Fujitsu promotes 'Dynamic Cube Starter Kit' to drive effectiveness, reduce costs

Johannesburg, 01 Jul 2010

Fujitsu today launched the PRIMERGY 'Dynamic Cube Starter Kit' in South Africa. The promotion is designed to convincingly demonstrate to medium-sized and large businesses the benefits delivered by Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures and server virtualisation in driving their business effectiveness and cutting their IT costs.

Every new Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 S1 x86 blade server enclosure ordered before the end of 2010 will come complete with the virtual IO management software, Fujitsu ServerView VIOM (Virtual IO Manager), plus one year's free service and support.

Better known as The Dynamic Cube for its future-proof and flexible design, the PRIMERGY BX900 S1 is a single chassis incorporating a complete dynamic server infrastructure, with up to 18 server blades.

The Dynamic Cube increases business agility through dynamic power and cooling, high availability, scalability, and virtualisation, while reducing operational, energy and management IT costs. Drawing upon a complete range of innovative server blade modules, the Dynamic Cube meets varying application needs from the lower performance demands of Web server and terminal server farms through to high-performance database and application server configurations. 1

The Dynamic Cube achieves its best high-availability, scalability, and virtualisation performance - when paired with ServerView VIOM across all server blades and with no additionally required proprietary I/O hardware. ServerView VIOM greatly simplifies administration of PRIMERGY Blade Servers by removing an entire layer of complexity from current switching architectures, and clearly separates server management from LAN/SAN management. Together with ServerView, the PRIMERGY BX900 Dynamic Cube is also a segment leader in terms of lowered energy consumption. 2

Richard Sutherland, Portfolio Manager Dynamic Infrastructures at Fujitsu, says: “The Dynamic Cube Starter Kit offers a perfect virtualisation solution and a risk-free opportunity for all IT managers who have complex LAN and SAN environments. With the PRIMERGY BX900, Fujitsu helps businesses to optimise how they interact with different networks by virtualising the server-related I/O, making modifications easier and quicker. Our customers benefit from reduced installation time, due to attractive bundling of hardware and licences, combined with service and support, and including ServerView VIOM at no extra cost.”

For further information, please see:

1 PRIMERGY BX900 S1 Datasheet: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/blade/primergy_index.html

2 Fujitsu ServerView VIOM Datasheet:
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/system_management/serverview_viom.html)

Video: Fujitsu ServerView VIOM:
http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=4f998e82-c98a-4b2c-83ee-28d60932d8cb

For images and photography, please see:
PRIMERGY BX900 S1: http://mediaserver.ts.fujitsu.com/photoserver/index.cfm?Searchstring=BX900&fuseaction=list&newsearch=true&fid=1&page=1&search=true&CFID=2197131&CFtoken=86479889

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Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 170 000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$50 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com.

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Fujitsu promotes 'Dynamic Cube Starter Kit' to drive effectiveness, reduce costs

South African businesses get free management software with PRIMERGY BX900 S1.