17th April 2007

Reliability and innovation herald a new UNIX server age

SPARC Enterprise maintains the innovation of SPARC/Solaris architecture by providing SPARC/Solaris continuity with enhanced features and performance. This new UNIX server - a combination of Fujitsu reliability technology and Sun Microsystems (Sun) innovation - provides a highly available computing platform, capable of adapting to rapid changes in the business environment and supporting evolution in enterprise computing.

Strategic IT investment for management efficiency

Many managers need to tackle efficiency improvement through better use of existing IT assets coupled with parallel IT cost reductions. At Fujitsu we see such consolidation as essential to our customer's business profitability.

But despite growing concern, server counts continue to rise, in part due to network technology improvements and the prevailing multi-tier system model that deploys specific servers to specific business roles. This however raises problems such as the inefficient use of resources, complicated server operation and expansion of maintenance costs.

SPARC Enterprise, provides optimal solutions for cost reduction, as well as providing a highly reliable environment for asset protection and server consolidation, for all Solaris users. SPARC Enterprise matches the widest variety of customer demands and fully activates all available server resources. Appropriate processors have been selected to match network throughput and business application demands. Scalability also ensures IT investment based on management strategies for server consolidation and business growth, brings the TCO reductions and needed management efficiencies.

Leveraging Fujitsu IT technology and enterprise development know-how

The high reliability and fault tolerance technologies implemented in SPARC Enterprise are state of the art. They not only take UNIX systems to another level, they also outperform even legacy enterprise systems that have been retained for their known high reliability. SPARC Enterprise reflects the DNA of 50 years of building and installing highly reliable business critical systems.

Important in ensuring reduced cost of ownership and the ability to consolidate services for reduced system administration, the high availability characteristics of SPARC Enterprise assure system operation even during hardware failure.

Customers familiar with PRIMEPOWER and its high levels of business continuity will be able to point to a further 320 enhancements in SPARC Enterprise based on their future enhancement requests. Included in these enhancements are performance improvements from new multi-core/multi-thread technology. New virtualization capabilities further improve resource utilization and allow combinations of hardware and software partitioning that surpass all previous technologies. These provide new levels of business continuity, service consolidation and improved return on investment.

SPARC Enterprise is the optimal solution for asset protection

SPARC/Solaris customers enthusiastically embraced PRIMEPOWER for its robust system availability and scalable performance. Based on that strong support, Fujitsu has continued to innovate and enhance the capabilities of UNIX severs, with enhanced reliability, flexibility and performance developments anticipating requirements well into the future.

In addition collaboration with Sun Microsystems has enabled much accelerated technological evolution on a global scale.

Now with a full line of high throughput servers, application platforms and data warehouse engines SPARC Enterprise provides more choice than ever for SPARC/Solaris customers.

Rapidly changing businesses, highly complex and diverse customer demands, can all be served by SPARC Enterprise. Its optimal solutions, world leading technologies and enterprise-class services will continues to present optimal solutions and, in most cases, best meet customer demands and support lowest possible ongoing costs.