Fujitsu Reshaping the Datacenter

Dynamic as your Business

The role of IT is changing: Nowadays it is impossible to do business without reliable IT support. A whole new range of technologies promises to radically change our lives within the near future, and is already doing so. And it will alter the way we run our businesses. This makes IT and business-process alignment a must, if companies are to cope with the increasingly rapid changes to business needs.

The ideal way to meet these demands is to reshape the whole IT infrastructure, to make it dynamic. And, within this infrastructure, it is the data center that is most critical.

The ability to effectively reshape the datacenter, choosing the right path and selecting the pertinent elements for optimization, is crucial if businesses want to remain competitive and change the status of IT from ‘reactive’ to ‘proactive’. Since it is practically impossible to find identical IT infrastructures in two different companies, the approach to reshaping the data center needs to be tailored to the individual company environment. Looking at the most common pain points, the areas displaying the highest priority are those of data protection, virtualization, energy efficiency, and the optimization of ERP environments. Depending on the specific situation, CIOs may want to consider one or several of these approaches.

As a starting point, companies need to evaluate the best way to reshape the data center. This could be done by changing the way the data center is designed and managed internally, by way of massive deployment of virtualization and automation techniques, or thinking about a new, flexible way of sourcing resources and process support on a service provisioning basis, i.e. moving toward cloud computing. Or even a mixture of both.

In any case, Fujitsu helps you to adapt IT to your specific requirements.

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Austrian heating systems manufacturer increased performance K+S Group aligned IT organization and business units and ensured permanent availability, performance and capacity Virtualization to attain highest possible redundancy and fail-safety.Staffordshire County Council consolidated IT and processes

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Resource Provisioning: find the best solution

Data centers are plagued by a number of different problems – most of which can be solved by server virtualization. With over 20 years of experience in this technology, we are able to optimize our products for various virtualization scenarios, backed by management and assessment services. But nowadays everybody is talking about private cloud computing. Would this suit you better? We will work with you to determine this and provide the best solution for your specific needs.

The problems encountered with data centers include excessive energy consumption, unequal or insufficient SLA, high operating costs, unsatisfactory performance, limited agility, and a lack of transparency. One easy solution to all of these is server virtualization.

Our 20 years of experience in server virtualization and the knowledge we gain as a global cloud provider directly influence the development of our products, such as PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage systems. All of these are optimized for various virtualization and cloud scenarios, make use of the latest technologies, offer special features, and have the maximum possible compatibility with industry standards.

Furthermore, we can manage your physical and virtualized environments with our ServerView Resource Coordinator and ServerView Resource Orchestrator, both of which are also ready for private cloud computing. Moreover, some of our products and solutions serve to bridge the private cloud in your datacenters with public cloud offerings.

In short, we provide the optimal solution for your individual needs. Only after we have worked with you to identify your requirements do we offer our pre-defined, tool-based and fixed-priced assessment services to analyze your current situation in detail. These services are available for servers, clients, datacenters, storage, network, data protection, Oracle and SAP, and even assess which kind of cloud would best fit your needs today and in the future. Then, and only then, do we make our recommendations.

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Operations efficiency: saving energy and the planet

Green IT has evolved into a mantra for many IT projects, and while the IT infrastructure remains a common focus for reducing costs and increasing efficiency, it is equally important to concentrate on the data center facility for meeting energy targets. This is why Fujitsu develops leading energy-efficient IT products, and delivers professional services to assist in designing, implementing and optimizing IT facilities.

Factors such as optimizing the efficiency of facility cooling infrastructure and airflow can result in large energy savings. Similarly, “what-if” modeling with an accurately calibrated 3D model can show whether a data center tech room could be run several degrees warmer, or with a different aisle layout, or with reduced chillers to achieve savings, without affecting the productive environment. Furthermore, new IT equipment simulations can help understand the potential impact on a tech hall, allowing this knowledge to be integrated in the IT and facility-management processes of the data center.

This is why Fujitsu not only focuses on developing its leading portfolio of energy-efficient IT products, but also delivers professional services to assist data center facility owners and operators in designing, implementing and optimizing their IT facilities, right up to full formal certification as an “Energy-Efficient Data Center”.

