Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) – cards that combine networking hardware with enough compute and storage to run chores like encryption and free up CPU cores for more productive uses.
The on-prem hardware holdout last week annnounced “Customer Kits” that enable installation of the accelerators in its 15th-generation PowerEdge servers – kit launched in 2021. Dell’s most recent servers are 16th-gen and…