Fujitsu America attends Federal Office Systems Exposition
Over 400 companies packed the hall at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on March 23-25 to demonstrate their products and services at the annual Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE). FOSE is the #1 technology event for government in the nation for more than three decades. This event is known for bringing together the tools, methods and systems to maintain, protect and modernize the nation’s IT infrastructure.
At the expo, Fujitsu America Inc., promoted its expanded government market portfolio which offers a broader set of capabilities – including infrastructure and application IT services – to help clients in North America reduce operating costs and improve operational efficiencies. As the challenges facing the government IT community continue to grow, the rapid pace of change brought on by new technologies and changing expectations present tremendous opportunities with the right solutions.
Left to right:
Chris Braun .Account Executive
Chris Parker - Business Development Manager
Paul Gipko - Client Executive
Peter Bernier - Channel Development Manager
Mike Wright - Systems Engineer
Charlie Hall - Systems Engineer
Deb Kaplan - Client Executive
Christina Francisco - Marcom Specialist
“Fujitsu America has made a substantial investment in the success of its public sector initiatives, particularly in government, as evidenced by a 22 percent compound annual growth rate over the last five years,” said Bob Farrow, vice president public sector, Fujitsu America. “I am pleased to take the lead as Fujitsu expands its government solutions to include a full spectrum of hardware, software and IT infrastructure and security services, as well as integration solutions with our alliance partners such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.”
Fujitsu demonstrated how clients such as the Washington State Department of Licensing, the Government of New Brunswick, and Law Enforcement of Davidson County, Tenn., are leveraging Fujitsu LifeBook(R) tablet PCs, software, hardware and services for IT application modernization, infrastructure build-outs and improved IT security. Based on the popularity of Fujitsu government solutions, the company has increased public sector revenue by 22 percent compound annual growth for the last four years.
At the conclusion of the event, the Fujitsu team learned they won a “Best of FOSE” award for the PRIMERGY TX120 S2 server that was on display at the expo. The award is given during an annual competition at the event that recognizes the most outstanding and innovative products for government exhibited at FOSE.
Matt McManus recognized as a 2010 Channel Chief by CRN
On March 2, it was announced that Matt McManus, Vice President of Channel Sales at Fujitsu America, has been named a 2010 Channel Chief by the Everything Channel's CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers. They consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.
McManus, a channel executive with more than 20 years of channel, marketing and sales experience, was specifically selected as a CRN Channel Chief for his role in enhancing Fujitsu Accelerator Channel Partner Program tools to better help partners unify resources, reduce ordering complexity, generate new revenue opportunities and increase their bottom line.
The entire press release is located here.
UDS3000 NAS storage system announced
Fujitsu recently announced that the UDS 3000 Entry Level File Services for ETERNUS replaces the UDS 1000 and UDS 2000. This NAS solution for scalable file services is the solution for NFS and CIFS file service consolidation and virtualization. Built with trusted Fujitsu PRIMERGY and ETERNUS technology and industry-proven Symantec clustering and file systems, the UDS 3000 delivers world class availability and performance for file services. The UDS 3000 delivers unprecedented scalability and feature richness, such as:
- Policy management for Dynamic Storage Tiers
- Integrated anti-virus from Symantec
- Dynamic performance management though load balancing on clustered nodes
- SnapShot and Remote Replication technology
- Integrated backup with NetBackup and NDMP
To check out the specs for the new UDS3000, be sure to visit the website.
Fujitsu launches scalable file services for ETERNUS products
Fujitsu recently today announced a new file services solution for Fujitsu ETERNUS(R) storage systems. The solution enables organizations to build a scalable, high-performance, file-based storage infrastructure using proven technology from Fujitsu and Symantec Corp. Available immediately, the ETERNUS file services solution offers the ability to manage and protect critical information, maximize system performance, and scale performance and capacity non-disruptively as application needs change. The ETERNUS file services solution lets organizations of any size consolidate and manage large volumes of data while significantly reducing their costs.
This development follows a global announcement by Fujitsu and Symantec Corporation regarding the intent to expand their global strategic partnership and better serve their customers in the areas of data protection, storage management, and information security.
To read more about the Fujitsu-Symantec partnership, click here.
PRIMERGY CX1000 platform rewrites cloud computing price performance rules
On March 17, Fujitsu introduced the revolutionary PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server in North America. The PRIMERGY CX1000 server provides unprecedented levels of scale-out capability, ideal for cloud computing environments, and sets new standards in data center economics by optimizing the operating cost drivers of power, heat and space. There's a good introductory video available online.
The PRIMERGY CX1000 server is designed from the ground up to deliver as much computing power as possible per square foot, at the lowest-possible price, packing 38 server nodes into a single rack to provide a minimum savings of 20 percent in power and cooling in comparison to a standard rack server assembly. To get the whole scoop on this important technology, be sure to visit the CX1000 press release.
PRIMERGY server sets groundbreaking SPECpower benchmark
In February, Fujitsu announced that the PRIMERGY(R) TX150 S7 all-round mono socket server, the most energy-efficient server in its class, set a new SPECpower(R) ssj2008 world record and achieved ENERGY STAR(R) 1.0 family certification. In line with benchmark testing guidelines established by the independent Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the ground-breaking energy consumption result reflects how Fujitsu continues to strengthen a cornerstone of its Dynamic Infrastructure Portfolio with PRIMERGY servers that deliver new levels of performance, innovation and efficiency. To learn more, be sure to read the press release.
Fujitsu expands healthcare portfolio to provide end-to-end solutions
At the recent HIMSS conference, Fujitsu announced it has expanded its North American healthcare portfolio to deliver end-to-end America Enterprise, introducing new IT infrastructure services that join Fujitsu "lean" healthcare consulting services, patient registration kiosks, customer feedback systems, telecom management services and award-winning LifeBook(R) notebooks and tablet PCs. Based on the popularity of Fujitsu healthcare solutions, the company has averaged double-digit growth in tablet PC sales over the last three years.
New Fujitsu datacenter options for healthcare organizations include cloud computing, managed data center services and hosted offshore solutions based on award-winning Fujitsu PRIMERGY(R) servers, and ETERNUS(R) storage and virtualization systems. To read more about this important solution, please visit the link.