Vendor Highlight: Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers bring all the advantages of open systems into the enterprise data center, enabling companies to consolidate and scale Linux and Windows applications virtually without limit, and to maintain levels of availability and utilization commonly associated with traditional mainframe environments. Flexible partitioning, built-in redundancy, system mirroring and advanced error containment deliver an exceptionally solid foundation for mission-critical applications.
With modular expansion up to 32 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and up to 2 TB of memory, Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers scale to support efficient consolidation of the most demanding enterprise applications. Independent Linux and Windows environments can run in up to 16 electrically isolated partitions, and CPU and I/O resources can be independently and dynamically adjusted to match changing workload requirements. Customers gain the cost and flexibility benefits of open systems, along with the high resource utilization characteristic of traditional mainframe solutions.
These systems are as robust as they are flexible. In addition to hardware redundancy, all addressing, data bus and memory operations can be duplicated for operational redundancy-and errors can be isolated without halting the system. With this unique combination of flexibility and built-in redundancy, 99.999 percent and higher availability can be readily achieved, and even maintenance downtime can be reduced by up to 90 percent compared with typical industry levels.
