On May 12, Fujitsu America introduced the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server as part of the first global release of a PRIMERGY server under the Fujitsu brand name.
The BX900 Blade Server employs the versatile, highly-reliable BX920 server blades that provide high performance and maximum redundancy with minimum rack space, power consumption and cabling effort required.
The blade server market is forecast to be the biggest growing server market for the near future. To address that market, the PRIMERGY BX900 offers the maximum number of blades, maximum networking power, high memory density and the best power efficiency rates.
PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers are the perfect choice for data center solutions in which the key demands are reliable and innovative platforms for performance and connectivity. The PRIMERGY BX series is designed for a broad range of application areas, from Web server or terminal server farms with lower performance demands all the way to high performance database or application server configurations. As your business changes, PRIMERGY Blade Servers can easily grow in order to match your new requirements.
PRIMERGY BX920 Server Blades are the workhorses in the PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server system. They contain highly reliable motherboards with high performance rates as well as energy-efficient processors, main memory modules and onboard network controllers. The server blades may also optionally be equipped with local hard disk drives and additional mezzanine cards as prerequisites for enhanced external connectivity.

To learn more about the BX900 line, visit the PRIMERGY BX900 web page.

To view a webinar about the new blade server, click on this link to register today.

Fujitsu was among the select companies that Forrester Research invited to participate in its April 6, 2009, report “The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009.” In this evaluation, Fujitsu was selected as a strong performer in global IT infrastructure outsourcing.
The Forrester team, led by Principal Analyst Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., evaluated each leading global IT infrastructure outsourcing service provider against 31 criteria and compared that evaluation against other global vendors. According to the report, “Fujitsu demonstrated a good balance of current offering capabilities and strategy to land in the Strong Performer category.”
Fujitsu also received top scores for the following criteria:
• Client feedback on account management
• Infrastructure services client base
• Total employees
Jack Noble, executive vice president, IT Services Group at Fujitsu America, says the company is building upon the major pieces of IT infrastructure capability that make Fujitsu America a full-spectrum IT solutions provider. The initiative will fuel growth in North America and support globalization.
“Only the strongest global firms with demonstrable track records for success in IT infrastructure outsourcing were included in this report,” said Noble. “This is a great achievement for Fujitsu, but we will not rest on our laurels. Our company has long delivered premium IT infrastructure solutions and services to clients worldwide, and the new Fujitsu America will continue this commitment through enhanced offerings and initiatives for companies across North America.”
To view the complete press release, please visit this link.

PRIMERGY BX900 S1 Blade Server
PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers are the perfect choice for data center solutions in which the key demands are reliable and innovative platforms for performance and connectivity. The PRIMERGY BX series is designed for a broad range of application areas, from Web server or terminal server farms with lower performance demands all the way to high performance database or application server configurations. As your business changes, PRIMERGY Blade Servers can easily grow in order to match your new requirements.

The PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers are characterized by flexibility, allowing dynamic software reconfiguration and full control with a redundant single point of administration. The extensive software support for control, management and deployment minimizes administrative costs and frees you from time-consuming tasks. Our build-to-order process ensures that only fully built and pre-tested solutions are delivered to the customer, tailored to your requirements and ready to grow with your business needs. In addition our worldwide available specialists provide conceptual support for conversion or expansion of your data center as well as services that might become necessary during operation, in order to keep or enhance the service quality of your IT.
The PRIMERGY BX900 S1 is a complete Dynamic Server Infrastructure in a single blade cube. This blade server can be dynamically adapted to different IT requirements, thereby reducing costs while increasing your IT agility. The PRIMERGY BX900 can accommodate up to 18 server blades in a 10U chassis. Using Cool -safe™, our trademarked cooling concept, combined with power supplies with 90% efficiency and the embedded ServerView Power management software, it ensures truly dynamic power and cooling capabilities that save you money. Equipped with the latest Intel VT processor technologies, very large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, the PRIMERGY BX900 is optimized for any virtualization scenario. Its density and stackability enable flexible scaling to ensure complete investment protection.

To learn more about the PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Servers, be sure to read the PRIMERGY BX900 data sheet.

To view a webinar about the new blade server, click on this link to register today.

PRIMERGY BX920 S1 Server Blades
PRIMERGY BX Server Blades are the workhorses in the PRIMERGY BX Blade Server system. They contain highly reliable motherboards with high performance rates as well as energy-efficient processors, main memory modules and onboard network controllers. The server blades may also optionally be equipped with local hard disk drives and additional mezzanine cards as prerequisites for enhanced external connectivity.

