PRIMERGY BladeFrame – Virtualized server pool for dynamic IT services
PRIMERGY BladeFrame: a summary
What enterprise wouldn’t want to have IT that can hold its own with the business at all times? New business opportunities could be leveraged more quickly, the day-to-day business would be sure to always have optimal capacity, the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes would improve, and more economical IT would make an important contribution to the success of the enterprise.
With PRIMERGY BladeFrame powered by Egenera, Fujitsu Siemens Computers clears the way for highly responsive enterprise IT. PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF200 and BF400 are identical in construction to the respective Egenera servers Bladeframe ES and EX and therefore are 100% compatible to each other.
The solution features a service-oriented infrastructure, the innovative Processing Area Network (PAN), which radically eliminates the complexity of traditional infrastructures. Thanks to the simplification, separation and sharing of resources, IT departments have experienced enormous gains in agility and efficiency. Applications can be deployed within a matter of minutes, instead of weeks, and investment costs and the total cost of ownership can be demonstrably reduced by 50 percent.
PRIMERGY BladeFrame is a service-oriented infrastructure in which processing, network and resource management are integrated and ready for use. The best of two worlds is combined in PRIMERGY BladeFrame – the kind of administration functions that are valued in the mainframe world with a blade-type processing architecture, based on industry standards. This makes the solution a “Dynamic Data Center™ in the box“ that goes far beyond traditional blade architectures and presents a completely new approach to utilizing IT.
The integration of the PRIMERGY BladeFrame PAN architecture in the Dynamic Data Center™ strategy is another stage on the road to a new generation of IT infrastructures. The significant improvements they bring about for IT operations in key areas are evidenced by the Dynamic IT solutions from Fujitsu Siemens Computers being successfully deployed. Furthermore, they make clear that IT departments are completely redefining their position in the enterprise with the gradual implementation of the Dynamic Data Center™. They actively shape business processes and can utilize considerably more resources for innovation, thanks to extremely economical IT operations.
