Fujitsu's PRIMERGY BX400 opens up blade computing for mid-size companies

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has recently announced the global availability
of blade server technology designed especially for smaller and
mid-size businesses that are looking for scalable efficiencies and
consolidation. The new PRIMERGY BX400 is a fully-featured blade
system built from the ground up as a user-friendly and versatile
infrastructure, designed for mid-sized customers with large computing
and storage requirements, including branch offices.

The PRIMERGY BX400 is a green datacenter in a box,
providing an optimum combination of up to eight server or storage
blades in a small enclosure, supported by a comprehensive set of
solutions and services. It combines leading-edge technology, such as
a fully integrated virtual storage appliance using technology from
Fujitsu's partnership with NetApp, with impressive input/output
flexibility and bandwidth known from the PRIMERGY BX900 'Dynamic
Cube' blade system introduced last year. Easy to install and
manage, the PRIMERGY BX400 allows companies to spend less time on
set-up and management and instead focus on the core business
processes essential for profitability. Simplified lifecycle
management reduces daily operational costs by up to 60 percent. Like
all PRIMERGY servers, the BX400 ships with Fujitsu's ServerView
software suite, allowing easy and integrated system management and
monitoring. Additional software components such ServerView Resource
Coordinator VE and Virtual IO Manager deliver uniform operations for
pools of physical and virtual servers combined with cost-effective
high availability.

The consolidated design makes the PRIMERGY BX400 more
affordable than other blade servers on the market, while saving
office space. Mehul Doshi, Country Manager-Enterprise Servers,
Fujitsu India said, “Mid-size companies with large data volumes
have similar IT needs to enterprises, but are more constrained by
available IT expertise and budgets. The PRIMERGY BX400 is a complete
dynamic infrastructure of up to eight server and storage blades as
well as network components supplemented with Fujitsu services
extended into the cloud with Dynamic Services. Its small size is
ideally suited for mid-sized companies with big computing and storage
needs, needing no specialized power, cooling, or IT expertise.”

Fujitsu's comprehensive PRIMERGY server blade
portfolio can host the full range of applications in both physical
and virtualized environments, equipped as they are with the latest
Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and large memory capacities.
Fujitsu offers a fully integrated virtual storage appliance in
combination with PRIMERGY server blades servers, plus a connection to
the cloud to expand customers' on-site infrastructure capabilities
with quick and easy access to individually configured server, storage
and backup resources.