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AOK Health Insurance, Bremen/Germany"The CentricStor solution meets all our requirements at an attractive price, and we were provided with comprehensive consulting and flexible support."z/OS, BS2000/OSD
AIX, Solaris, Windows
NetWorker
Scalar i2000, LTO

Belgacom, Brussels/Belgium"CentricStor lets us virtualize our installed physical tape libraries to permit quick, reliable data backup and recovery."BS2000/OSD
HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows
NetWorker
STK 9310, STK 9840
IBM TS1120

Bundesagentur für Arbeit,
Nuremberg/Germany
"The consolidated tape backup infrastructure we were able to put in place with CentricStor is an invaluable advantage for us. And completely automated migration of data to the new libraries presented absolutely no problem."BS2000/OSD
Unix, Windows
NetWorker, BrightStor ARCserve
Scalar 10K, LTO

Caja Laboral, Mondragon/Spain"The move to consolidate to a single data protection solution for all systems means significant savings in terms of floor space, operating and maintenance costs for us, since we replaced the older mainframe tape virtualization and older tape libraries with it."MSP Mainframe
Solaris, Windows
NetWorker
STK L700, L1400, LTO
Press Clipping: Caja Laboral (Spanish)

Caja Madrid / Spain“Other offers were received, including ones from IBM and Sun Microsystems, but it was the CentricStor solution proposed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers that we selected in the end.”z/OS
AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows
Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM 3494, IBM TS1120
Press Clipping: Computerworld ESPANA

dbh Logistics IT AG, Bremen/Germany"When it comes to logistics, fast, reliable and economical transport is what counts. With our SX150 Business Server and CentricStor, we can offer our customers the same advantages for their data."CentricStor Smart Backup Unit
BS2000/OSD
Windows

Deutsche Rentenversicherung, Leipzig/Germany"We now handle twice the work with the same number of employees and the same budget. And the improvement in quality is noticeable: less downtime and greater reliability."BS2000/OSD
Linux, NAS
STK 9310, STK T10000

France Telecom / FranceVideo: Jean-Luc Lucas
CIO, Orange FT Group, France
6 Data Center with CentricStor mesh
Unix, Linux, Windows
Time Navigator, NetBackup
Scalar i2000, LTO
STK 9840, STK T10000

HSB Systemhaus GmbH,
Selb/Germany
"Fujitsu Siemens Computers completed consolidation and implementation of the new SAP infrastructure within only three months through extremely professional project management."FlexFrame for SAP infrastructure
Windows, VMware, Linux
NetWorker
Scalar i2000, Scalar 100, LTO

HVB Luxembourg, Luxembourg"CentricStor is a future-safe investment; it features excellent scalability that allows backup infrastructure expansion at any time, without any interruption of production."Unix, Windows
NetWorker, NSR-DBM-ORA
STK L1400, LTO

Informatikzentrum Niedersachsen, Hannover/Germany"CentricStor is an innovative virtual storage solution that allows us to organize our backups to be much more efficient and economical."z/OS, BS2000/OSD
Solaris
Tivoli Storage Manager
Scalar 10k, LTO
Read also: Virtual tape technology provides fast and high-available tape processing

ING DiBa AG / Germany "Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers outstanding backup and recovery solutions with its version of NetWorker and CentricStor."Solaris, Windows, Celerra
NetWorker, Module PLUS for Oracle
STK SL8500, LTO

Kraftfahrtbundesamt
Federal Motor Transport Authority
Flensburg/Germany
“Using CentricStor to back up data and handle tapes at our data center has enabled us to greatly reduce the hardware we use.”BS2000/OSD
Unix, Solaris, Windows
NetWorker
STK 9310, STK 9840, STK T10000
Read also: New storage landscape for traffic offender data

Lufthansa Systems,
Kelsterbach/Germany
"We were very impressed that the virtual tape solution made it possible to optimize the entire tape storage infrastructure, regardless of whether the server environment is based on UNIX, Windows or NAS filers.”AIX, HP-UX, Linux, NAS
Windows, Novell
NetBackup
STK SL8500, STK 9940

Munich Re, Munich/Germany"The complete solution implemented together with Fujitsu Siemens Computers covers all of our backup and restore needs and permits uniform use by both us and our holding company."Unix, Linux, Windows, NAS
NetWorker, NDMP
Scalar 10k, LTO
Read also: Data Backup as “Reinsurance”