Based on those capabilities, the PRIMERGY BX Server Blades can run various types of applications in a physical or virtualized environment - quickly, reliably and flexibly. The PRIMERGY BX920 S1 blade server uses the Intel® 5500 processors, their newest and most powerful member of the Xeon® family. Utilizing the QuickPath architecture and dedicated on-chip memory controllers, the Xeon 5500 processors easily exceed the capacities of the prior generation. The BX920 S1 blade server can host two of these processors, with up to two hard drives, 72 GB of DDR3 memory, and two dual-channel Intel 82575gigabit Ethernet controllers.

The BX920 S1 is ideal for virtualization using hypervisors such as VMware® ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V™, or Citrix XenServer™.
In addition, PRIMERGY BX920 S1 blades are equipped with our state of- the-art integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC S2), and with their wide range of processor, disk, and memory options, they provide IT managers with the performance and scalability they need for any data center application.

To learn more about this exciting new product, go to the BX920 Server Blade data sheet.

On April 1, 2009, Fujitsu America begins operations, led by President and CEO Farhat Ali. The new business unit of Fujitsu Limited consolidates the application services of Fujitsu Consulting, the system platforms of Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation, and the retailing solutions of Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. under a unified corporate structure. The new company is designed to expand offerings and provide North American clients a single resource for all their computing technology and IT services needs.
The introduction of Fujitsu America creates an agile, local organization that leverages more than 70 years of technology innovation — including 32,000 patents — and the fourth largest global IT services firm to deliver to North American clients true end-to-end IT solutions.
According to Farhat Ali, Fujitsu America president and CEO, “Fujitsu America now ranks among the top North American IT services and solutions companies, and we are poised for growth with the addition of a greater range of managed services offerings. Fujitsu America is uniquely positioned in North America, combining the industry-specific solutions, expertise, resources and scale of a global IT leader with the direct accountability, intimacy and responsiveness of a local service provider.”
To get all the details about this significant new merger, go to the press release.
The new Fujitsu America organization provides a complete portfolio of business technology services, computing platforms, and industry solutions. Fujitsu platform products are based on scalable, reliable and high-performance server, storage, point-of-sale, and mobile technologies. Fujitsu combines its renowned platform offerings with a full suite of system integration, outsourcing, and datacenter services covering applications, operations, infrastructure, customer service, and multi-vendor lifecycle services. Fujitsu continues to provide industry-specific solutions for retail, manufacturing, healthcare, government, education, financial services, and telecommunications sectors. For more information on Fujitsu America’s business scope, visit http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/.

In a recent issue of Processor.com, Christian Perry solicited advice from Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing at Fujitsu on tips for organizing server cabinets and eliminating potentially dangerous practices.
McCormack’s tips include putting the larger, heavier servers at the bottom, putting highly loaded servers and storage at the bottom, and placing network gear in the middle for easy cable management or on top for top-down data centers. He also explains that KVM switches should be placed in the middle for easy access, while power strips and gear can be in “cubbies” on the sides of the cabinets to reduce cable management problems and how rack dummy panels help avoid hot-aisle/cold-aisle contamination and ensure ventilation and airflow.
To read the entire article with helpful tips from a variety of professionals, go to page 22 of Processor.com.

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.

On October 28, Fujitsu Limited and Sun Microsystems, Inc. expanded their SPARC Enterprise server family by adding the entry-level SPARC Enterprise M3000 server, powered by a single quad-core SPARC64 VII processor and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server inherits the mission-critical features of the SPARC64-based SPARC Enterprise server family, delivering mainframe-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) in an ultra-dense open system at an entry-level price. The new systems are ideal platforms for single-threaded enterprise applications including databases, BIDW, ERP and CRM.
“The SPARC Enterprise M3000 server provides a perfect balance between mission-critical features, compact form factor and power efficiency,” said Masami Yamamoto, corporate senior vice president of Fujitsu. “The new SPARC Enterprise server offers excellent performance for a broad range of application areas and will facilitate innovation in customers’ business processes.”
You can read all the details about the M3000 server here.

Microsoft recently published a white paper, written jointly with Fujitsu Computer Systems, that compares transactions per kilowatt hour (kWh) on IBM mainframes and a PRIMERGY® RX300-S4 server. Mainframers will likely be surprised when they realize how much pollution mainframes create compared to the small carbon footprint of the PRIMERGY servers. In a time of increased environmental awareness, this should be an important factor in choosing a server provider.
You can read the entire white paper here.