ETERNUS3000 New Models - World's Highest Performance, Capacity and Connectivity

July 8, 2004

In today's business environment, corporate data is said to be increasing at 70% per year. ETERNUS3000 storage systems, as core units in Information Technology(IT) environment, must provide unparalleled reliability and processing performance to meet and manage the requirements of such huge data growth.

Since their release in November 2002, ETERNUS3000 storage systems have been shipping steadily, delivering open systems disk arrays to the global market. Already highly evaluated, from July 1st 2004 the ETERNUS3000 lineup has been refreshed with a new release of products. These have even more power and flexibility to address and respond to the rapidity of change in IT environments and business requirements.

ETERNUS3000 New Models - Features

Highest Performance

The top-of-the-range ETERNUS3000 model 700 now includes a high performance 3.2GHz processor to further speed processing within the storage system. To fully exploit this extra power, both the internal bus transfer-rate and cache memory transfer performance of ETERNUS 3000 model 700 have been doubled. This ensures all maximum bandwidth requirements are met. The combined result of these comprehensive performance enhancements is the world's-highest performance of 41,202 IOPS in the industry standard SPC Benchmark-1™.

ETERNUS3000 model 700 Achieves World's Record in SPC Benchmark-1™

High Capacity

Also for the first time in the industry, ETERNUS3000 is employing leading edge high-capacity 300GB FC disk drives. These enable ETERNUS3000 to not only provide a maximum of 72TBs of storage capacity but also better match the requirements of continuous data growth, storage consolidation, and increasing systems integration.

Connectivity Flexibility

In addition to Fibre Channel connectivity, ETERNUS3000, at this release, also supports iSCSI as a host interface. Now you can configure an IP-SAN utilizing your existing IP network. Meeting your system requirements is easier than ever, as ETERNUS3000 will let you configure the optimum, highly flexible FC-SAN or IP-SAN of choice.

ETERNUS3000 New Models - Lineup

The flagship ETERNUS3000 model 700 is a tour de force. This top of the range model is ideal for larger mission-critical and state-of-the-art scientific systems. It provides both a maximum capacity of 72TB and the world's highest performance. Mid-range models 500 and 300 have seen a 50% improvement in cost/performance, while their processing performance has been increased by 30 to 60%, compared to previous models. Finally the entry - level model 80, with redundant dual-controllers as standard, combines high availability at low-cost. Now there is a broad choice of optimum storage systems that really meet the harsh demands of today's system environments.

Summary

Fujitsu ETERNUS storage systems are developed based on research, and technology accumulated by Fujitsu in its commitment to mainframe and mission critical systems development and construction over many years. The range of advanced features and robust data protection found in ETERNUS3000 are examples of this dedication. ETERNUS3000 is an optimum storage system range that meets a wide variety of requirements including, high-speed backup/recovery, disaster recovery, software inter-working, as well as continuous 24x7 operation. Today you can share in this knowledge heritage by choosing ETERNUS storage systems for your data storage and management needs.

Related information:

• ETERNUS3000 storage system products information
• ETERNUS Evaluated as Excellent Storage Consolidation Solution