threads in a dual socket; up to 3.2 GHz per CPU at the base clocking frequency and up to 3.4 GHz at maximum boost frequency with a total of up to 256 MB cache. It also features 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and DDR4 memory connected over 8 channels at up to 3200 MHz.

The new EPYCs therefore offer maximum core density in a server and combine this with the fastest state-of-the-art I/O standards (first platform with PCIe 4.0) and also integrate security features hard-wired into the core. The RECT™ server platform is therefore one which enhances every IT infrastructure over the long term, whether in a company or a data center. The performance advantage is obvious in all areas – in traditional corporate applications and virtualised environments, in complex cloud environments and in modern, software-defined infrastructures, as well as in high-performance clusters and data analytics.

RECT™ servers based on the AMD ZEN 2 and EPYC™ platform deliver AMD's masterly performance directly to the application and are now available from the RECT™ Shop with configurator.

Find out more here or speak with one of our consultants. They’ll be happy to show you the new models.

Windows 2019 is Microsoft's latest and most advanced server operating system, and it can now be pre-loaded onto all RECT servers. This means new features and ground-breaking performance for your business-critical areas such as security and system monitoring as well as in the analysis and integration of storage and application containers over distributed hosts.

As a Microsoft partner, we were able perform extensive testing with the new service operating system on our latest platforms at an early stage before the actual release. Windows is our clear recommendation. The new features and further development really do deliver the advantages claimed by Microsoft in terms of security and performance as well as in the integration of services from other platforms and cloud functions.

For example, Azure cloud services like File Sync and Disaster Recovery can be incorporated. With Kubernetes, it is not just Windows containers that run in parallel on one server instance. And Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) now also allows administrators to use CLI tools from the world of Linux in Windows Server – in addition to cmd and PowerShell.

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is an integrated platform that offers preventive protection and the detection of attacks that have already taken place together with automated examinations and responses: always up-to-date and immediate.

Windows Admin Center is a central console that consolidates all aspects of server administration (whether remote or local). It allows complete control over all types of network and connected servers, clusters and clients, increasingly creating a bridge to a hyperconvergent infrastructure.

Like its predecessor, the new Windows Server 2019 comes in Standard, Essentials and Datacenter editions. For details and recommendations, please see the relevant system configuration or talk to our competent customer consultants.

With the three new “T Models”, RECT™ servers for the small entry segment offer the right performance gain for price-sensitive and simple as well as small server environments. They offer environments that need to remain agile and powerful within tight budget limitations a perfectly rounded entry package with excellent scalability in accordance with individual performance parameters.

Based on the latest Intel® Core™ technology (Coffee Lake), the new RECT™ small entry 67C-T servers are primarily intended for small businesses, offices and branch offices and offer a sound mix of flexibility and efficiency when real power boost is required despite tight budget limitations. In return, the new servers bring real improvements through accelerated computing power offer and shorter response times:

• CPUs with up to 6 cores and 12 threads, and with up to 3.7 GHz base clocking and 4.7 GHz turbo mode


• Up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM at 2666 MHz over two channels


• Combinable storage pool consisting of NVMe SSDs together with S-ATA SSDs and HDDs

The new small entry serves thus offer very flexible configuration options for greater computing power, high overall storage capacity and extensible RAM memory. They feature up to four DDR4 memory slots and, depending on model, up to four or five hard disks or flash storage solutions (SSDs).

The 67C-T series currently includes the following models:

RECT Tower Server TS-3267C4-T / ... an easy-to-administer tower server ideal for small businesses and branch offices that do not wish to forego peace, convenience and easy maintainability in a simple IT infrastructure or close to the workplace. Hot-swappable removable trays for storage drives that permit direct access to and replacement of disks provide additional ease of operation.

RECT Rack Server RS-8667C-T / ... an extremely rational server system with excellent space utilization with a height of two rack units and smaller dimensions (only 457mm). Ideal for small and medium-sized IT environments with a 19” infrastructure.

RECT Rack Server RS-8876C5-T / ... an easy-to-handle rack server system with a height of 4 rack units (in standard 19"). Ideal for simple extension in the area of PCIe slots (dual profile also possible), while at the same time offering full convenience in the area of storage with a total of up to 5 storage drives in a hot-swappable removable tray.

The new RECT™ 67C-T entry servers can be combined with CORETO’s popular hardware, software and services packages. They therefore support future growth in the business.

Availability
RECT™ 67C-T series servers TS-3267C4-T, RS-8667C-T and RS-8876C5-T are now available.

CORETO has introduced two new RECT™ workstations based on the brand new AMD Ryzen™ CPUs with their AM4 socket. High core density and fast clocking speeds are combined with the latest I/O standards (NVMe M.2 and PCI Express® 3.0) as well as a host of innovative features (SMT, XFR and AMD SenseMI).

