The three Dell EMC hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) systems — VxRail, PowerFlex and Azure Stack HCI — have been upgraded to use the latest-generation PowerEdge servers with Gen-3 Xeon CPUs. Dell says they have up to 36 per cent more cores than the previous generation, 20 per cent more memory bandwidth with Intel Optane Memory, and significant cost savings versus traditional DRAM. Dell says lifecycle management capabilities are built directly in the HCI software behind VxRail (VxRail HCI Systems Software), PowerFlex (PowerFlex Manager) and Azure Stack HCI (OpenMange Integration with Windows Admin Center). The newest release of VxRail HCI Systems Software has its LCM capabilities aligned with larger VMware ecosystem updates like NXT and Tanzu in a single upgrade cycle.