Now There Are Eight Ways to Configure a Fujitsu teamserver; Data Center Customers Get More Powerful Servers for Server Consolidation, SAN Solutions

Business Wire, Nov 8, 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

Amdahl Corp. announced availability in North America of the Fujitsu teamserver(TM) model HS900, an eight-way-capable Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon(TM) processor-based server.

The first models available in the teamserver HS900 family are based on 550MHz processors with 1-MB or 2-MB Level 2 cache, and expandable to 32 GB of system memory. The new HS900, expected to be at least 1.7 times more powerful than current four-way 500MHz SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing) teamservers, is available immediately.

The eight-way-capable HS900 complements Amdahl's powerful suite of SAN (storage area network) offerings based on the LVS(TM) 4800 Fibre Channel storage systems. Amdahl's SAN initiative provides the tools to allow IT organizations to manage, track and exploit their data across the enterprise through a variety of easily configurable interconnections.

With these tools, Amdahl customers can "seamlessly" create and move data across multiple storage networks. The Fujitsu teamserver HS900 provides the very high performance server that allows Amdahl's SAN solutions to meet the critical demands of compute- and I/O-intensive applications such as knowledge management and data mining applications.

Fujitsu's focus on RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) design has enabled all the heat management, redundancy and service management technology to be contained in an even more practical rack-mount form factor. The HS900 node has a 7U rack-mount form factor, 3U smaller than Fujitsu's previous high-end four-way systems.

The Fujitsu teamserver HS900 also has 64-bit Hot Plug PCI, redundant power and cooling, and a dual channel RAID controller all as standard equipment. These features help the HS900 deliver performance and availability required to dramatically reduce the cost of ownership through the physical and logical data consolidation capabilities of Fibre-based SANs.

"The HS900 extends Amdahl and Fujitsu leadership in very high performance IA computing," said David West, vice president of Systems Marketing at Amdahl. "With the teamserver HS900, Fujitsu and Amdahl now offer the engineering pedigree of large systems but with the pricing, common standards and usability of today's business-critical systems."

The same server management, installation and predictive maintenance software used by other teamservers will operate unchanged on the new models. teamserver HS900 is a natural extension of the existing teamserver family, which now scales from single-processor file and print servers to data warehouse systems supporting multiple terabytes of data.

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