Fujitsu Siemens Computers partners with VMware to strengthen IT infrastructure consolidation offer

- Agreement to resell VMware ESX Server to support consolidation and partitioning on eight-way PRIMERGY T850 Intel-based server

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced an agreement with VMware to resell the company's VMware ESX Server virtual machine software to support consolidation and partitioning on its powerful eight-way PRIMERGY T850 Intel-based servers. The agreement is a key part of Fujitsu Siemens Computers' Business Critical Computing approach, and builds on the company's central cross-platform strategy for IT infrastructure consolidation. In the Intel-based server sector, the company's PRIMERGY T850 is the key product for consolidation, and the agreement will see Fujitsu Siemens Computers supporting VMware ESX Server as a standard system software product.
 
The objective is to replace the large inherited base of individual servers built up over the years by fewer but more powerful servers. The strategy aims to ensure that different architectures interwork as efficiently as possible, in order to bring about the maximum benefit for users. In the Intel-based server sector, the PRIMERGY T850 is the key product for consolidation.
 
As part of the agreement, VMware has worked with Fujitsu Siemens Computers to support the company's ServerView server management software in the recently released version of VMware's ESX Server software. In addition, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has become a member of the VMware Preferred Hardware Partner Program. As a member, VMware will certify the Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY T850 server to ensure compatibility for use with VMware software. Testing and certification has also been completed for a specific T850 server consolidation configuration, including SAN storage subsystems connected via FibreChannel.
 
"Consolidation is a key part of Fujitsu Siemens Computers' overall Business Critical Computing approach. Highly scalable, highly reliable enterprise-class servers such as the PRIMERGY T850 allow applications and infrastructure services that are currently running on dedicated servers to be consolidated on fewer servers," commented Mel Taylor, Marketing Director for Fujitsu Siemens Computers in the UK. "IT infrastructure consolidation with virtual machines such as VMware ESX Server helps increase the effective utilisation of overall system resources - leading to lower maintenance costs and downtime, lower TCO across the server infrastructure as well as a faster return on investment for organisations implementing new server infrastructures."
 
With VMware ESX Server, multiple configurations based on different operating systems can co-exist on a single dedicated hardware infrastructure. This provides additional, valuable features that significantly help in key enterprise tasks such as software development and testing, improving the software lifecycle management of legacy applications, and the smooth migration of legacy applications.
 
Pairing the PRIMERGY T850 server with VMware ESX Server gives enterprise customers a way to run a wide variety of applications in virtual machines running their own operating systems. This allows different virtual machines to share resources selectively. Resources can also be assigned to individual virtual machines on a dedicated, exclusive basis, thereby making maximum use of all the resources a server has available.
 
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European computer company, drawing on the strengths and the innovative power of its parent companies - Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG. Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers a full range of solutions for enterprise computing, from best-in-class Intel- and Unix-based servers to a comprehensive portfolio of storage systems. The company is also a leading provider of secure mobile computing products, PCs and workstations to business customers, and the number one supplier of computers for home users in Europe.
 
The company's strategic direction is focused on Mobility and Business Critical Computing. With its vision of 'Powering the Information Age', Fujitsu Siemens Computers' world-class computer technology and innovative IT infrastructure solutions help people to access information and services anywhere and at any time.

 
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