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German Insurance Association (GDV)Bauer Distillery develops entire IT infrastructure to be ready for future Intergenia: Europe’s greenest data center Highly secure backup data center at the University Clinic of Münster Highly secure backup data center for the EOS Group

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SAP Operations: smart infrastructures for SAP ERP and BI environments

As a long-term global SAP partner, Fujitsu has extensive experience in the development of dynamic infrastructure solutions, designed to help you optimize your SAP operations. A perfect example is FlexFrame for SAP, which, with its integrated virtualization and automation technology, offers the complete and cost-efficient management of servers, storage, network and SAP applications. And those customers wishing to optimize their BI environments will benefit from Fujitsu’s expertise in SAP infrastructure optimization.

If you implement SAP applications to help run your business, you will want to address the optimization of the complete SAP operation process throughout your company. As a global SAP partner, Fujitsu has been cooperating with SAP for almost 40 years to meet the various, complex customer requirements.

Based on this experience, we have developed FlexFrame for SAP as an end-to-end dynamic infrastructure solution. This helps you to virtualize your entire IT infrastructure with the complete management of servers, virtual machines, storage, network and SAP applications.

Virtualized and physical servers managed by FlexFrame for SAP provide a pool of resources that allows your IT administration to dynamically allocate resources to SAP applications as needed. This translates to greater flexibility when it comes to development, tests, and production, as well as an improved use of system capacity and a high level of scalability. It also enables users to quickly shift their SAP applications from physical to virtual servers, or vice versa – all from one central administration point.

In addition, FlexFrame monitors the availability of the IT infrastructure, as well as that of the SAP applications themselves. And in case of hardware or application failure, FlexFrame automatically initiates measures to restore the services.

FlexFrame for SAP is pre-produced in the Fujitsu Staging Center and delivered ready-to-run. So your SAP systems can be installed immediately upon delivery.

Based on our wide-ranging experience with the proven FlexFrame for SAP, we also develop infrastructure solutions and services to support you in gaining faster access to the information you need in making the correct business decisions. Our pre-installed, end-to-end solutions – SAP BI Business Warehouse Accelerator Infrastructure and Fujitsu Infrastructure for SAP HANA appliance software – ensure rapid implementation as well as efficient administration and operation

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REHAU makes out the potential of FlexFrame for SAP with integrated VMware K+S: Private Cloud Computing conducted with FlexFrame for SAP and VMware quindata uses FlexFrame for SAP® to leverage performance and lower operating costs Flexframe™ for SAP® with VMware gives Uphantis unprecedented freedom AOK data center deploys FlexFrame™ for SAP® to do more with less

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Data Protection: safeguard your data asset

Enterprise data is one of the most valuable assets for a business. Yet the complexity in data centers has created a substantial risk of data loss, thus raising the cost of its protection. Fujitsu ETERNUS CS radically simplifies data protection in heterogeneous IT environments, consolidating backup systems, delivering disaster resilience and lowering total storage costs.

The amount of companies’ business critical data is growing at an exponential rate. This means data loss is becoming increasingly unacceptable and data restore has to become ever faster. However, the growing complexity found in data centers has created a substantial risk of data loss – resulting in increasing costs of data protection.

While improvement to data protection services is regarded as increasingly necessary, companies are carefully looking at how to justify the associated investment, from a business perspective.

Fujitsu ETERNUS CS High End radically simplifies data protection in heterogeneous IT environments. It consolidates backup systems on a large scale, and integrates compliant archiving within the same appliance. As a data protection appliance, it centrally manages the backup and restore of data from mainframes, UNIX and x86 systems platforms in a way that is currently unmatched on the market. Back-up to disk and to tape are combined under one seamless control, to provide a fine-grained and autonomous information life cycle management.

ETERNUS CS is a proven system with a successful track record spanning over 10 years, and hundreds of installations worldwide. It radically reduces operational challenges and delivers disaster resilience in one seamless solution.
In short, Fujitsu ETERNUS CS minimizes risks while raising operational efficiency with an excellent return on investment.

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10 Year Record of Success – from CentricStor to ETERNUS CS ETERNUS CS800: Nassauische Heimstätte / Wohnstadt

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