Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
With a focus on PRIMEQUEST servers…
This month’s “Bridging the Gap” focuses primarily on the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST server line. We discuss a couple of case studies in which PRIMEQUEST solutions have been used to significantly reduce costs while increasing efficiency. We also present details about the thirty-three PRIMEQUEST 580 servers that are being used to create an extraordinarily powerful new supercomputer, [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
PRIMEQUEST servers prove hugely effective in reducing TCO
Over the past few years, Fujitsu Limited has implemented a program that substantially reduced the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the company’s mission-critical indirect purchasing systems. By consolidating several legacy applications onto PRIMEQUEST servers running the Linux operating system, Fujitsu was able to reduce its TCO by 53.6 percent. The company realized savings across [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Oracle Database 10g breaks record using PRIMEQUEST 540 server
On February 14, Oracle Corporation announced that it had achieved a TPC-C performance benchmark record result for the Itanium platform using Oracle(R) Database 10g on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST(r) 540 server and the Linux operating system. This latest benchmark also signified world-class achievement among 16-processor Linux systems. Running on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 servers with 16 Intel Itanium(r) [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Major hospital adopts PRIMEQUEST for integrated information system
Earlier this month, Fujitsu Limited announced that Nagoya University Hospital in Japan has deployed Fujitsu’s PRIMEQUEST mission-critical IA server for its new integrated hospital information system. The system is a complete platform for the entire hospital services, including the electronic medical record system and other systems such as examination systems in each department. The new [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Fujitsu first to offer solid state drives in pen-enabled notebooks
On March 19, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation introduced the first pen-enabled notebooks with solid state drives (SSDs). The LifeBook® P1610 and LifeBook B6210 ultra-portables will offer an option for an SSD, an advanced NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives. The rugged-enhanced notebooks, designed for optimal portability and data protection, are ideal for medium-sized [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Kyushu University supercomputer to incorporate 33 PRIMEQUEST 580 servers
On March 14, Fujitsu Limited announced that it had received an order for a supercomputer system from the Computing and Communications Center at Kyushu University in Japan. The center is one of seven national supercomputer centers in a consortium of universities. The Kyushu supercomputer will be the most powerful in the consortium.
The Computing and Communications [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Fujitsu joins the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center
Located on the Microsoft Redmond, WA campus, the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) is a state-of-the-art IT engagement lab designed to demonstrate real customer solutions running at scale, large scale, via the PRIMEQUEST Itanium Server line. The facilities and services are structured to engage the enterprise level customer through executive briefings, technology demonstrations, architectural design [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Fujitsu and Microsoft present webcast on legacy modernization
On March 28, a webcast featuring Ron Langer, Vice President of Legacy Modernization for Fujitsu, and Michael Dee Hester, Mainframe Modernization Program Manager for Microsoft was broadcast on SearchCIO.com. For the next 12 weeks you will be able to view this webcast to find out how to reuse valuable mainframe application assets while leveraging the [...]