BladeFrame: Virtual Server Pool Solution in Productive Use at
T-Systems
Similar installations at the Frankfurt and Prague locations
in the e-service area
Munich, July 10, 2006 —Today, Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced that T-Systems is
now operating its e-service area platform on a PRIMERGY BladeFrame
powered by Egenera system. T-Systems customers utilize this
platform for their e-mail systems, e-shops, Internet portals and
data warehouse applications. PRIMERGY BladeFrame supports the B2B
services platform with flexible IT resources which adapt themselves
dynamically to changing requirements. T-Systems customers profit
from the installation in the T-Systems data centers, which are
linked via fast, flexible networks. As a result, T-Systems can
provide its customers with the fast, flexible, reliable and
affordable services operated on Internet and intranet servers as
well as corresponding server-based applications. In addition,
T-Systems customers can now take advantage of on-demand services in
their intranets.
E-service area based on PRIMERGY BladeFrame
T-Systems decided to use the enterprise server solution from
Fujitsu Siemens Computers, since the system fulfills the
requirements for short-term cost reduction and at the same time
represents a step towards the realization of the company’s
long-term strategic vision of a flexible and responsive data center
infrastructure. The flexible T-Systems IP transport platform is
combined with cost-effective infrastructure, hosting and
application solutions from individual data centers in the e-service
area. The BladeFrame technology and the MPLS (multi-protocol label
switching) network connection also help to reduce costs.
“PRIMERGY BladeFrame helps us to provide our customers
with e-service area services in a quick, reliable and fail-safe
fashion. For many of the enterprises we serve, the improved service
quality and more efficient IT are decisive criteria in selecting
e-service area services. Of course, cost savings also play an
important role. So far, customers have been able to save up to 30%
of costs over their own operations. At the same time, they benefit
from a high-availability solution instead of a single server and
can also, within a matter of minutes, utilize an additional server
for business intelligence applications or for intranet or Internet
services,” explains Ulrich Kemp, responsible for handling
business with major and medium-sized enterprises at T-Systems.
Cross-application server virtualization
As part of an exclusive, strategic OEM arrangement with
Egenera, Inc., Fujitsu Siemens Computers integrated the Egenera
BladeFrame solution into the PRIMERGY server product line. As a
result, the company enables its customers to increase not only the
productivity of their IT infrastructures, but also the flexibility
and economic efficiency of the dynamic data center.
PRIMERGY BladeFrame is an Enterprise class system. Equipped
with x86 processors, the system can support three operating
systems. The special feature of this solution is its sophisticated
virtualization technology, which allows for virtual server
resources across several applications. A BladeFrame system
implements a pool of anonymous servers which can be defined
virtually and separates the processor, network and storage
components from each other. As a result, the server hardware,
operating systems (Linux/Windows/Solaris) and application software
are fundamentally independent of each other, thus creating a
dynamic pool of computing resources. Operating systems and
applications can be flexibly allocated or removed as required.
In addition, RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Microsoft Windows and
Sun Solaris can run on a single PRIMERGY BladeFrame –on both
AMD and Intel-based blades.
This solution provides special advantages in heterogeneous
application environments. It maximizes IT system flexibility and
improves the responsiveness of the IT infrastructure in line with
changing business requirements. Since the servers can be reassigned
without any effort, this increases your capacity – which in
turn reduces costs. Thanks to the virtual architecture, blade
servers used for batch processing overnight can be used for
transactions during the day.
PRIMERGY BladeFrame also enables you to configure
applications with little extra effort while maintaining high
availability. The virtualization of hard drives and networks
combined with the option to freely allocate and replace CPU
resources makes the backup servers, redundant network and memory
connections and complex clustering software required by traditional
HA deployments unnecessary. The N+1 failover implemented to ensure
high availability in hardware can also be used at the system level
to enable disaster recovery. The mirroring function makes it
possible to back up several BladeFrames in different locations on a
single BladeFrame.
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