Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, today announced an exclusive OEM strategic alliance with Egenera Inc to bring additional levels of flexibility and economic efficiency into the Dynamic Data Centre.
To enable customers to increase the efficient operation of IT, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will integrate the award-winning Egenera BladeFrame solution into its PRIMERGY server portfolio.
This exclusive strategic alliance, worth EUR240 million ($300 million) over approximately three years, is effective immediately and is valid throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will become the sole provider of PRIMERGY BladeFrame in EMEA and will start shipping product during the fourth calendar quarter of 2005 in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom and South Africa.
The products will be available in the first calendar quarter of 2006 in all other EMEA countries. In addition, the agreement also serves as a framework for future joint research and development collaboration, joint solution testing and Fujitsu Siemens Computers will have a seat on Egenera`s technology advisory board.
"This agreement is a natural extension of our Dynamic Data Centre and TRIOLE strategy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Egenera have a complementary vision of the Dynamic Data Centre. With our proven IT infrastructure solutions, such as FlexFrame for mySAP Business Suite, we have already made this vision a reality," said Dr Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer at Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
"Our customers want solutions that help them adapt and build their data centres to support overall business objectives. The PRIMERGY BladeFrame system, a technology that is already deployed in marquee data centres around the globe, brings the DDC to the next level. We are excited to team up with Egenera in the Dynamic Data Centre, as they have comprehensive, leading vision and the most advanced implementation in this field. We look forward to a successful alliance that will benefit our customers across EMEA."
"Today`s agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a major proof point, validating our strategy of growth through strategic alliances and geographic diversification," said Bob Dutkowsky, chairman, president and CEO, Egenera. "We were looking for a strong partner among IT market leaders that shared our vision, appreciated our value proposition, and had the strength and breadth to deliver our solutions across EMEA. In addition, this agreement provides a framework for joint research and development, benefiting both companies and our customers. We are gratified that a company of Fujitsu Siemens Computers` calibre has chosen Egenera as a technology partner to help make the next generation of data centre technology a reality for its customers."
Through adding PRIMERGY BladeFrame to its solutions offering, Fujitsu Siemens Computers is providing customers an additional avenue towards the Dynamic Data Centre. Designed to help enterprises enhance their responsiveness to market opportunities, the Dynamic Data Centre offers CIOs infrastructures to control costs and improve ROI. They are in turn, able to support their organisations with increased flexibility and application performance as well as effective resource utilisation.
"In SA customers are currently engaged in the process of evaluating and integrating dynamic IT solutions designed to help them lower operating costs, reduce complexity and increase flexibility in the commercial use of their applications," says Mark Wilson, Managing Director of Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
"We have concentrated our efforts on the Dynamic Data Centre, and together with our innovative dynamic IT solutions such as FlexFrame, are now taking levels of virtualisation further. We are now able to provide customers two complementary paths for dynamic IT: FlexFrame for ISV specific infrastructures like SAP, and PRIMERGY BladeFrame for application heterogeneous environments."
PRIMERGY BladeFrame, based on Intel XEON and AMD Opteron processors, is a new type of dynamic enterprise server solution that creates a pool of anonymous, interchangeable server nodes. It disassociates the components that make up this pool - processors, networks and storage - and operates with virtual servers. The effect is to make the server hardware fundamentally independent from the operating system (Linux or Windows) or application software.
PRIMERGY BladeFrame is a dynamically usable server pool in which the individual computer nodes are reduced to CPU and memory resources (known as `stateless servers`) using shared, virtual I/O interfaces for LAN/SAN/switches mapped by the integrated PAN (Processing Area Network) Manager software.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will become the sole provider of PRIMERGY BladeFrame in EMEA. As of the fourth quarter 2005, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will offer two different models. The PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF 400 consolidates up to 96 server-class x86 processors running Linux or Microsoft Windows. The system consists of a chassis containing up to 24 processing blades, redundant central controllers, redundant integrated switches, redundant high-speed interconnects and PAN Manager software. The entry-level model PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF 200 contains up to six processing blades.
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider with a responsible strategic focus on next-generation mobility and business-critical computing products, services and solutions. With a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a strong presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users.
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Egenera Inc
Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify data centre operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family simplifies the data centre with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilisation, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts, Egenera has offices worldwide. More information is available at www.Egenera.com.
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