The Texas-based computer maker, Dell, unveiled today its new series of blade servers, called PowerEdge M.

According to the company, the PowerEdge M-Series, which is built on  Dell’s Energy Smart technologies consumes up to 19 percent less power than the HP BladeSystem c-Class1 and 12 percent less energy than IBM BladeCenter H.

Also, Dell said it new family of servers achieves up to 25 percent better performance per watt than the HP BladeSystem c-Class1.

The new PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure supports 16 blade servers and has a starting price of $5,999.

Dell’s PowerEdge M600 and M605 blade servers supports up to two quad-core Intel Xeon and quad-core AMD Opteron processors, respectively. The M600 and M605 blade servers are 60 percent more dense than standard 1U servers and they had a starting price at $1,849.

The M1000E enclosure supports a range of network connectivity options including an upgradeable Ethernet blade switch, the Layer 3 Dell PowerConnect M6220, with four 1Gb ports and optional upgradeable ports for stacking or 10Gb, three Cisco Ethernet switch options, two Brocade 4Gb Fibre Channel connectivity options and FC4 Host Bus Adaptors from QLogic and Emulex,

Dell’s PowerEdge M-Series include  OpenManage systems management suite that simplifies IT with easy-to-use yet powerful management tools that help reduce the cost and complexity of managing computing resources.

“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,” he added.