Dell has released the PowerEdgeTM M-Series blade solution. As mentioned in the official press release, The M-Series provides lead-free configurations.

"Blade offerings have been long on promises and short on helping customers address the growing costs and complexity in their data centers," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Business Product Group. "The PowerEdge M-Series delivers on those promises with unmatched energy efficiency, flexibility, performance and manageability. It enables customers to achieve the compute performance they need while lowering their overall power consumption and reducing data center complexity and server sprawl."

The PowerEdge M1000e, a 10U-sized enclosure, supports 16 blade servers. It is optimised for Dell's PowerEdge M600 and M605 blade servers and supports up to two quad-core Intel Xeon and quad-core AMD OpteronTM processors, respectively.

Dell’s PowerEdge M1000e features include an upgradeable Ethernet blade switch, three Cisco Ethernet switch options, two Brocade 4Gb Fibre Channel connectivity options, FC4 Host Bus Adaptors from QLogic and Emulex, as well as an Infiniband mezzanine card from Mellanox and Fibre Channel and Ethernet Pass.