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Hewlett Packard Enterprise says its ProLiant DL385 Gen10 (News - Alert) server delivers comparable performance per virtual machine as a traditional server, but at half the cost.

This server employs an AMD (News - Alert) Secure Processor. And the related AMD EPYC System on a Chip allows for greater utilization and return on investment.

It also helps support the ProLiant DL385 Gen10 server’s security. This offering features HPE Silicon Root of Trust. That validates the HPE firmware before the server can boot. The solution also offers secure encrypted memory and secure encrypted virtualization.

“The AMD EPYC SoC delivers a better balance of cores, memory, and I/O to deliver optimal performance based upon today’s workloads,” said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager of the enterprise business unit at Advanced Micro Devices (News - Alert). “EPYC allows the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 to support more virtual machines per server, process more data in parallel, access more local storage, while providing unprecedented security.”

There’s growing demand for such solutions, HPE notes, as 41 percent of new server shipments are expected to be virtualized in 2020. That’s up from 33 percent in 2015, it notes.

One of the key benefits of virtualized servers is the savings. Enterprises report they can realize 20 percent savings through the adoption of virtualization.

“HPE offers the HPE ProLiant DL385 with flexible IT consumption models and special financial programs,” the company adds. “HPE Flexible Capacity enables customers to pay for IT as it is consumed, managing unpredictable demands and raising utilization levels. Ninety-day deferred payments, zero percent financing, and trade-in programs make the HPE ProLiant DL385 even more affordable.”

Speaking of servers, new data from IHS (News - Alert) Markit suggests that Open Compute Servers will make up 7 percent of servers shipped in 2021.

“The ecosystem has been established by the vendors who decided to offer OCP (News - Alert)-compliant (accepted and inspired) servers, reducing risk for tier 2 CSPs to follow. The next wave of OCP adoption will be telcos for network function virtualization,” said Cliff Grossner at IHS Markit.

“Overall market dynamics to watch moving forward,” he added, “include new software technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, which will drive new features in CPU silicon and give rise to a market for specialized processors capable of high degrees of parallelism. This will be fertile ground for innovation enabled by OCP designs.”