With the RECT™ 23-series, the RECT™ shop now offers two systems for digital production that easily match the very latest performance standards while creating new scope for choice thanks to their favourable price. The unrivalled price-performance ratio of the AMD CPUs simply frees up scope for the overall configuration and gives you greater freedom to optimise the performance of the other components (such as RAM, storage and graphics).

Click here to find out more about the new RECT™ 23-series. Or speak to one of our advisers. They’ll be happy to show you the new models.

A performance boost for all RECT servers with Intel® Xeon® E3 CPU. The new “Kaby Lake” Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v6 processors are available for all RECT 64-series servers.

Greater computing performance combined with lower power consumption – typical of the latest developments in the Intel processor families. And this is true of the new “Kaby Lake Xeon” processors, which deliver 200 MHz higher clock speeds while generating almost 8 watts less in terms of TDP. In other words, significantly improved energy efficiency coupled with a general increase in performance. What is more, DDR4 memory at 2400 MHz (PC4-19200) is also now supported, which translates into even greater performance gains.

The new Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v6 CPUs are available for all existing 64-series servers in the RECT™ Shop as the new “Kaby Lakes” still use the established 1151 CPU socket and the Intel® C232 chipset featured in the RECT™ 64-series. This combines excellent expansion options and I/O features (PCI Express® 3.0 with up to 8 lanes, 6x S-ATA 6 Gb/s with RAID support, USB 3.0 etc.) with innovative technology (Intel® “VT-d” Directed I/O Virtualization Technology, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology for companies, Trusted Execution Technology).
The RECT™ 64-series servers with new processors and faster memory have thus been given a boost in terms of computing performance with slightly lower power consumption.

All RECT® 64-series systems can be upgraded
The “Kaby Lake” performance boost can be extended to existing RECT™ 64-series systems. A processor replacement and a BIOS update are all that’s needed. But a word of caution: do not attempt to update the BIOS without proper instruction and advice from our RECT™ professionals. Talk to your personal customer adviser about any forthcoming upgrade.

Click here to find out more about the new systems with Kaby Lake processors. Or speak with our advisers. They’ll be happy to show you the new enhanced models from the RECT™ 64-series.

Here comes the upgrade to our RECT™ models of the series „85“: With new Intel® Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors and faster DDR4 memory, the performance curve continues to turn upwards without raising the price level.

Increased flexibility and an ever improving level of automation: The extended RECT™ 85 series features significant gains in performance and energy efficience, and also when it comes to virtualization and security.

Intel® Broadwell-EP Processors for Dual-Socket-Systems
A serious performance boost for the well-established RECT™ dual-socket platform is marked by the fourth generation of Core-based server CPUs by Intel. Retaining the LGA2011-3 socket, the benchmarks experience an average progression of 23 to 27 percent. The increased number of processor cores is a factor to be stated at this point. Starting with the Xeon E5-2609 v4, the new models usually offer two or four additional cores compared to their respective predecessors from the third generation.

Beyond that, Intel® has made improvements with the architecture. This results in noticeable enhancements concerning various fields. These enhancements include bigger translation lookaside buffers (TLB) and more registers for out-of-order execution, an optimized branch predictor to cut down on unnecessary memory operations, and lesser latencies during integer division. Especially scalar multiplication experiences a significant gain, as it will be completed within one micro-operation now (previously: two micro-operations). This is crucial not only for cryptographic algorithms, where former benchmarks can be beaten by 70 percent. This micro-operational speed-up subsequently boosts the instructions per clock (IPC), granting a higher clock rate during single-threaded operations.

Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) is a key feature set to enhance the capabilities of orchestration and virtualization management. The last-level-cache (LLC) is being partitioned, and the parts are given varying priorities to max out the transfer rate. New hardware power states allow for the operating system to make quicker decisions for the right P-state (frequency and voltage).

When it comes to AVX, the new processors offer another benefit we want to mention. They underclock only the respective core operating an AVX instruction while their predecessors were designed to underclock themselves completely. For instance, the Xeon E5-2699 v4 has 18 turbo steps at ist disposal in AVX mode, enabling it to double the base frequency of 1.8 GHz in each of its cores separately.

Transactional Memory (TSX) is active in all Broadwell-EP processors. This technology leads to drastic performance gains especially in databases.

Faster DDR4 Memory
In conjunction with the new processors, the enhanced RECT servers and workstations of the 85 series now offer a higher memory data rate. All systems can be equipped with DDR4-2400 modules (by both Samsung and Kingston, depending on the chosen configuration). When each of the four memory channels is provided with modules, the memory speed can be maxed out.


