Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited

KGI Asia Bonds with Fujitsu to Boost Return on Investments in IT Infrastructure

Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER server and ETERNUS storage system support KGI Asia's long-term growth with greater performance, availability and reliability

Hong Kong, October 4, 2004 — Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited, a leading provider of customer-focused information technology and telecommunications (IT & T) solutions and services, today announced that KGI Asia Limited has upgraded its computing capability with Fujitsu's leading-edge IT infrastructure. The enhanced platform will offer greater system performance and reliability to support KGI's service proliferation and business expansion in Hong Kong and mainland China.

KGI Asia is one of Hong Kong's largest equity brokers by market share and a top 10 future broker in the territory. By deploying Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER 650 Solaris™ server and ETERNUS3000 model 400 storage system, KGI further improves its brokerage transaction speed and back-end settlement efficiency to realize its growth strategy in the Hong Kong and mainland markets. The new IT infrastructure runs KGI's mission-critical, back-office settlement and repository Gloss system, financial accounting system and other in-house developed solution modules. The new solution demonstrates a superior return on investment (ROI) with escalated performance, extended scalability and improved manageability.

The Fujitsu's solution meets KGI's highly demanding computing requirements in three areas:

• Competitive price/performance ratio: Blending the world's fastest bus technology and powerful SPARC64™ processor, PRIMEPOWER 650 provides unparalleled system performance at a highly competitive price. The server speeds up KGI's back office day-end batch cycles by three times, enabling the brokerage firm to achieve higher level of operation efficiency and offer maximum flexibility in computing resources management.
• Smooth system migration: The PRIMEPOWER family is fully compatible with the Solaris™ operating system as is demonstrated by its ability to deliver world record performance in various benchmarking tests. Designed for the robust Solaris™ environment, the Fujitsu solution supports KGI's computing-intensive, mission-critical business applications with no transitional hassle.
• Improved ROI: The Fujitsu solution offers unique advantages in performance, reliability and serviceability that ensure minimum business interruption and maintenance support. The rack-optimized design of PRIMEPOWER 650 also offers excellent space savings by 4 times compared to the substituted server unit, enabling further cost savings in data center rental.

"It has always been our vision to become a truly customer-centered organization by providing our retail and institutional clients with value-added and highly efficient brokerage services," said Andrew Wu, Associate Director of Information Technology, KGI Asia Ltd. "We foresee tremendous demand in our computing requirement as we start rolling out new services and pushing into the mainland market. The upgraded IT infrastructure from Fujitsu delivers the cost and flexibility benefits we were looking for, while providing a proven path to scale up our computing resources as our customer base and data volume continue to expand."

"We are delighted to be selected by KGI on their IT infrastructure upgrade. Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER server and ETERNUS storage solution deliver the leading performance and flexibility for customers like KGI to help mitigate risk, improve overall system and business performance, and increase the company's agility - all part of achieving a proven return on investment in IT infrastructure," said James Pang, General Manager, Sales Department of Information Systems and Services Division, Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited. "As KGI continues to expand, the company can be confident that Fujitsu's solution will reliably grow with them to meet their most demanding workload requirements."

The Fujitsu IT Infrastructure

• PRIMEPOWER 650 server
  Based on the 64-bit RISC SPARC64 V processor 14.08 GB per second Crossbar bandwidth, this midrange server provides high reliability and performance for a wide range of applications including high-traffic conditions encountered by the Internet and mission-critical business tasks. The high reliability of this system matches mainframe standards in design and configuration with advanced redundant and hot swappable features, achieving a 99.999% availability that ensure the system continues to run without interruption in case of failure.
• ETERNUS3000 model 400 storage system
  The rack mount system provides high performance and high scalability - up to 240 disk drives can be flexibly mounted for a total of 35 terabyte of storage capacity. The system also includes high reliability design, availability and high data security features such as Data Guard that guarantees data consistency with dedicated technology that ensures data read/write integrity. All components in ETERNUS3000 have redundant configuration to further protect data and achieve maximum system availability.

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About KGI Asia Limited

Being one of Hong Kong's largest equity brokers by market share and one of the ten largest futures brokers, KGI Asia Limited operates a full-service brokerage firm for retail and institutional clients, aiming to provide customers with one-stop financial service. Its brokerage activities include equities, bonds, over-the-counter structured products and advisory services. KGI Asia Limited also offers margin trading facilities as well as futures and options for more sophisticated clients. With the acquisition of Seapower Securities Limited and Seapower Futures Limited in June 1999, KGI Asia Limited now has a total of four offices and branches in Hong Kong.
At the forefront of technological change, KGI Asia Limited has actively embraced online trading, and its customers generate one of the largest internet trading volumes in Hong Kong. KGI's clients are able to trade in markets across the region and around the world.

About Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited

Fujitsu Hong Kong, a leading technology company, is one of the largest providers of customer-focused information technology and telecommunications (IT & T) solutions and services for organizations in Hong Kong. With more than 50 years of experience and as part of the Fujitsu Group-a global family of IT & T infrastructure experts-Fujitsu Hong Kong extends its expertise across the enterprise and around the region. Fujitsu Hong Kong is able to support and optimize world-class IT & T infrastructure for organizations in the region that require to gain a global and competitive edge needed for a sustainable future. Major customers include Government of HKSAR, Cathay Pacific Airlines, PCCW, and more.
For more information, please see: http://hk.fujitsu.com

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