New EMC Symmetrix V-Max system available immediately from Fujitsu

Issued by Opportun(at)e for Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Munich, 20 Apr 2009

Fujitsu Technology Solutions today announces the immediate availability of the first new storage solution purpose-built to support virtual data centres, the EMC Symmetrix V-Max system.

Symmetrix V-Max, designed to provide massive storage scalability to the virtualised solutions, is a key building block for Fujitsu's Dynamic Infrastructures strategy, which is based on solutions that are specifically designed for virtualised and automated environments.

Already EMC's biggest Symmetrix partner worldwide, Fujitsu Technology Solutions has a 12-year partnership with EMC in EMEA. As a result of the strategic alliance, Fujitsu Technology Solutions resells selected EMC storage systems and software - as well as building in EMC solutions to its own offerings.

The new EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture delivers massive scalability - enabling systems that scale to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage, and supporting hundreds of thousands of virtual servers in a single federated storage infrastructure. Furthermore, the new Symmetrix V-Max system, the first built using the new architecture, allows users to cost-effectively meet the widest range of storage requirements for high performance and high capacity in a single system.

Ewald Meyer, Storage Specialist at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, comments: “Fujitsu and EMC have a long history of providing our EMEA customers with flexible and scalable infrastructures. Adding the new Symmetrix V-Max system to our portfolio fits well with our Dynamic Infrastructures strategy, since it will help customers reach new levels of efficiencies in virtualised data centres.”

David Donatelli, President of the EMC Storage Division, says: “The EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture is a breakthrough new approach to high-end storage. It is the first high-end storage system architecture that combines the ability to both scale up and scale out so customers can start small and grow without limits and adapt to change automatically. Together, EMC and Fujitsu are working to meet the special requirements of the virtual data centre and help customers bridge the old and the new - from today's physical world to tomorrow's virtual world.”

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Fujitsu Technology Solutions is the leading European IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large, medium and small sized companies as well as consumers. With its Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from clients to data centre solutions, Managed Infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology Solutions employs more than 10 000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group, which delivers IT-based business solutions to customers in 70 countries through a workforce of more than 160 000 employees. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu reported consolidated revenue of 5.3 trillion yen (US $53 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008.

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EMC, Symmetrix, Virtual Matrix Architecture and Symmetrix V-Max are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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