Fujitsu intros PRIMERGY RX900 S1 x86 eight-socket rack server

href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/reselleralert/110072204.asp">Fujitsu
has announced the availability
of a new performance class of industry-standard servers, the new
PRIMERGY RX900 S1 x86 eight-socket rack server. The PRIMERGY RX900 S1
offers the
financial sector, public sector, and a broadening range of industries
with the high-levels of reliability for scale-up applications
previously dominated by expensive and proprietary RISC/Unix systems.
Its innovative 'glue-less' design combines with the service
offerings and solutions of Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures, plus
Intel Xeon 7500 processor series and the new Intel QuickPath
Interconnect technology.

With server virtualization now moving
into the mainstream, not to mention the consolidation of
resource-hungry or 'fat' virtual machines, demand is set to grow
significantly for flexible and reliable scale-up platforms that
deliver a quicker return on investment, such as the PRIMERGY RX900
S1. The proliferation of business intelligence, data warehousing
applications, plus other demanding high-performance back-end
databases, makes reliable scale-up performance crucial for a wide
range of business sectors. Centralized mission-critical corporate
workloads can be deployed on the RX900 S1 with peace-of-mind for
extreme performance requirements, as the rack server scales up on
demand inside a single 8 U chassis, and without the need for change
or re-arrangement of rack infrastructures. Processing power is
assured by up to 64 processor cores, up to 2 terabytes of main
memory, plus a highly-aggregated I/O bandwidth of more than 120
gigabytes. The platform also provides unprecedented operational
continuity as the high-availability functions of the RX900 S1
perfectly combines with the new reliability, availability, and
scalability functions of the Intel Xeon 7500 series processors. Driving
the computing performance and
speed of connectivity of Fujitsu's new eight-socket rack server is
an innovative 'glue-less' design, where no additional hardware is
necessary to run all eight CPUs, therefore providing the shortest
route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs. More often,
vendors simply 'glue together' multiple dual-socket server
blades, which leads to I/O bottlenecks.

Pallab Talukdar, CEO, Fujitsu India
said, “Two market trends are combining, which will drive the
success of the PRIMERGY RX900 S1. Server virtualization is moving
into the mainstream, while customers are reducing operational costs
by consolidating older dual- and quad-socket servers, and replacing
UNIX servers in favor of industry-standard flexibility and price
performance. The 'glue-less' design of the RX900 S1, and seamless
scale-up of processor, memory and I/O capacities — within a single
8U server box for added investment protection-makes it the most
compelling eight-core x86 server.”