{"id":3971,"date":"2019-09-30T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:57:16","slug":"intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: Intrepid Modular Server Systems with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pioneer in system integration since 1999, we\u2019ve seen our share of server hardware trends.\u00a0 From the adoption of hardware RAID and SATA drives in the early 2000\u2019s, to the explosion of server virtualization in the mid-2000\u2019s, on through the adoption of SSDs in the 2010\u2019s in the data center, we\u2019ve stayed at the pulse of IT needs by delivering the right server hardware at the right time, to keep businesses moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Although cloud computing has shifted many traditional workloads off-premise via public clouds, the need for on-premise, high-performance compute solutions has never been higher, shifted mainly by the creation of new opportunities from the next revolution of business: <strong>the digital and data services economy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/#Compute_Follows_New_Data-Driven_Economies\" >Compute Follows New Data-Driven Economies<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/#Data_Disruption_has_become_the_%E2%80%98New_Normal\" >Data Disruption has become the &#8216;New Normal&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/#Advanced_Hardware_Needed_for_Next-Gen_Compute_Needs\" >Advanced Hardware Needed for Next-Gen Compute Needs<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/#We_Redesigned_Our_Intel_Server_Systems\" >We Redesigned Our Intel Server Systems<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/intrepid-modular-intel-xeon-processors\/#Introducing_Intrepid_Modular_Intel_Servers\" >Introducing: Intrepid Modular Intel Servers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Compute_Follows_New_Data-Driven_Economies\"><\/span><strong>Compute Follows New Data-Driven Economies<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the heart of the current IT transformation is the process, movement, and storage of data. As traditional products and services merge with new data-driven digital economy, technology departments will rely heavily on the support of more connected users accessing real-time data across data centers, private clouds and hybrid cloud (or multi-cloud) architecture.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Data_Disruption_has_become_the_%E2%80%98New_Normal\"><\/span><strong>Data Disruption has become the &#8216;New Normal&#8217;<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As the volume and velocity of data increases, so too does the inefficiency to stream all this information to a private cloud, hybrid cloud or data center for processing.\u00a0As data continues to grow, technology departments must shift to support new strategies, which means new IT investments in hardware needs to add value.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advanced_Hardware_Needed_for_Next-Gen_Compute_Needs\"><\/span><strong>Advanced Hardware Needed for Next-Gen Compute Needs<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Digitally-transformed organizations that combine business outcomes with digital strategies are winning.\u00a0 To successfully compete, organizations need to upgrade their outdated IT infrastructure from 2017 (or earlier) that was originally-designed to support cloud computing initiatives.\u00a0 To address new requirements driven by data demands of today\u2019s data center or private clouds, IT managers need scalable computing and flexible hardware configurations across networking and data-driven applications.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"We_Redesigned_Our_Intel_Server_Systems\"><\/span><strong>We Redesigned Our Intel Server Systems<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With this data-driven transformation touching every part IT\u2019s infrastructure, the current state of the server hardware cycle is driving the adoption of new technologies \u2013 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/boost-intel-xeon-performance-with-2nd-generation-processors\/\">Intel\u00ae\u00a0Xeon\u00ae Scalable Processors<\/a>, NVMe drives and software-defined storage \u2013 that will help power the most demanding workloads in the new digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>With its high compute expense, it doesn&#8217;t make sense for many businesses to operate these workloads in public cloud environments.\u00a0On-premise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/products\/rackmount-servers-intel-amd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rackmount servers<\/a> that move toward data forward by processing high amounts of data will help transform legacy infrastructures into cost-efficient data centers.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introducing_Intrepid_Modular_Intel_Servers\"><\/span><strong>Introducing: Intrepid Modular Intel Servers<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>At Pogo, we\u2019ve stayed fluent to these evolving IT trends, and the solution is advanced yet flexible server hardware.\u00a0 As a response, we\u2019ve engineered a modern server systems with next-gen hardware designed to meet the agility, flexibility and value to better address today\u2019s on-premises workloads.<\/p>\n<p>The Intrepid product line represents our 3<sup>rd<\/sup> major revision to our Intel technology-based servers.\u00a0 The Pogo Linux Intrepid product line of modern rackmount server systems are designed to meet agility, flexibility and value needs of today\u2019s on-premise and data center workloads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Agile Server Computing<\/strong> &#8211; Featuring deep-integration with dual 2nd Gen Intel Xeon processors, Intrepid servers enables forward-compatibility to a full-range of Intel server technologies as compute needs grow, including Intel\u00ae Speed Select and Intel\u00ae Optane&#x2122; DC Persistent Memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Flexible Hardware Configurations<\/strong> &#8211; The Intrepid family\u2019s flexible hardware configuration options feature a modular and highly-dense 1U or 2U server design with the ability to expand from 12 to 24 drive bays.\u00a0As storage performance needs grow, users have the ability to install 2.5\u201d or 3.5\u201d SSD hard drives or NVMe PCIe expansion cards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Better IT Value<\/strong> &#8211; Realize exceptional IT value with the ability to address modern data-centric workloads and the ability to upgrade technology and hardware needs to meet future IT needs in a single Intrepid server system.<\/p>\n<p>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/5-reasons-rack-mount-server-refresh-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your next server refresh<\/a> last longer with servers that can be modified, as workloads dictate.\u00a0All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/products\/intel-servers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intrepid Intel server systems<\/a> include pre-installed commercial or free Linux distribution operating systems and come with a three-year warranty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pioneer in system integration since 1999, we\u2019ve seen our share of server hardware trends.\u00a0 From the adoption of hardware RAID and SATA drives in the early 2000\u2019s, to the explosion of server virtualization in the mid-2000\u2019s, on through the adoption of SSDs in the 2010\u2019s in the data center, we\u2019ve stayed at the pulse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248,241,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intel-servers","category-nvme","category-rackmount-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}