New Fujitsu designs combining fun, fashion, form, and function are spotlighted at CES 2009
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas the week of January 5, Fujitsu once again showcased its versatility in PC design. New notebooks on display included the 1.32-pound limited-edition tokidoki®-branded LifeBook U820 convertible mini notebook with integrated Garmin Mobile® GPS navigation that combines computing power with a fun fashion statement. The award-winning ultra-portable LifeBook P8020 notebook is now WiMAX-enabled for consumers and mobile professionals on the move. Senior citizens will appreciate the easy-to-use Japanese Raku-Raku PC, designed to make computing easier for seniors with little prior computing experience. Also shown was our novel approach to cooling notebooks with the LifeBook N7010 notebook, the industry's first water-cooled portable.
For a lot more information on these exciting new notebooks, be sure to check out the related Fujitsu press release.
Fujitsu positioned as “Champion” in BPMS Software Market Update Report
On January 21, 2009, Fujitsu announced that it had been positioned as a "Champion" in a January BPMS Market Update report published by Bloor Research. According to the report "Champions" offer "well-grounded tools with good support for both human and systems oriented processes."
In a recent article based on the research, Analyst Simon Holloway noted, "Fujitsu Interstage® Business Process Manager is, in Bloor's view, one of the best BPMS products on the market at present. Much thought and effort has gone into producing a well-rounded product which not only supports the key components of BPMS v1 (development environment, process and rules run-time engines, integration capabilities, form and report design, and Analytics), but also some of the key BPMS v2 capabilities including SaaS and knowledge intensive processes support."
Holloway cited the Fujitsu Automated Business Process Discovery & Visualization Service as one of the "big differentiators of the Fujitsu approach." Launched in April, the service is designed to address the biggest challenges faced by companies embarking on a process improvement and governance initiative today -- the exposure to compliance failure, fraud, and other legal and efficiency issues lying hidden in their operational workflows. The offering eliminates months of time and labor-intensive exploration and lets organizations immediately discover current process quickly -- information that often remains completely invisible. According to Holloway, "It is a tool I wished I had had when I was a practicing process analyst -- it is that good!"
To download a copy of the entire Bloor Report, go to this link and click the [Download Report] button.
ETERNUS8000 and ETERNUS4000 storage systems deliver increased bandwidth and performance
On January 12, Fujitsu announced the availability of the new Fujitsu ETERNUS®8000 and ETERNUS4000 storage systems. The new models deliver up to twice the performance of previous models, and offer flexible drive configurations that allow both mid-sized and enterprise customers to control performance and cost.
The new storage systems were designed with intelligent cache management and quad-core processors. The new design gives enterprise and mid-sized customers the choice to mix 8 Gb Fibre Channel or iSCSI host channels in the same machine to maximize server connectivity. They also offer advanced data security and integrity features, including LUN-level, disk-data encryption combined with WAN optimization for maximum protection of sensitive information.
To learn more about the new ETERNUS8000 and ETERNUS4000 storage systems, go to the Fujitsu website at this link.
New Stylistic ST6012 Tablet PC continues long Fujitsu pen computing history
On December 16, Fujitsu unveiled its new Stylistic ST6012 slate tablet PC featuring the first embedded, biometric pre-boot authentication available on a slate, improved processor performance, and a new semi-rugged sleek exterior. At less than one-inch thick with a 12.1-inch, anti-glare display, the comfortable-to-carry slate is ideal for on-your-feet computing markets including insurance, education, and healthcare, as well as retail/mobile sales.
With its multifunction pen and indoor/outdoor display, the Stylistic ST6012 slate works like pen and paper -- only better -- offering the ability to write or sketch on the display, fill out digital forms, enter data and take orders. Plus, an optional rear mounted webcam captures images essential for reports such as insurance claims. When customers need to acknowledge receipt or sign contracts, the Stylistic ST6012 tablet PC delivers with digital signature capture using automatic handwriting recognition and special software.
Fujitsu has over 17 years of experience in developing tablet PCs, and is proud of the many industry first for which it is responsible. To read more about the new Stylistic ST6012 tablet, be sure to visit the Fujitsu website.
Fujitsu in Leaders Quadrants of Application Infrastructure Software research reports
Fujitsu was positioned in the leaders quadrant in two recent Gartner Magic Quadrant reports: “Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects” and “Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects”.
Additionally, Fujitsu reported that it continues to see increasing demand for its Interstage Suite, one of the world's broadest lines of application infrastructure software products. In FY 2007, sales of the Fujitsu Interstage Suite grew by a combined 92 percent in the North American and European markets. Fujitsu attributes the growth to customers and partners selecting Interstage Suite products as the most suitable solutions for designing, deploying and managing their applications with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach.
For more details about the significance of the Magic Quadrant positioning, read the entire press release.
Hospice of Michigan uses Fujitsu equipment to create robust infrastructure
Hospice of Michigan (HOM), the second-largest nonprofit hospice in the country, provides palliative care – comfort measures and pain control – for people with terminal illnesses. The goal is to help each person live as fully as possible and to help the family and loved ones participate in the person’s care. HOM serves nearly 1,000 patients every day in 56 counties throughout Michigan.
With five main sites, a headquarters, and nine hub sites for weekly patient discussion meetings, the organization’s existing IT infrastructure was dated, and its siloed storage systems were reaching capacity. Performance, speed and reliability were also issues. “We had lots of hardware that needed to work together in a complex network infrastructure – otherwise the quality of care would be at risk, as would patient confidentiality,” said John Pryor, corporate director of information systems at HOM. “But we faced some serious challenges with the old environment. Individual servers had been bought to support specific applications, resulting in a lot of random pieces, and storage was added by attaching SCSI disk arrays to the servers, creating information silos that were difficult to access. We also relied on very expensive dedicated T1 lines, but our servers lacked the performance and memory to take advantage of the bandwidth.” In 2007, just as the technology need was growing critical, HOM learned that $13 million in Fujitsu products and services were being made available as part of a $30 million independently managed technology grant to the U.S. hospice industry.
“The grant was a godsend for us, allowing us to create the technology platform we needed,” said Pryor. “We were still using the Fujitsu LifeBook T3010 Tablet PCs we’d purchased in 2003, and we’d loved the experience of working with Fujitsu. Everyone was helpful and concerned about meeting our needs. We felt it was a true win-win partnership, not just folks trying to hawk tin. We were very excited to standardize our new infrastructure on Fujitsu.”
To read more about the Hospice of Michigan success story, click on the link here.
Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600 rated as the fastest web server in the world
Benchmark test results recently showed that the PRIMERGY RX600 rack server is the best-performing web server in the world.
Benchmark testing was completed with the new Intel® Dunnington multi-core processor family, introduced in the fall. This new SPEC®web2005 benchmark result was produced on a PRIMERGY RX600 S4 data center-class rack server, a system designed to offer robustness and redundancy features in a space-optimized 4U rack form factor.
The industry standard SPECweb2005 benchmark was designed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The SPECweb2005 test measures system performance as a web server, handling requests for static and dynamic page requests, and simulates three different workload scenarios. Under official test lab conditions, the world record-setting PRIMERGY RX600 S4 returned a SPECweb2005 score of 47,504.
In retaking the lead, Fujitsu Computer Systems has demonstrated the outstanding performance found in the PRIMERGY line of products – a complete family of rack, tower, and blade servers. The newest results, recorded last month at the Fujitsu Siemens Computers benchmarking laboratories in Paderborn, Germany, represent the latest top score in a closely-contested category.
Full details of the test results will be available on the SPEC website.