Feature Story

May 21, 2003

New small and mid sized PRIMEPOWER servers mean reliability and stability are no longer options.

The launch of the new workgroup and mid range PRIMEPOWER servers from Fujitsu sees the completion of work started over two years ago. That was to produce a range of UNIX® servers with the reliability and stability characteristics as developed over many years of mainframe manufacture. Starting with high-end Enterprise PRIMEPOWER this was achieved in conjunction with the announcement of SPARC™ V processors in October 2002.

Now the same technology has been transferred to workgroup and mid range systems of Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER range. This means all PRIMEPOWER servers have, as standard, levels of reliability and stability only previously possible with high-end systems.

The new PRIMEPOWER 250, 450, 650 and 850 models scale from 2 to 16 processors, and come with a range of autonomic (Note) and high availability features that complement the new high performance GHz class SPARC64™ V processors.

This level of robustness and flexibility will be a great boon for the use of smaller servers in the mission critical areas of Utility computing and other 24 x 7 environments.

Anywhere Anytime Availability

With Utility Computing you don't need to know where the resources you are using are located or configured. But it is very likely you need to know that they are available. This 24 x 7 operational paradigm is fundamental to the growth of businesses in the broadband Internet age. Central to this are platform components that can operate 24 x 7 at minimum cost. This is because many computers no longer just provide internal business support for a part of a company. They provide the interface to customers, suppliers and business partners. In other words they must always be "on". They must also operate at maximum performance and provide high levels of usage flexibility.