Oberfinanzdirektion Magdeburg/GermanyThe Oberfinanzdirektion (higher financial directorate) of the city of Magdeburg opted for the virtual tape technology of Fujitsu Siemens Computers since the beginning in 1999.z/OS, BS2000/OSD
Solaris
Tivoli Storage Manager, NetWorker
Scalar 10k, Scalar 100, LTO
AML/2, IBM 3590
Read also: Virtual tape technology for all System Worlds

Océ Printing Systems GmbH, Poing/Germany"CentricStor and NetWorker backup software not only let us achieve significant improvement in data protection for our European operations, but is also more economical."z/OS, BS2000/OSD
Unix, Linux, Windows
NetWorker
Scalar i2000, LTO

Orange County Public Schools, Florida/USA "OCPS has concluded that the CentricStor solution will pay for itself in well under one year and generate ongoing savings for many years to come."z/OS
AIX, Windows
Tivoli Storage Manager, BackupExec
STK L700, LTO

Pension Insurance Institution, Vienna/Austria"CentricStor from Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the perfect data backup solution for us. Its unique connectivity lets us accommodate a wide range of servers and operating systems.”BS2000/OSD
Unix, Windows
Tivoli Storage Manager
STK

Postbank Systems AG,
Bonn-Frankfurt/Germany
„After evaluation of all possible vendor solutions we recognized that only the CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance from Fujitsu Siemens Computers could satisfy all our requirements“z/OS, BS2000/OSD
AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, Novell
Tivoli Storage Manager
STK 9310, STK 9940, STK T10000
Read also: Postbank Systems with failsave CentricStor and long distance tape redundancies

SAP Hosting / Germany"The operation of internal and external customer systems demands an agile and innovative storage strategy. We are developing this strategy together with Fujitsu Siemens Computers and implementing it as part of Managed Storage."Managed Services Storage
Managed Services Backup
Read also: Showing the way - flexibly
Video: Managed Storage (wmv, 29MB)

Sparda Datenverarbeitung,
Nuerenberg/Germany
"We are now ideally equipped to handle disaster scenarios since CentricStor's failsafe functionality guarantees uninterrupted data protection.”z/OS, z/Linux
AIX, HP-UX, Windows, NAS
Tivoli Storage Manager
STK SL8500, STK T10000

Stadt Köln
City of Cologne/Germany
Office for Information Processing
“With the modern, disaster-tolerant and extremely scalable SAN architecture implemented by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the city of Cologne has considerably improved municipal administration and can even offer its IT services to other cities and communities.”BS2000/OSD
Unix, Linux, Windows
Data Protector
Scalar 10k, LTO

Stadt Wuppertal
City of Wuppertal/Germany
Information and Communication Systems
"CentricStor really surprised us. Our backup is light years faster now, and we have a solution for our storage strategy on which we can build for years to come."BS2000/OSD
Unix, Linux, Windows
NetWorker
Scalar i2000, LTO
Read also: Virtual Tape Appliance serves all server environments

Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, Kamenz/Germany"CentricStor from Fujitsu Siemens Computers and NetWorker backup software facilitate an increase in throughput and capacity and combine high system availability with a high level of automation."z/OS
Unix, True64, Linux, Windows
NetWorker
STK 9310, STK 9940, STK T10000

Swisscom,
Bern-Lucerne/Switzerland
“This configuration provides us with the highest possible levels of business continuity. No comparable solution would have matched our current levels or redundancy, which automatically ensures uninterrupted access to our data - even in the event of a complete outage."Unix
NetWorker
Scalar i2000, LTO
Read also: Swisscom Mobile focus on failsave mirrored virtual tape solution
Video: Christian Kattenbusch
Head of common IT Services, Head of IP Networks, Swisscom AG/Switzerland

Weichelt GmbH Informationssysteme, Coburg/Germany"The automated operations enabled us to slash our total cost of ownership, while helping bring about considerable improvements in throughput and performance."BS2000/OSD
Scalar i2000, Scalar 100, LTO
Read also: Disaster-tolerant data center provides high security against unplanned system downtimes

Zeppelin / Germany"Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers innovative solutions with a good price-performance ratio plus the technological expertise it takes to achieve seamless integration into a heterogeneous environment."z/OS
AIX, Windows
Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM 3584, LTO


Revision: September 25, 2008