Fujitsu Debuts World's Most Scalable and Powerful Storage Systems
Announcement posted by Fujitsu Australia Limited 02 Jul 2015
New ETERNUS DX enterprise storage solutions provide data centers with headroom for unpredictable data growth up to 14 petabytes
Sydney, 2 July 2015 – Fujitsu is enabling enterprises to push beyond the boundaries of unpredictable data growth into the double-digit petabyte range, with the introduction of the new Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3. Massively scalable, the new flagship of the ETERNUS DX family is purpose-built for enterprises that demand outstanding storage peak performance of up to 4 million Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and a huge capacity of up to 14 petabytes, paired with enterprise-class resiliency and always-on availability.
As storage-capacity planning becomes more unpredictable, businesses are demanding greater flexibility in scaling storage systems. The need to balance higher service level requirements for hosting corporate business data while minimising total cost of ownership is demanding a new kind of storage architecture. Based on the most flexible pay-as-you-grow architecture on the market, these new systems allow data center customers to build up storage capacity ‘just in time’ – putting an end to over-provisioning and large upfront investments.
Fujitsu’s new enterprise storage systems are also differentiated by unique automation and zero-downtime functions that set a new milestone in business-critical storage by guaranteeing maximum system utilisation and contributing to a faster return on investment. With automated quality of service management, system performance levels can be allocated according to business priorities. This technology can also be used to support service level management for virtual servers. The brand new system architecture can cope with multiple component failures without any interruption to service. In conjunction with the unique transparent failover feature – ETERNUS Storage Cluster – non-stop operation despite a complete system or site failure is guaranteed.
Kenichi Sakai, Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise System Business Unit at Fujitsu, says: “Fujitsu is taking the lead in enterprise storage by delivering new dimensions of scalability, flexibility, automation and business continuity to underpin business-centric storage services. The new top-of-the-range systems, ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and ETERNUS DX8900 S3, are packed with innovations that will improve data management combined with greater efficiency resulting in future-proof platforms for storage consolidation in the data center.”
Marcus Jewell, Vice President, EMEA at Brocade, said: “Businesses of all sizes and across all sectors are currently experiencing incredible growth in data volumes, driven largely by the rapid proliferation in connected devices which is predicted to hit 20 billion within the next five years. If IT departments are to deal effectively with this exponential growth, a new approach to IT infrastructure is needed; one that will give them flexibility and scalability from data center to device. We’re confident that ETERNUS DX in combination with Brocade’s leading network technologies will provide a complete solution for the next generation of data service in data center storage. We believe it will play a key part in this new kind of agile and robust infrastructure, giving customers a significant competitive advantage in the years ahead.”
Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Analyst, Storage at IDC says: "In today's highly virtualised and mixed workload environments, enterprises can benefit from using scale-out storage architectures that enable them to linearly scale capacity and/or performance independent of each other while keeping management simple and costs low. Large enterprises - with their no-compromise requirement around performance, resilience, quality of service management, high availability and reliability – are likely to rely on newer, more scalable iterations of established enterprise storage systems for their business-critical workloads.”
The ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 solutions are perfect for consolidating data all into one system, such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and large-scale databases, file services, business-critical applications and business analytics and/or Big Data. They also provide ample capacity for any demanding virtualization environments. Extensive high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities make ETERNUS DX enterprise models the ideal storage systems for all business-critical data, and they fit perfectly in the private and public cloud environments of large-scale enterprises and service providers.
Pricing and availability
The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 will be globally available from August 1, 2015 via direct sales and certified channel partners. Prices vary by configuration and region.
Notes to editors
ETERNUS DX8900 S3
Architecture: Scale-out
Storage controllers: 2 - 24
Maximum storage capacity: 13,824 TB
Maximum disk drives: 4,608
Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 6 TB
Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 67.2 TB
Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
ETERNUS DX8700 S3
Architecture: Scale-out
Storage controllers: 2 - 8
Maximum storage capacity: 4,608 TB
Maximum disk drives: 1,536
Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 1 TB
Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 22.4 TB
Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
Online resources
Media contact
Collin Duff-Tytler
Marketing Programs and Communications Manager
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand
Tel: +61 2 9113 9346
Mobile: +61 409 953 349
Email: collin.duff-tytler@au.fujitsu.com
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 159,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.8 trillion yen (US$40 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.
About Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand is a leading service provider of business, information technology and communications solutions. We partner with our customers to consult, design, build, operate and support business solutions. From strategic consulting to application and infrastructure solutions and services, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have earned a reputation as the single supplier of choice for leading corporate and government organisations. Fujitsu Australia Limited and Fujitsu New Zealand Limited are wholly owned subsidiaries of Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702). See www.fujitsu.com.au.