Overview of the models available in the RECT™ Shop

Processor	Cores / Threads	Speed (GHz)	TurboBoost (GHz)	AVX Speed (GHz)	L3 -Cache (MB)	thP (Watts)	QPI (GByte/s)	DDR4 (GT/s)
Base models for 2Sockets
Xeon E5-2699 v4	22 / 44	2.2	3.6	1.8	55	145	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2698 v4	20 / 40	2.2	3.6	1.8	50	135	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2697A v4	16 / 32	2.6	3.6	2.2	40	145	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2697 v4	18 / 36	2.3	3.6	1.8	45	145	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2695 v4	18 / 36	2.1	3.3	1.7	45	120	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2690 v4	14 / 28	2.6	3.5	2.1	35	135	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2683 v4	16 / 32	2.1	3.0	1.7	40	120	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2680 v4	14 / 28	2.4	3.3	1.9	35	120	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2660 v4	14 / 28	2.0	3.2	1.7	35	105	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2650 v4	12 / 24	2.2	2.9	1.7	30	105	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2640 v4	10 / 20	2.4	3.4	1.8	25	90	8	2133
Xeon E5-2630 v4	10 / 20	2.2	3.1	1.8	25	85	8	2133
Xeon E5-2620 v4	8 / 16	2.1	3.0	1.8	20	85	8	2133
Xeon E5-2609 v4	8 / 8	1.7	-	1.7	20	85	6.4	1866
Xeon E5-2603 v4	6 / 6	1.7	-	1.7	15	85	6.4	1866
Models with optimized stepping
Xeon E5-2667 v4	8 / 16	3.2	3.6	2.6	25	135	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2643 v4	6 / 12	3.4	3.7	2.8	20	135	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2637 v4	4 / 8	3.5	3.7	3.2	15	135	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2623 v4	4 / 8	2.6	3.2	2.2	10	85	8	2133
Energy-efficient models
Xeon E5-2650L v4	14 / 28	1.7	2.5	1.2	35	65	9.6	2400
Xeon E5-2630L v4	10 / 20	1.8	2.9	1.3	25	55	8	2133
Optimized for 2Socket-Workstations
Xeon E5-2687W v4	12 / 24	3.0	3.5	2.6	30	160	9.6	2400

An already existing RECT™ system of the 85 series with E5-v3 processors can be easily equipped with E5-v4. To make Broadwell-EP processors work in a machine previously operated with Haswell-EP processors, a necessary BIOS update can be applied in no time. Please talk to your personal RECT™ customer adviser prior to the upgrade.

Click here for the new systems with Broadwell-EP processors. Or get in contact with us by phone or mail. We’re looking forward to introducing our enhanced models of the RECT™ 85 series to you!

…now in the RECT Shop.
After gradually raising the maximum capacity per drive from 4 TB to 6 TB and then 8 TB, HGST has now introduced the first hard drive with 10 TB in the enterprise segment. Designed for 24/7 operation with 2.5 million hours MTBF, the He10 ranks the highest when it comes to reliability. The construction of the drive is based on its predecessors with 8 TB capacity, making it directly serviceable for most business applications and environments. The time-tested HelioSeal® technology of the third generation hermetically seals the HDD and replaces the air inside with helium. The less-dense atmosphere allows for an increased efficiency and therefore helps to shape IT both scalable and sustainable.

The new HGST Ultrastar® He10 drives with 7,200 RPM and 256 MB of cache are available in S-ATA (6 Gb/s) and SAS (12 Gb/s). In the RECT™ Shop you can now find them as options for all Servers, Storages and Workstations.

More data security in the case of hard drive failures. With the new RECT Smart Warranty .HDD we now offer a brand-new component for the protection of your sensitive data. You can simply decide yourself how you want to dispose of a faulty hard drive. While you keep the faulty storage medium, we will still take the necessary replacement to you. That way you can always keep your sensitive data under your own control.

This service is available as an option for almost all of our RECT systems in the RECT shop. For individual configurations do not hesitate to talk to your personal contact about the possibilities you have for the RECT Smart Warranty .HDD Service.

The Intel® Romley-EP platform introduces both the Intel® C602 chipset and a whole new processor family, the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 series. This launch improves computing power at all points, due to its undeniably strong features: just think of two sockets, each equipped with 8 cores, 16 threads, 20 MB L3 cache plus Turbo Boost at up to 3.8 GHz.

Our new RECT 2Sockets (82-series) aim to max these features out and provide you with the wide range of all the new peak performances the Intel® Romley-EP platform has to offer. All in line with „Intelligent Power“, IT performance is being boosted at a high degree of energy efficiency: powerful intelligent.

Just have a look at the new RECT servers and workstations. Our sales consultants are eager to present you with the new 82-series.