Feature Story

October 2, 2002

Meeting the needs of "Mission Critical Computing" .

As computer systems have migrated away from the traditional mainframe, the trade-off has usually been improved flexibility, lower costs but a reduction in security, system stability and availability. But in today's Internet age, computers no longer just provide internal business support for a part of the company. As well as meeting the needs of "mission critical" business applications they must now provide the major interfaces to customers, suppliers and business partners. In other words they must be always be "on," operate at full power and provide high levels of usage flexibility. Plus they must also have the right levels of service security to protect the company's most important business transactions.

The requirement is server platforms that not only run all the most popular enterprise software - at peak efficiency, but also have mainframe levels of redundancy, security and engineering excellence to deliver peace of mind to the most demanding CIO.

Given today's business pressures of:
1. Accelerated Business Cycles
2. Demands for cost reductions
3. New business opportunity options
4. Global business Management

CIOs are being tasked with:
1. Optimizing their network based computing model
2. Providing flexibility to meet unpredictable demand
3. Having the scalability for future growth while
4. Operating on a 24 x 7 basis

Fujitsu has met this challenge head-on by taking it's over 30 years of expertise in mainframe and high performance computing and applying it to its latest highly scalable Solaris™ Operating Environment (Solaris OE) PRIMEPOWER servers.

A new standard in servers.

Adding to the networking and application portfolio capabilities of the open Solaris OE New PRIMEPOWER has: Mainframe system reliability and redundancy Super computer scalability and performance And unprecedented levels of Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) built into the latest Fujitsu developed 1.35GHz SPARC64™ V processor.

The result is PRIMEPOWER achieves three times the reliability of the average server in the UNIX marketplace. Plus the advanced cross-bar (system bus) technology enables both the world's largest scalability (up to 128 processors per server) while enabling maximum performance to be achieved from the new processors and (importantly for investment protection) even higher clocking processors yet to come.