Fujitsu says that the PRIMERGY BX900 is built on four guiding principles. The first is a dynamic new power and cooling concept to reduce energy costs. The second is to achieve improvements in operational performance, through dynamic virtualization. The third principle of the PRIMERGY BX900 concept is to deliver unmatched uptime, via dynamic high availability. Finally, guaranteed investment protection is accomplished through the fourth principle, new system architecture offering dynamic scalability.
The new offering is a complete server infrastructure in a single blade cube. 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.
Equipped with the latest Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, the PRIMERGY BX900 is designed to deliver industry-leading virtualization capabilities.
These virtualization capabilities also make PRIMERGY BX900 an ideal solution for consolidation projects. With the full integration of Fujitsu Server View Resource Coordinator VE management software, the PRIMERGY BX900 can simplify IT operations by delivering uniform operations for pools of physical and virtual servers and visualizing the connections of the networks. In addition, this solution can automate IT operations, reducing time for the provisioning or exchanging of servers by up to 90 percent.
Dynamic High Availability
The PRIMERGY BX900 is designed for full redundancy, reducing unplanned system downtime. It features software-managed hardware failover, and every single active component is hot-swappable.
Dynamic Scalability
By design, the PRIMERGY BX900 is optimized for investment protection through its scalability. Created in cooperation with Intel, the system has a stackable, high-density design that enables performance upgrades through the addition of further PRIMERGY BX900 units.
In addition, the new system architecture enables Fujitsu to offer two more blades in a standard 10U chassis than any other vendor design -- with a record-taking 18-blade design. Thanks to these extra blades, the Dynamic Cube immediately offers 12 percent more system performance in comparison to other vendors' blade systems.
IDC analyst Vernon Turner, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom research, commented: "With the introduction of the Dynamic Cube, Fujitsu really raises the stakes in the datacenter blade market sector. The combination of the system's superior performance, its powerful virtualization capabilities and its power savings add up to make the PRIMERGY BX900 an attractive proposition. We expect to see Fujitsu gain share in the upper segment of the blade server market as a direct consequence of this launch."
Manufactured in Augsburg, Germany, and in Fukushima, Japan, the PRIMERGY BX900 reflects the best of German and Japanese engineering and quality control. PRIMERGY BX900 systems start shipping on May 21, 2009.