Fujitsu today announces the introduction of its new, comprehensive line-up of Integrated Systems for the data center, helping ICT managers to make immediate progress in focusing on end-user needs in a move towards the data center becoming more business centric. Fujitsu Unveils Major Step Towards Business-centric Data Center with a Comprehensive Line-up of Integrated Systems.

Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President, Product Development Group, Fujitsu (photo) said, “Quite simply, the introduction of Silicon Photonics-based technology means that businesses can be confident that their ICT departments will be able to service bigger, better, faster and more needs than ever before. As a result, Fujitsu envisages that the data center of the future will become much more of a technology enabler for business velocity. The introduction of disruptive technology such as Silicon Photonics-based systems creates new opportunities for environments where the ability to process large volumes of data has, until now, been a major bottleneck.”

New Integrated Systems Family

With a focus on growing and consolidating its portfolio for the data center, Fujitsu is launching a new, streamlined family of validated Integrated Systems, comprised of straightforward reference architectures and pre-integrated ready-to-run systems. Thanks to pre-validation, these systems guarantee the compatibility of all their components, including servers and operating systems, storage, network, and system management.

And a Next-generation data center technology due in 2015 : Silicon Photonics. Fujitsu is working with Intel to use the disruptive technology of Silicon Photonics to develop next-generation technology for the data center, which increase the throughput of system data by a 50-fold factor and reduce system latency. Today, typical server configurations tend to overprovision functionality and underutilize resources. Fujitsu Silicon Photonics-based systems – expected to be commercially available within the next 12 months – will change the way enterprises build and operate data centers.

Rapid deployment

The new Fujitsu Integrated Systems line-up starts with simple general-purpose infrastructures and general purpose platforms for middleware and is topped by systems for purpose-built application integration. All reduce complexity and risk by offering more rapid deployment times without trial-and-error testing. Once in place, Integrated Systems are providing faster payback periods since they optimize resource utilization for complex environments such as in-memory applications like SAP HANA, which are compute, networking and storage-intensive :

• Wide and comprehensive selection of Integrated Systems for added flexibility in the data center
• Ready-to-run systems for fast deployment and reference architectures tailored to use-case scenarios
• High throughput, light speed Silicon Photonics-based systems on the drawing board for 2015

Best in class & best of breed

Fujitsu’s Integrated Systems portfolio combines the company’s own powerful PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST servers and ETERNUS and NetApp FAS storage platforms with best-of-breed third-party technologies, to create solutions built from best-in-class components. Building on a long heritage of Integrated Systems such as FlexFrame for SAP environments, Fujitsu is now broadening its portfolio, and takes the guesswork out of getting system configuration right first time, every time, by offering comprehensive installation guidelines and configuration descriptions as standard for its Integrated Systems.

With its new line-up, Fujitsu has created eight different principal use cases for Integrated Systems – from SAP, and Microsoft environments through to systems designed for big data, IT security, server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, private cloud and high-performance computing. For each, Fujitsu offers a range of solutions, with brands including FlexFrame, RapidStructure and vShape.

For organizations looking for the next level of integration for reference architectures, Fujitsu also offers optional pre-installation in a system staging center, which ensures that reference architectures are ready-to-run immediately from delivery on customer premises.

Be up-to-date, manage all

In making the move to Integrated Systems, organizations potentially face new complexity in keeping entire systems up-to-date. This issue is addressed with Fujitsu Lifecycle Management services, a service package that manages all components within the Integrated System, through their entire lifecycle. Customers can also choose to hand over the entire responsibility for operating and maintaining their systems by choosing Fujitsu Data Center Services such as Managed Data Center, Managed Hosting and Fujitsu Cloud IaaS.