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PART A – PRIMEQUEST CUSTOMER REFERENCE

Among the many customers who have deployed PRIMEQUEST servers are the following:

Legacy Modernization

  • NTT DATA Corporation (Japan) / Mission-critical open system (PORTOMICS) verification server
  • THE SHIGA BANK, LTD. (Japan) / Next generation strategic management system
  • THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (Japan) / Financial hub system
  • TKC Corporation (Japan)
  • Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (Japan) / TSE derivatives trading system

Database Systems

  • Banco Popular (Spain)
  • Circle K Sunkus Co., Ltd. (Japan) / Information Analysis System
  • Coput (Spain)
  • SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Japan) / Consolidated database system
  • Sung-Ae Hospital (Korea) / Medical information, electronic medical record system
  • TO SOLUTIONS CO., LTD. (Japan) / Server consolidation for Q.P. Group
  • Vodafone K.K. (Japan) / Sales support system

ERP Platform

  • KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC. (Japan) / SAP system for Konica Minolta Group

HPC System

  • FDK CORPORATION (Japan) / CAE system
  • Research Center for Computational Science, Okazaki Research Facilities, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan) / Super high performance molecular simulator
  • TOYOTA CENTRAL R&D LABS., INC. (Japan) / CAE system
  • National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Japan) / Main computer system

PART B – TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

Models PRIMEQUEST 580 PRIMEQUEST 540 PRIMEQUEST 520
* Figures listed are maximum for asterisked specifications.
Operating System Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® AS (v.4 for Itanium)
SUSE™ Linux® Enterprise Server 9, 10 for Itanium Processor Family
Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Datacenter Edition for Itanium-based Systems
CPU* Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 9050/9020 (1.6GHz/1.42GHz)
Sockets/Cores* 32/64 16/32 8/16
Memory* 2TB 1TB 256GB
Chipset* Fujitsu-developed chipset
Internal HDD* 32 16 8
Integrated LAN Ports* 32 16 4
SCSI Ports* 16 8 None
PCI Ports* 128 64 20
Partitions* 16 8 4

PART C – Partner Quotes

EDS Corporation, Tom Egan, Vice President, Global Service Delivery

The new PRIMEQUEST servers are ideal for mission-critical applications which demand high availability, robust performance, enhanced flexibility and optimum resource usage. The next-generation of PRIMEQUEST servers with the highly-anticipated Intel Itanium 2 processor will deliver an advanced system for large-scale database and online transaction processing environments, legacy modernization, and database/server consolidation.

Microsoft Corporation, Bill Laing, General Manager, Windows Server Division

We are excited that the PRIMEQUEST 500 series will offer our mutual customers increased performance and reliability for mission critical database and line of business applications. As customers migrate from mainframes to open systems, Microsoft and Fujitsu are working together to provide enterprise customers with an ideal server solution, ensuring high availability and business continuity.

Novell Inc., Roger Levy, Vice President and General Manager of Open Platforms Solutions

Novell is excited about the launch of new Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500 series servers. Designed to handle customers' mission-critical workloads in the data center, our SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on new Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers will offer an open, scalable, high-performance data center solution that comes with application security, virtualization and integrated systems management.

Red Hat Inc., Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and General Manager of Enterprise Products

Red Hat and Fujitsu have collaborated closely to optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Fujitsu servers and to provide world-class support and services to enterprise customers for years. We believe that the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the new Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500 series servers will deliver reliable, secure, high-performance Linux solutions built on the benefits of open source, and will satisfy mission-critical computing needs to the enterprise.

Oracle Corporation, Judson Althoff, Vice President, Platform Alliances

The combination of Oracle and the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers let companies operate cost-effectively by taking advantage of industry-standard solutions while achieving high performance and reliability. Oracle believes this new PRIMEQUEST server will enhance reliability, availability and scalability, and will expand with Oracle the customers' choice of business critical IT deployment.

Symantec Corporation, Rob Soderbery, Senior Vice President, Data Center Management Group

Symantec is pleased to support the announcement of Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500 series servers. Symantec's Datacenter Foundation solutions combined with PRIMEQUEST server hardware delivers high availability and high performance while increasing the reliability of mission critical applications. Together, Fujitsu and Symantec can help enterprise customers reduce data center complexity and total cost of ownership.