Fujitsu offers massive scale-out computing platform to Web hosts and telcos

Issued by Opportun(at)e for CoCre8
Munich, 25 Jan 2012

Open-Xchange achieves 1.5 million concurrent users on a single Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 server rack.

Fujitsu today announced independent performance tests that underline to Web-hosting and telecommunications businesses just how the innovative Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud eXtension server rack offers unprecedented levels of scale-out computing power and unmatched price-performance.

Capacity tests carried out by Open-Xchange show that up to 1.5 million concurrent users can be supported on just a single industry-standard 19-inch PRIMERGY CX1000 server rack [1] - equivalent to serving the adult population of Hamburg from a single square meter of data centre.

Test results underline Fujitsu's unique solution for Web hosts and telcos facing the extreme data centre challenges of guaranteeing service capacity to millions of users while maintaining profitability despite hugely unpredictable costs of powering and cooling data centre servers. A third dimension is added by the necessity to minimise use of the limited and often expensive resource of data centre space, while optimising the operating cost drivers of power, heat and space.

Specifically addressing this market segment, Fujitsu's PRIMERGY CX1000 server is designed to deliver as much computing power as possible per square metre, at the lowest possible price. It packs 38 server nodes into an industry-standard rack, providing savings that start at 20% in power and cooling in comparison to a standard rack server assembly.

Due to the innovative Cool-Central architecture, which also saves floor space by removing the need for the data centre “hot aisle”, PRIMERGY CX1000 racks can be placed back-to-back, resulting in data centre footprint savings alone of up to 40%.

J"urgen Geck, Chief Technology Officer, Open-Xchange, the business-class e-mail and collaboration software for cloud providers, says: “Open-Xchange plans to again double its user base to 80 million paid mail boxes by the end of 2012, so we need an IT architecture that our customers can rely on to achieve our growth and revenue goals. For the same reason, Fujitsu's PRIMERGY CX1000 is the right choice for Web hosts and telcos, which can now also take advantage of a highly-scalable, cost-effective and proven open source collaboration solution based on Open-Xchange.”

Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice-President, Product Development Group at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, says: “Fujitsu PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension servers enable new economics to be built into cloud- and Web-hosting data centres by allowing enterprises to 'spend small' on energy consumption, data centre space and operational costs - and 'scale-out big' in numbers of supported users.”

(1) Capacity tests by Open-Xchange Engineering Lab (www.open-xchange.com) found that a single PRIMERGY CX122 S1 server node (Dual Intel Xeon 5620, 48GB RAM) was able to support 50 000 power users with extensive daily use of the Open-Xchange collaboration suite. With 38 server nodes per PRIMERGY CX1000, this scales out to support 1.5 million power users per single CX1000 instance running SUSE Enterprise Server 11. Further testing details can be found here: http://software.open-xchange.com/OX6/doc/whitepaper/OX6-Sizing-Whitepaper.pdf

For royalty-free photography of the Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000, see: http://mediaportal.ts.fujitsu.com/pages/search.php?search=!collection4+Cx1000&offset=0&order_by=field12&sort=DESC&archive=0 &k=

For further information on the PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server, please see:

* Product Web pages: http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy/scale-out/index.html

* White paper: PRIMERGY CX1000 - Built to float clouds http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=198392e7-5995-42ee-b840-cb05be6c5c1b

* White paper: Intel Cloud-builders guide - PRIMERGY CX1000 https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/docs/wp-intel-cloud-builders-guide-py-cx1000.pdf

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