Fujitsu launches a new all in one 'dynamic' server

A new server claiming to bring products and solutions together “from platform through to services” was launched today by Fujitsu.

The PRIMERGY BX900, or the Dynamic Cube as it has been dubbed by the company, is an x86 blade server system featuring Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor.

The server was designed with four aspects in mind – power and cooling, virtualisation, high availability and scalability.

Jelle Vervaeke, senior product marketing manager for Fujitsu, said: “These four dynamic principles will allow data centres to cut costs but improve agility.”

Vervaeke claimed that Fujitsu’s own CoolSafe concept to cool the system would reduce costs in energy by 25 per cent compared to its competitors.

And by including automated management solutions, such as its server management software ServerView, Fujitsu claimed in a statement that it could reduce “time for the provisioning or exchanging of servers by up to 90 per cent.”

An extra feature of the blade server system is that you can stack four of the 18 blade chassis together to create a 72 blade server, with two CPUs controllable as one box.

Vervaeke said: “With its 2.5TB memory and bandwidth wider than anyone else in the market the PRIMERGY BX900 is superior to Dell, HP and IBM.”

The plan to incorporate servers, solutions and services into this product is part of Fujitsu’s plan for growth known as its “Dynamic Infrastructure.”

Jens-Peter Seick, senior vice president of x86 Server Product Division at Fujitsu, said today that his company had a four per cent share in the market, but he also boldly claimed that he plans for this to be up to 10 per cent by 2012.

He said: “This server is the basic building block for our Dynamic Infrastructure. We have a very clear growth strategy to increase our global footprint signature [and] have developed services and solutions centred around the Dymanmic Cube to do so.”

“We are the fourth biggest firm in this area and with this Dynamic Infrastructure it puts us in line with the top three.”

The BX900 was released today in Europe and will be released in other markets around the world over the next few days.

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