More Flexibility, Manageability and Serviceability for Mission-Critical Computing with New Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers

Singapore, July 28, 2011

Fujitsu today announces a major step forward as x86-based servers continue to move into the arena of mission-critical computing. Providing enterprises with new datacenter economics in comparison to legacy RISC/UNIX systems, Fujitsu today introduces new PRIMERGY x86 servers that set a new benchmark in terms of transactional database performance.

The proliferation of business intelligence, data warehousing applications and other demanding high-performance back-end databases make reliable scale-up server performance crucial for a wide range of business sectors. Demand continues to grow significantly for flexible, stable scale-up platforms that deliver a quicker return on investment.

Immediate availability¹ of the world-record breaking Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 eight-socket rack server and the PRIMERGY RX600 S6 four-socket rack server removes the performance difference that has previously tied enterprises to more expensive and proprietary server systems. With the new generation of PRIMERGY servers, Fujitsu is entering a new high end performance class for x86 servers – providing customers with unbeatable flexibility, manageability and serviceability as datacenter needs inevitably change or grow.

The PRIMERGY RX900 S2 offers many industries, notably the financial and public sectors, the high-levels of reliability for running scale-up applications that was previously dominated by expensive and proprietary RISC/UNIX systems. When paired with the lower price point PRIMERGY RX600 S6, which is designed for customers in the upper-mid-market as well as large enterprises, Fujitsu is showing enterprises a clear path for easily managed and serviced performance scale-up.

The new PRIMERGY models feature Fujitsu’s ‘glue-less’ design, meaning that no additional hardware is necessary to run all eight CPUs. Based on Intel QuickPath Interconnect Technology, this design helps avoid I/O bottlenecks by providing the shortest route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs. As a result, the new systems deliver mission-critical peace-of-mind at an affordable price. Seamless scale-up is also a hallmark of PRIMERGY models, since processor, memory and I/O components can all be upgraded, leaving organizations with headroom for cost-effective future growth without having to rebuild entire racks or purchase new systems.

Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President Product Development Group at Fujitsu Technology Solutions says: “This new generation of x86 servers is taking Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers into a different league. The steady erosion of UNIX server market share by x86-based systems will now accelerate. Fujitsu’s new breed of scale-up PRIMERGY servers are proving themselves equally capable of the heavy lifting required in high-end datacenter environments, while also setting new, radically lower price points for mission-critical computing.”

World-record breaking performance from PRIMERGY RX900 S2
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) ranks at launch the PRIMERGY RX900 S2 as the top TPC-E performing server system². According to the TPC-E rankings, Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY servers are not only consistently among the most powerful servers in the world, but also repeatedly offer among the best price-performance.

Centralized mission-critical corporate workloads can be deployed reliably on the PRIMERGY RX900 S2 for extreme performance requirements. Processing power is assured by using up to 8 Intel Xeon E7-8800 CPUs providing 80 processor cores, up to 4TB of main memory, plus a highly-aggregated I/O bandwidth of more than 100 gigabytes. The RX600 S6 four- socket server provides up to 40 processor cores using the new Intel Xeon E7-4800 processor generation and supports up to 2TB of main memory.

The PRIMERGY RX900 S2 provides unprecedented operational continuity as its high-availability functions perfectly combine with the new reliability-, availability-, and scalability functions of the Intel Xeon E7-8800 series processor. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) defines transaction processing and database benchmarks to independently evaluate the power and performance of modern On-line Transaction Processing (OLTP) Systems.