Fujitsu announces the global availability of blade server technology designed especially for smaller and mid-size businesses that are looking for scalable efficiencies and consolidation.
The new Primergy BX400 is a fully-featured blade system built from the ground up as a user-friendly and versatile infrastructure designed for mid-sized customers with large computing and storage requirements, including branch offices. It is a green datacenter in a box, providing an optimum combination of up to eight server or storage blades in a small enclosure, supported by a comprehensive set of solutions and services. It combines technology such as a fully integrated virtual storage appliance using technology from Fujitsu’s partnership with NetApp.
The blades is equipped with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and supports Windows and Linux OSes, as well as common hypervisors like Microsoft HyperV, VMware and Citrix Xen.
The BX400 ships with Fujitsu’s ServerView software suite, allowing easy and integrated system management and monitoring. Additional software components such ServerView Resource Coordinator VE and Virtual IO Manager deliver uniform operations for pools of physical and virtual servers combined with cost-effective high availability.
The rack version can be integrated easily into an industry standard 19-inch Fujitsu rack or other third-party racks. The floorstand version can fit under a desk or in reception areas without distraction, with low noise levels of 45 decibels.
Mehul Doshi, Country Manager, Enterprise Servers, Fujitsu India, said, “Midsize companies with large data volumes have similar IT needs to enterprises, but are more constrained by available IT expertise and budgets. The Primergy BX400 is a complete Dynamic Infrastructure of up to eight server and storage blades as well as network components supplemented with Fujitsu services extended into the cloud with Dynamic Services. Its small size is ideally suited for midsized companies with big computing and storage needs, needing no specialized power, cooling, or IT expertise.”
Primergy BX series is designed for a broad range of application areas, from web servers or terminal server farms with lower performance demands through to high performance database or application server configurations.
The Primergy BX400 will be available globally in December 2010 through authorized distributors. The pricing is yet to be announced.
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