On February 4, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced that ComplianceEase, a division of LogicEase Solutions Inc., has standardized on a Fujitsu ETERNUS(R) storage area network (SAN) and Fujitsu SPARC(R)-based servers running the Solaris(TM) operating system to power its industry-leading risk management platform, including ComplianceAnalyzer(R), a hosted web-based automated compliance solution for the financial services industry. With Fujitsu, ComplianceEase(R) now enjoys unmatched support from the Fujitsu Customer Services team, and has further augmented the level of performance and reliability demanded by its annual SAS70 audit. 

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, ComplianceEase serves the mortgage industry with a patented, web-based automated solution that uses advanced reasoning and decisioning technologies as well as natural language processing to review residential mortgages for regulatory compliance in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. The company’s success is directly tied to the performance and reliability of its IT systems. 

“We needed to upgrade our systems with the most current technology for better performance, reliability and security, and with our annual SAS70 Type II audit of internal controls on the horizon, the timing was ideal,” said Jason Roth, SVP Product Development & Engineering at ComplianceEase, referring to the third-party assurance certificate program developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). 

To read the entire press release about the Fujitsu-ComplianceEase arrangement, click here. To learn more about ComplianceEase, be sure to visit their web site. 

Fujitsu Limited has recognized its PRIMERGY TX120, a compact size server with the world’s smallest footprint, as a “Super Green Product”. The TX120 reduces CO₂ emission by 37% throughout its lifecycle. The Compact Size Server PRIMERGY TX120 is an environment-conscious product which fulfills customer needs with low power consumption, space saving design and whisper-quiet operation while maintaining the toughness essential to servers to operate 24/7 to keep business running. 

This product aims to be the leading standard of the industry with full commitment from the product planning stage. It reflects demanding customer needs for advanced product performance such as energy saving, space saving, and quiet operation, and also reduced environmental load. 

Low power consumption, aimed to be kept at a low level as a typical desktop PC, is realized by adopting low power consuming components and controlling fan rotation which leads to high standard in energy conservation. It also makes a significant contribution to resource saving by downsizing the heat sink and power supply unit while also maintaining minimum scalability based on past customer usage results. 

The Fujitsu group will continue contributing to the global environment by providing customers with environment-friendly differentiated products and expanding Super Green Products which are strengthening energy and resource saving and measures against chemical materials. 

Recently, the environmental problems have been a major issue as various forms of highly unusual weather occur worldwide and international regulations are enforced. Business enterprises and local governments are shifting to focus on green procurement as demands for providing environment-conscious products increase. 

To learn more about the small but powerful PRIMERGY TX120, go to the TX120 web page. 

The Fujitsu ServerView suite works in conjunction with the Integrated Remote Management Controller (IRMC) in supporting around-the-clock operation of PRIMERGY servers and improving end-user productivity with intelligent system management solutions. ServerView delivers higher IT value and reduced operating costs by allowing network-wide remote access, providing a single point of control. At the same time, automated updating and detailed asset management simplify operation. Centralized remote control also helps minimize branch office costs by eliminating the need for an on-site administrator and contributes to cost savings by allowing the PRIMERGY servers to be shut down at night when not in use in order to save power. 

To read more about ServerView and IRMC, be sure to download the related Data Sheet. 

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation recently discussed how the addition of its new SPARC Enterprise™ servers deliver on the Fujitsu strategy and commitment to offering the broadest choice of platforms and best customer service in the industry. The new servers, announced in a separate release increase the breadth of Fujitsu technology solutions, which include tightly integrated, pre-tested solutions that solve their customers’ most challenging business issues and help them lower total cost of ownership as they plan for the future. “The new high-performance SPARC Enterprise servers represent another major milestone for our strategy, designed to solve the most complex real-world challenges of our customers through flexible, highly reliable hardware and software that leverage the latest integration, virtualization, and automation technologies,” said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. “We surround these solutions with the absolute dedication of our service professionals to customer success and to meeting or exceeding environmentally friendly regulations. In the end, it’s all about enabling customers to choose the right technology for their specific needs, while giving them the confidence that every solution they choose will deploy and function as expected, and every issue that arises will be resolved.”  To learn more about this exciting technology solution, go to this link.  

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 all key metrics, including hardware, software, data center occupancy, and personnel costs. In addition to the TCO savings, Fujitsu realized significant gains in workforce efficiency by integrating their purchasing applications during the consolidation project.
In a recent white paper co-authored by Fujitsu Limited and Intel Corporation entitled “Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Through Server Consolidation”, details were provided about this highly successful program. To read the entire white paper, as well as a number of other interesting PRIMEQUEST-related papers, please go to the PRIMEQUEST Case Studies page.

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) 2 1.6 GHz processors, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 operating system achieved 1,238,579 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC. 

According to the Oracle press release: “Our customers choose Oracle Database 10g on Lintel-based platforms to achieve the highest levels of OLTP performance while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum,” said Richard Sarwal, senior vice president of Systems Management, Oracle. “We are committed to providing enterprises with highly scalable databases and functionality to support the most demanding transaction processing, business intelligence and content management applications.” 

“The Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 servers are built to meet robust enterprise database demands with the industry’s highest reliability and performance in Linux environments. Designed with Fujitsu mainframe expertise, PRIMEQUEST servers are ideal for large-scale database systems and online transaction processing environments,” said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing for Fujitsu Computer Systems. 

Please click here to read the press release in its entirety. 

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 system provided by Fujitsu consists of a PRIMEQUEST server, PRIMERGY BX620 S3 blade servers, and ETERNUS storage systems. Integrating PC servers onto the PRIMEQUEST server enables the time required to access electronic medical records to be reduced to approximately one-third the time that was previously needed. The new system has been operating since January 2007. 

Nagoya University Hospital, one of the core medical institutions in central Japan, sees approximately 500,000 outpatients per year and has 29 departments and 1,035 beds. The hospital has been an early-adopter of health information technology (HIT), such as implementing an electronic medical record system in 2002. 

To read more about this critical integration, please open the press release here. 

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 Center offers advanced computing services for computational science, including fluid analysis and molecular science, to on and off-campus researchers. The new system will be capable of 31.5 teraflops (a teraflop is one trillion floating-point operations per second), making it the most powerful supercomputer among the seven centers. The new supercomputer will help meet the growing demand for scientific and technical computing at academic and research institutions. 

The new supercomputing system will be a hybrid consisting of two cluster systems. A large symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) cluster of 32 Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 mission-critical IA servers, along with a cluster of 384 Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S3 industry standard servers, will be complemented by a single PRIMEQUEST 580 acting as a file-management server. 

To learn more about this powerful new system, read the entire Fujitsu press release here.