Fujitsu intros new blade server system

NEW DELHI: Adding strength to its Primergy BX900 blade server system, Fujitsu, an IT-based business solutions provider, on Thursday announced that it has unveiled its new Dynamic Cube. The product is a new-generation Primergy BX900 blade server system, is considered to be the foundation stone in the company’s global market growth program for x86 servers.

The new Dynamic Cube has been unveiled as a complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single blade cube, said a press release.

A company statement said, “By using the Primergy BX900, customers can adapt dynamically to different IT usage scenarios, increasing the agility of IT infrastructures while reducing costs. This new-generation blade system, available to order immediately, spearheads Fujitsu’s global growth program to increase its market share for x86 servers, with a worldwide server sales goal of 500,000 units by 2010."

Built on four guiding principles, the system uses a new power and cooling concept to reduce energy costs, aims at achieving improvements in operational performance, through dynamic virtualization, tries to deliver unmatched uptime via dynamic high availability and is said to be a guaranteed investment protection, said the release.

Believed to be a leader in terms of reduced energy consumption, Primergy BX900 operates at new levels of power efficiency. Customers stand the chance to reduce energy costs by thousands of Euros per chassis per year, said the company. Besides, the system is equipped with the latest Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, making the Primergy BX900 deliver industry-leading virtualization capabilities.

The new system architecture is said to enable Fujitsu offer two more blades in a standard 10U chassis than any other vendor design. The Dynamic Cube offers 12 percent more system performance in comparison to other vendors’ blade systems, it said.