Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, today announced a major enhancement to the Dynamic Data Center: the PRIMERGY Advanced Blade Ecosystem.
This industry-leading server architecture, based on the PRIMERGY BX630 with AMD Opteron processors, enables two-way blade servers to connect to become a physical four-way blade server.
For the first time, scale-out and scale-up technologies are combined in one architecture enabling IT directors to utilise their server capacity and flexibility creating a more agile and dynamic data centre. The PRIMERGY BX630 blade server is now available across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Customers today are seeing an increase in their applications that run on two- and four-way industry standard servers. The Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Advanced Blade Ecosystem offers customers the capability to connect and disconnect their two-way servers to create their ideal environment, without having to invest in additional hardware. This unique performance flexibility makes the PRIMERGY BX630 an ideal choice for terminal servers, web servers or communication servers with heavy load profiles.
In addition, the company also announced an AMD Opteron-based 1U model - PRIMERGY RX220 - which will complement the range of rack-optimised systems principally designed for applications with high performance needs. The PRIMERGY RX220 is available immediately throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"With the Advanced Blade Ecosystem we offer a unique innovation to the customer. Based on industry standard AMD Opteron processors, the PRIMERGY BX630 can easily be integrated into their existing environments," says Rui de Oliveira, Product Manager Enterprise Servers at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "The PRIMERGY brand represents quality, innovation and technology designed to help customers to enhance their business."
2+2=4 - The direct connect architecture
During peak performance requirements, customers can create a 4-way server with two 2-way servers by just connecting the two 2-way servers using the HyperTransport link of the AMD Opteron processors. According to actual needs they can switch from running 2-way servers to 4-way servers and back without investing into new hardware. The performance of 2+2 matches a machine with a native 4-way. By choosing Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, this blade concept even delivers eight physical processor cores in one 4-way blade system. This blade concept is ideally suited for scale out and scale up scenarios at the same time, which increases efficiency and utilisation of invested hardware and gives customers great flexibility.
Due to the usual high heat dissipation companies increasingly have to face thermal problems in data centres which has become one of the major problems in larger data centres. The excellent power budget of Opteron processors, which is another key feature of the new PRIMERGY Blade Ecosystem and the RX220 model, reduces the power consumption which means not only lower energy costs but enables Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY servers to decrease the heat dissipation and the thermal issues. Additionally, higher systems density is achieved which helps either to reduce the size of the server farm or to deploy a larger number of servers in a minimum space.
The outstanding system performance of the new PRIMERGY models is based on the innovative Direct Connect Architecture (HyperTransport link) of the AMD Opteron processors.
Due to the direct connection of I/O and memory with the CPU the Direct Connect Architecture addresses and helps reduce the real challenges and bottlenecks of system architectures providing optimised memory performance, balanced throughput, expandable I/O, and more linear symmetrical multiprocessing.
"AMD and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have worked closely together to provide a powerful platform addressing the specific requirements of the server segment leveraging AMD`s technology leadership in dual-core processing," said Alberto Macchi, Vice-President of Sales, AMD EMEA. "The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture provides the computing capacity to support the growing number of applications typically required by this market segment. Additionally, AMD64 technology protects companies` software investments by enabling a seamless migration from 32-bit to 64-bit and single- to dual-core computing as business needs evolve."
The "mix&match" concept of the PRIMERGY Advanced Blade Ecosystem ensures customer investment protection. The new PRIMERGY BX630 blades can be installed and run together with Intel processor-based PRIMERGY BX600 blades in the same chassis.
The new cost-efficient PRIMERGY RX220 extends the PRIMERGY RACK portfolio to the lowest density basic feature segment with Dual Opteron CPUs. With technical evolutions like dual core CPU and 16 (32) GB direct addressable memory the PRIMERGY RX220 matches perfectly performance requirements for business applications.
The new products will be shipped across EMEA by Fujitsu Siemens Computer and in the US by Fujitsu Computer System Ltd.
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The Dynamic Data Center (DDC) is a concept for a new-generation hardware and software architecture that focuses on end-user services and service level agreements (SLAs) which enables on-demand computing to become a reality. With the DDC Fujitsu Siemens Computers enables companies to move from system-related tier-IT structures into service-oriented architectures. This means, for example, that computers and database resources can be dynamically aligned to applications and the result is increased flexibility and reliability, as well as considerable improvement in the cost-effectiveness of the IT infrastructure.
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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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