BWI: Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Platform Rewrites Cloud Computing Price-Performance Rules

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Fujitsu India Pvt. Ltd.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 06:53 PM IST (01:23 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Business services, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology; Technology
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Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Platform Rewrites Cloud Computing Price-Performance Rules
Fujitsu Unveils Revolutionary Scale-Out 'Cloud eXtension' Architecture, Does Away with Need for Hot Aisle

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, April 15, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Fujitsu today rewrites the datacenter rule book in introducing the revolutionary PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server. The PRIMERGY CX1000 provides unprecedented levels of scale-out capability, ideal for Cloud environments, and sets new standards in datacenter economics by optimizing the operating cost drivers of power, heat and space.

The PRIMERGY CX1000 is designed from the ground up to deliver as much computing power as possible per square meter, at the lowest-possible price, packing 38 server nodes into a rack to provide minimum savings of 20 percent in power and cooling in comparison to a standard rack server assembly. The PRIMERGY CX adds a new class of server to the current Fujitsu x86 line-up of PRIMERGY blade (BX), rack (RX) and tower (TX) models, and becomes a cornerstone of Fujitsu's overall Infrastructure-as-a-Service strategy with which we take another step on the way to a service-oriented, platform-based delivery model for IT services.

With the PRIMERGY CX1000, Fujitsu unveils a creative new Cool-CentralT architecture that also saves space by removing the need for the datacenter "hot aisle" - the space behind racks where hot air is blown out of the back of running servers. Instead, the PRIMERGY CX1000 features an internal chimney that funnels hot air through the top of the standard-size rack. This allows for rows of PRIMERGY CX1000 racks to be placed back-to-back, resulting in floor-space savings alone of up to 40 percent.

This revolutionary approach also translates into significant carbon reductions for datacenter operators. Fujitsu Group has embarked on a global Green ICT initiative, Green Policy Innovation, aimed at helping customers achieve their environmental commitments. Breakthrough technologies like the PRIMERGY CX1000, designed to dramatically reduce environmental footprints, will be an important part of achieving this mission.

Back-to-basics design ethos

The PRIMERGY CX1000's back-to-basics approach to individual components does away with the need for full system redundancy and hot-pluggable components. Within massive scale-out applications and fully-virtualized system environments, services running on non-responding servers are simply switched by software from one to another server and restarted.

Built on off-the-shelf components, the simplistic design concept of the PRIMERGY CX1000 is to replace individual server nodes in case of a system failure - then replace faulty components offline. Adding and removing nodes is a snap, thanks to the PRIMERGY CX1000's shared infrastructure - with centralized power distribution and cooling.

"Cloud computing demands have caught datacenter operators in a vicious circle of performance and cost," says Mr. Pallab Talukdar, CEO Fujitsu India. "Today, the battles are being won and lost on the plains of price-performance. With the PRIMERGY CX1000 we're introducing a solution that goes beyond the scale-out performance envelope of rack servers - without blowing budgets - which is especially compelling in Cloud computing environments."

"New products require new services, and new services are realized by new products. The PRIMERGY CX1000 introduces a new hybrid approach ensuring that we meet every customer's unique demand: cost efficiency gains from implementing standardized services such as IaaS, plus the flexibility to add customized services such as Managed Services," concludes Talukdar.

The PRIMERGY CX1000 system features the new generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, which delivers unprecedented levels of processing power. Raejeanne Skillern, Director of Cloud Computing Marketing at Intel Corporation, says: "Intel and Fujitsu have a long and successful history of partnering to bring valuable combinations of Intel-based PRIMERGY servers to the IT server marketplace. With the launch of Intel's new Xeon 5600 processor series (code name Westmere-EP), Intel welcomes the next generation of broad server offerings from Fujitsu's PRIMERGY product line, and Intel is especially delighted with Fujitsu's new PRIMERGY CX1000."

Pictures of the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 are available at:
http://mediaserver.ts.fujitsu.com/photoserver/index.cfm?fuseaction=list&CFID=2795489&CFTOKEN=96527439&fid=12421

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com

About Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Fujitsu Technology Solutions is the leading European IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large-, medium- and small-sized companies as well as consumers. With its Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from clients to datacenter solutions, Managed Infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology Solutions employs more than 10,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group. For more information, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus

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