All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.
As storage-capacity planning becomes more unpredictable, businesses are demanding greater flexibility in scaling storage systems. The need to balance higher service level requirements for hosting corporate business data while minimising total cost of ownership is demanding a new kind of storage architecture. Based on the most flexible pay-as-you-grow architecture on the market, these new systems allow data center customers to build up storage capacity ‘just in time’ – putting an end to over-provisioning and large upfront investments.
Fujitsu’s new enterprise storage systems are also differentiated by unique automation and zero-downtime functions that set a new milestone in business-critical storage by guaranteeing maximum system utilisation and contributing to a faster return on investment. With automated quality of service management, system performance levels can be allocated according to business priorities. This technology can also be used to support service level management for virtual servers. The brand new system architecture can cope with multiple component failures without any interruption to service. In conjunction with the unique transparent failover feature – ETERNUS Storage Cluster – non-stop operation despite a complete system or site failure is guaranteed.
Kenichi Sakai, Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise System Business Unit at Fujitsu, says: “Fujitsu is taking the lead in enterprise storage by delivering new dimensions of scalability, flexibility, automation and business continuity to underpin business-centric storage services. The new top-of-the-range systems, ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and ETERNUS DX8900 S3, are packed with innovations that will improve data management combined with greater efficiency resulting in future-proof platforms for storage consolidation in the data center.”
Marcus Jewell, Vice President, EMEA at Brocade, said: “Businesses of all sizes and across all sectors are currently experiencing incredible growth in data volumes, driven largely by the rapid proliferation in connected devices which is predicted to hit 20 billion within the next five years. If IT departments are to deal effectively with this exponential growth, a new approach to IT infrastructure is needed; one that will give them flexibility and scalability from data center to device. We’re confident that ETERNUS DX in combination with Brocade’s leading network technologies will provide a complete solution for the next generation of data service in data center storage. We believe it will play a key part in this new kind of agile and robust infrastructure, giving customers a significant competitive advantage in the years ahead.”
Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Analyst, Storage at IDC says: "In today's highly virtualised and mixed workload environments, enterprises can benefit from using scale-out storage architectures that enable them to linearly scale capacity and/or performance independent of each other while keeping management simple and costs low. Large enterprises - with their no-compromise requirement around performance, resilience, quality of service management, high availability and reliability – are likely to rely on newer, more scalable iterations of established enterprise storage systems for their business-critical workloads.”
The ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 solutions are perfect for consolidating data all into one system, such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and large-scale databases, file services, business-critical applications and business analytics and/or Big Data. They also provide ample capacity for any demanding virtualization environments. Extensive high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities make ETERNUS DX enterprise models the ideal storage systems for all business-critical data, and they fit perfectly in the private and public cloud environments of large-scale enterprises and service providers.
Pricing and availability
The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 will be globally available from August 1, 2015 via direct sales and certified channel partners. Prices vary by configuration and region.
Notes to editors
ETERNUS DX8900 S3
Architecture: Scale-out
Storage controllers: 2 - 24
Maximum storage capacity: 13,824 TB
Maximum disk drives: 4,608
Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 6 TB
Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 67.2 TB
Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
ETERNUS DX8700 S3
Architecture: Scale-out
Storage controllers: 2 - 8
Maximum storage capacity: 4,608 TB
Maximum disk drives: 1,536
Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 1 TB
Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 22.4 TB
Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
Online resources
- Fujitu Storage ETERNUS DX8000 Series: www.fujitsu.com/eternus-dx
- Data sheet:
- ETERNUS DX8700 S3: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=107c875e-b52a-452d-8b13-9b4a6f2d82ed
- ETERNUS DX8900 S3: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=a50e24c6-3598-4ed9-9653-d15c4db4855c
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Media contact
Collin Duff-Tytler
Marketing Programs and Communications Manager
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand
Tel: +61 2 9113 9346
Mobile: +61 409 953 349
Email: collin.duff-tytler@au.fujitsu.com
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 159,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.8 trillion yen (US$40 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.
About Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand is a leading service provider of business, information technology and communications solutions. We partner with our customers to consult, design, build, operate and support business solutions. From strategic consulting to application and infrastructure solutions and services, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have earned a reputation as the single supplier of choice for leading corporate and government organisations. Fujitsu Australia Limited and Fujitsu New Zealand Limited are wholly owned subsidiaries of Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702). See www.fujitsu.com.au.
All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.