Fujitsu Siemens Computers Raises the Bar for Data Center
Virtualization with vBlade Software
PRIMERGY BladeFrame Integrates Hypervisor Technology into PAN
Manager Software for Seamless Management of Physical and Virtual
Servers
Munich, November 14, 2006 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider,
today launched vBlade™ software, a new software add-on to the
PRIMERGY BladeFrame® system powered by Egenera®. vBlade
software introduces an entirely new way to manage both physical
servers and virtual machines by providing a single environment for
configuring, allocating, repurposing and managing both types of
resources, and eliminating the complexities associated with virtual
machine management.
A vBlade is a partition of a processing blade, also called
pBlade, which uses only a subset of the pBlade’s processors
and memory to establish a new, independent processing resource. Now
a data center manager is enabled to consolidate multiple server
workloads onto a single processing blade, including workloads based
on different operating systems. The first vBlade implementation
utilizes XenEnterprise™, a comprehensive virtualization
solution from XenSource, Inc.
With vBlade software, PRIMERGY BladeFrame customers can take
advantage of the same levels of high availability, N+1 failover,
disaster recovery, dynamic repurposing and other critical services
built into the PRIMERGY BladeFrame architecture for both virtual
and physical resources through PRIMERGY BladeFrame PAN
Manager™ software. Whether a customer is consolidating
hundreds of servers onto virtual blades or deploying the most
mission-critical applications on physical blades, Fujitsu Siemens
is the first to eliminate both the management complexity and
physical complexity plaguing enterprise datacenters today, by
providing a solution built to deliver agility and simplicity.
“Agility is the ability of an organization to sense
environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to
that change. However, no organization will be agile if its
datacenter and infrastructure aren’t,” said Tom
Bittman, vice president and Gartner Fellow at Gartner .
“Fujitsu Siemens Computers vision of the Dynamic Data
Center is to enable customers to implement a truly flexible
infrastructure that provides maximum efficiency at lowest cost. The
PRIMERGY BladeFrame delivers a full-virtualized, open platform that
specifically focuses on eliminating data center complexity. With
the introduction of vBlade, customers can now take advantage of the
benefits of virtual machine technology without adding another layer
of management or domain expert into their datacenters,” said
Dieter Herzog, executive vice president, Enterprise Products at
Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “This is a very different approach
than is being advocated by other vendors, who continue to add layer
upon layer of software, only adding to the chaos of complexity that
enterprises are trying to get away from.”
PRIMERGY BladeFrame servers powered by Egenera have always
been virtual assets that are deployed, managed and repurposed
quickly and simply. Rather than tie a specific operating system and
application to a server, Fujitsu Siemens Computers’s PAN
architecture creates pools of compute, storage and network
resources that can be easily shared and automatically repurposed
based on business priorities and service-level agreements. With the
introduction of vBlade technology, users can define pools of
physical and virtual blades, and deploy Fujitsu Siemens
Computers’s virtual servers on either physical or virtual
blades in the same exact manner, across the entire PAN –
including multiple BladeFrame systems – making the
provisioning of servers to physical or virtual blades simple. This
also provides easy failover, rapid scalability, load balancing and
disaster recovery on a larger scale.
“The proliferation of virtual machines during the next
decade will drive an explosion of complexity even greater than that
caused by distributed computing in the 90s,” said Vern
Brownell, Egenera founder and chief strategy officer.
“Meanwhile, other technologies – such as iSCSI, 10G
Ethernet and multi-core processing – are also coming on
strong. For IT, incorporating this juggernaut of solutions is a
monumental management challenge.”
Brownell continued, “The PAN architecture was
specifically developed to abstract and encapsulate complex
solutions such as virtual machines and eliminate their complexity
from users.”
vBlade: Extending the PAN Architecture
With vBlade software, virtual machines running on the
PRIMERGY BladeFrame system have automatic access to a complete
range of virtualization services, including N+1 automatic failover,
N+1 disaster recovery, resource pools, BladeFarms, suspend/resume,
live migration and other capabilities.
Pricing and Availability
vBlade technology will be priced as a separate add-on to the
Fujitsu Siemens Computers BladeFrame system. A preview release is
now available to Fujitsu Siemens Computers customers, and will
become generally available in the first half of 2007.
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About Egenera, Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering enterprise computing
solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure.
The Egenera BladeFrame system simplifies the datacenter with an
innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce
complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business
requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the
Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business
applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster
application time to market and lower total cost of ownership.
Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide.
For more information visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or
send email to
info@egenera.com.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos, BladeFrame and Processing
Blade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera Inc. in
the United States and/or other countries. All other product names,
service marks and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of
their respective owners.
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider
with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Dynamic Data
Center products, services and solutions. With a platform and
services portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from
handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure
solutions and services offerings. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a
presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and
Africa, with the services division extending coverage up to 170
countries worldwide. Leveraging the strengths, innovation and
global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens
AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers: large
corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users. To
meet international standards for corporate social responsibility,
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a member of the United Nations Global
Compact.
For further information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers,
please visit:
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
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