Six cores at up to 2.8GHz. 32 nanometer manufacturing. 12MB of cache. 1,333MHz memory bus. Enabled with turbo- and hyper-threading. If I would have seen those specs five years ago, I’d probably put it in the Loch Ness Monster file … It would have been something that I wanted but didn’t expect to ever see. As of today, we have Nessie’s technological equivalent in our data centers and available for customers to order.

Housed in a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and equipped with the new Westmere microarchitecture processor, our new Xeon 5650 server is the most powerful server in our fleet. If the powerhouse performance wasn’t enough for you, the X5600 series processors also deliver two new security features – Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel AES-NI) and Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT). These new technologies enable faster encryption and decryption performance for more secure transactions and virtualized environments.

You require performance, security and server density, and the new Intel processor delivers across the board. This high-performance server offers hardware acceleration for virtualization and cloud instances, and improved security. It also improves the economics of multi-tenant environments like cloud, virtualization and Web hosting.

Does all this tech talk have you salivating for one? Here’s your chance. The new server is available today exclusively on The Planet’s Virtual Rack platform, which allows customers to effortlessly scale computing capacity within their hosting environment without long-term commitments. Additionally, if you decide to make a leap to the new platform, you’ll get The Planet’s new server bundle, including Symantec Endpoint Protection, 10GB of Storage Cloud and Parallels Small Business Panel.

-Todd