PRIMERGY BX600 Advanced Blade EcoSystem increases efficiency, reduces complexity
By integrating the new PRIMERGY® BX600 Advanced Blade EcoSystem and our IT infrastructure solutions Fujitsu paves the way to a dynamic data center. A broad range of application areas, from Web and mail servers via terminal server farms up to large and high performance database and application server configurations are optimal fields for the Advanced Blade EcoSystem solution.
The PRIMERGY BX600 delivers several benefits to ensure a more efficient, cost-effective operation:
- Efficiency enhancement resulting from complexity reduction and cost savings through infrastructure consolidation and integration.
- Maximum investment protection is guaranteed due to the design continuity of our Advance Blade Ecosystem, ensuring long-term usability of newly developed components within the future-oriented BX600 chassis.
- Agility improvements due to faster reaction to administrative needs resulting from comprehensive system management, simplified usability with the PRIMERGY ServerView suite, and easy integration into third party Enterprise Management Systems.
- Business continuity due to three main characteristics of the PRIMERGY BX600: the design for highest reliability, an Automated Service Level Management through dynamic load handling with our Adaptive Services Control Center (ASCC), and the opportunity to leverage the large Eco System by use of proven solutions and partners.
Whether it’s FlexFrame™ for mySAP™ or FlexFrame™ for Oracle, PRIMERGY BX600 is available in these solutions together with our recommended portfolio of professional service offerings to provide you with the best custom-tailored environment. To read more about the PRIMERGY BX600 Advanced Blade EcoSystem, and to watch a 3D animated demo of the new system, go to this link.
PRIMERGY positioned as leader in several Magic Quadrant reports
On January 7th, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced that its PRIMERGY® industry-standard x86 servers have been positioned in several Leaders Quadrants of recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant server reports. The Fujitsu PRIMERGY rack, tower and blade servers continue to make gains in the Application, Web, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Infrastructure server categories. The PRIMERGY servers offer industry-leading design and performance and are well-positioned for the growing Windows and Linux-based application markets.
According to Gartner, “Leaders” are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. “We believe our position in the Leaders quadrants of these Gartner Magic Quadrant server reports is a direct reflection of the excellent overall design and reliability of our PRIMERGY servers,” said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. “Our customers continue to confirm that the PRIMERGY server line offers excellent performance for the dollar, and the dedicated attention of Fujitsu Customer Service results in outstanding value and lower total cost of ownership playing a key role in the Fujitsu TRIOLE® strategy to optimize the IT infrastructure.”
If you are interested in reading about the complete line of PRIMERGY tower, rack, and blade servers, be sure to visit the PRIMERGY web pages here.
Microsoft Systems Architecture using PRIMERGY helps cut costs and risks
The Microsoft® Systems Architecture Enterprise Data Center (MSA EDC) is designed to help you reduce deployment costs by employing best practices. The flexible modular concept of MSA enables the deployment of IT infrastructures that satisfy all scalability, Availability, and security requirements. This includes standardized documentation covering every step of a project, including the operational concept.
For MSA certification the complete PRIMERGY industry-standard server hardware is tested by Fujitsu and certified by Microsoft. A complete network test is performed, in which the entire data center is qualified. Since server systems are in the course of time withdrawn and replaced by new models, such a certification measure would quickly become outdated. By defining “server classes”, Microsoft has developed a method that renders it unnecessary for a complete recertification to be performed when a product model is changed.
For an abundance of information about PRIMERGY servers and their role in MSA, go to this link.
PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST analyze structures of outer space
Fujitsu Limited recently announced that it has won an order from the Kamioka Observatory of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo to supply a new data analysis system that analyzes the structure of outer space by utilizing a cosmic-particle observation detector known as Super-Kamiokande.
The new system will accumulate and analyze data regarding neutrinos, based on neutrino observation data from Super-Kamiokande. The IT infrastructure consists mainly of the following: a performance computing cluster consisting of 270x PRIMERGY® BX620 S3 blade servers (540 processors, 1080 cores), three PRIMEQUEST™ 520 mission-critical IA servers, an ETERNUS™ storage system, and Parallelnavi SRFS for Linux version 1.0. To read the entire press release, go here.
FlexFrame: Virtualization using mySAP Business Suite
With FlexFrame™ for mySAP™ Business Suite, Fujitsu introduced an IT infrastructure solution that makes significant TCO savings possible while operating mySAP environments. The FlexFrame Solution is based on a clear division of the IT infrastructure for mySAP solutions comprised of well-defined building blocks: computing, control, network, and storage.
Your SAP® system environment is complex and changing almost daily due to the rapidly growing demands of your business. Your business also demands 24x7 availability. What's needed is an IT infrastructure that adapts to your unique requirements, securing your investments into the future.
Utilizing four well-defined building blocks, the essential characteristics of FlexFrame are:
- A central operating system for all SAP servers (single OS image)
- Virtual SAP services (Database, Central Instance, etc.), allowing them to be switched back and forth dynamically between servers
- Shared Network Attached Storage
- Integrated high availability and management functions
To learn how FlexFrame for mySAP can help you reduce your TCO, go to the FlexFrame link.
New white paper available on “Creating a Shared-Services Infrastructure for BPM & SOA”
A white paper was recently published by Keith Swenson (Vice President of Research and Development and Amita Abraham (Senior Product Marketing Manager) of Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. The paper outlines eight “best practices” for moving to a shared-services infrastructure. As noted in the paper:
“Shared-services is a form of ‘internal outsourcing’ that allows enterprises to achieve considerable cost benefits by utilizing a single group within the organization to create and manage specific IT services.
“The main benefits of shared-services are cost savings and rapid deployment of new applications by leveraging access to centralized expertise and infrastructure.
“Despite these benefits, many companies have been slow to move toward a shared-services infrastructure because they are confused about how to do so. This article examines what a shared-services infrastructure is, who should consider evolving to one, and best-practices for launching such an initiative.”
To read the entire paper and to learn the important best-practices, please visit this link.
TRIOLE and ETERNUS VS900 Virtualization Switch alleviates data storage management headaches
Data storage systems are constantly becoming larger and more complicated. As a result, storage management has become a burden on system administrators and has created an urgent need for simplification.
The Fujitsu TRIOLE™ system infrastructure vision promotes system virtualization, automation and integration as a means to achieving such business infrastructure improvements. Servers, networks and storage are virtualized and autonomously managed using system management software centered on the Fujitsu Systemwalker Resource Coordinator. This integration of product and function not only reduces the burden on administrators but also realizes a high level of systems management. The ETERNUS VS900 Model 200 (VS900) virtualization switch provides virtualization functions for such storage domains.
Storage virtualization using VS900 enables the flexible assignment of storage space, as required, for the execution of applications and middleware. For instance, VS900 makes it possible to collect all unused disk space and build it into a large virtual disk. This ensures that storage is utilized more efficiently. When, due to increases in stored data, the virtual disk becomes ‘full’ it is easy to enlarge the available space as it has no “physical” limit.
To read the entire white paper on this important topic, go to the ETERNUS white paper page here. There you’ll also find white papers on the Fujitsu role in the Microsoft® SQL Server™ Storage Solution Review Program (also known as the “Always On” program) and the ETERNUS solution.