Fujitsu Eternus DX

The Fujitsu company has the impressive list of records of performance and a great number of the customers who are successfully using the disk ETERNUS systems. It offers the highest data transfer rate for such scenarios as consolidation of infrastructures of storage area networks (Storage Area Network) and virtualization of large-scale servers. Fujitsu is the first large producer of storage systems who provided a connectivity to servers on the Fibre Channel with a speed of 16 gigabits per second.

2019

Eternus DX S5

On November 14, 2019 the Fujitsu company announced release to the updated and expanded line a flash arrays of ETERNUS AF S3 and hybrid DWH of ETERNUS DX S5. The generation of storage systems developed for digitalization support, provided has the optimized performance for simple management of large volumes of data, constantly active applications and complex workloads and, along with it, provides high efficiency of storage for the maximum cost reduction. Read more here.

As a part of the joint solution of Fujitsu and Veeam for backup and data recovery

On May 14, 2019 the Fujitsu company reported that together with Veeam set for themselves the task to simplify backup operation and data recovery for the companies using crucial virtual machines in data processing centers. The solution will allow to increase data availability and to accelerate recovery in case of an exit of systems out of operation. Sharing of storage systems of Fujitsu ETERNUS and Veeam Availability Suite, will help the companies to provide the continuity of business.

According to the company, in conditions when the most part of business activity of the modern companies is transferred to completely virtualized computing environments, special attention is paid to problems of backup and operational recovery of virtual machines. Fujitsu and Veeam combined the efforts to simplify and automate process of backup and recovery of virtual machines in local, and cloud environments.

In the conditions of the modern virtualized environments the virtual machines intended for the solution of certain working tasks became an integral part of infrastructure, crucial for business. Effective backup strategy includes regular creation of instant pictures of virtual machines for reduction of a downtime in case of damage. Having combined efforts with Veeam, the Fujitsu company could reduce the cost of data protection of virtual machines and provide the good level of availability and accelerate operational recovery of crucial data. Olivier de La Chapelle, the head of solutions of Fujitsu for DPC in EMEIA region

Consolidation of the solution Veeam Backup & Replication and arrays of data storage of Fujitsu ETERNUS accelerates creation of instant pictures and data recovery, helping the companies to reduce data loss, without overloading production systems. Such approach not only improves data protection, but also provides operational backup and recovery of virtual machines without reduction in the rate of work. Ken Ringdahl, vice president of Veeam company

Using a plug-in Veeam for a flash DWH of Fujitsu ETERNUS AF and hybrid DWH of ETERNUS DX of the company can execute with any frequency backup of virtual machines on the basis of snapshots practically without decline in production of the working environments. This function liquidates a gap between target recovery point (Recovery Point Objective, RPO) and target recovery time (Recovery Time Objective, RTO) that guarantees data availability at any time and the continuity of business in case of breakdown of the equipment.

It is the second project implemented by the companies: before Fujitsu and Veeam integrated software of Veeam Data Mover into the system of data protection of Fujitsu ETERNUS CS800 S7 with the purpose to increase the speed of backup and recovery. Integration with tape libraries ETERNUS LT140 and LT260 for ensuring simple archiving of these virtual machines on tape drives for long-term storage and compliance to requirements of regulators was carried also out.

2018

Fujitsu Eternus DX8900 S4

On November 14, 2018 the Fujitsu company presented the solution for data storage of ETERNUS DX8900 S4 which allows to implement in data processing centers of a storage system of petabyte scale, optimized for flash drives. The solution reduces excess complexity due to failure from use of several levels of data storage for different workloads and consolidation of separate storages within one system for simplification of program transition to data processing centers based on a flash technologies, even in the conditions of loadings of petabyte scale.

In process of increase in amounts of data, the companies are forced to store large volumes of information. Growth of data is caused by active development of such technologies as Internet of Things, network peripheral calculations, virtual reality, the systems of profound analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence which create large volumes of the structured and unstructured data. The era of petabyte calculations is caused by the exponential growth of amount of data. For consolidation of data in corporate applications, such as transaction processing in real time, the database and an enterprise management system, flexible solutions for data storage which differ in high density, scalability and reliability are required, support several different service levels and the high level of automation, noted in Fujitsu.

According to the statement of the developer, all these problems can be solved with the help of the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 systems. Capable to store all data, a system helps the companies to be prepared for requirements of data storage of petabyte scale – when only systems which are completely working based on flash drives can provide necessary access rate and response time. Transition to a flash technology will allow to reduce energy consumption of data processing centers due to failure from use of the rotating hard drives that will also reduce a heat generation rate and requirements to cooling of the equipment.

"The ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system is optimized for flash drives and supports solid state drives with a capacity of 30 TB, integrating in itself advantages of high performance and big scalable capacity. It does the ETERNUS system by an optimal solution which will help the modern digital companies to consolidate the infrastructures for data storage and to cope with constantly growing information volumes". Olivier Delachapelle, the head of solutions of Fujitsu for DPC in EMEIA region

Created based on architecture with repeated reservation and horizontal scaling, the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system will support modular scalability – with a configuration from 2 to 24 controllers – and providing the leading indicators of speed and the continuity of work of the companies. The provided development supports a possibility of installation of hard drives and flash drives for optimal adjustment of capacity, access rate to data and cost of the final solution. According to the developer, a system represents a big step on the way to creation of the data processing centers working only based on a flash technologies since it is capable to provide the peak speed of work to 10,000,000 transactions of input-output per second and supports the capacity of flash drives to 140 PB that is twice more than indicators of capacity of the previous system.

The ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system can be customized for solid state drives, hard drives or their combination and is completely compatible about a flash arrays of ETERNUS AF. It also supports Extreme Cache cache memory (up to 307.2 TB) based on Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) technology for additional increase in speed of reading for the maximum speed of work.

According to the developer, the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system provides the increased efficiency since all operations on data compression are controlled hardware that increases performance to 6 times. In configurations with horizontal scalability speed increases when adding each controller module.

The system of Fujitsu, according to the developer, also guarantees that the speed of operation of applications remains at permanently high level and reduces administrative costs due to consolidation of different loadings and levels of data storage. The built-in function of guaranteed quality of service (Quality of Service, QoS) in the automatic mode controls a boot priority of central processors, capacity and distribution of data on levels. These completely automated QoS functions in combination with data compression technologies do the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system by an optimal solution for dynamic corporate applications, including transaction processing in real time, databases, enterprise management systems, the analysis and high-performance computing.

The built-in functions of reservation provide security blanket of the corporate level from failure of disks, controllers, connection diagrams and even the whole system. Besides, carryover functions without idle time of work, instant pictures, remote replication and transparent abnormal switching provide the continuity of work of the companies. The product families of ETERNUS created based on seamless architecture, the ETERNUS DX and ETERNUS AF systems can easily and just transfer data to the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 system that allows to receive the cost-efficient solution for abnormal switching and flexible failure recovery for branches of the companies and remote divisions, claim in Fujitsu.

The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8900 S4 systems will go on sale around the world in January, 2019.

Release of Eternus DX500 S4 and DX600 S4

The Fujitsu company in January, 2018 announced release of the next generation of hybrid DWH of Eternus DX S4 of the average level. The provided storage systems satisfy customers need in the high speed of calculations for ensuring continuity of work and growth of digital business.

The Eternus DX500 S4 and DX600 S4 systems allow the companies to consolidate the maximum volume of the structured and unstructured data on one storage system in which solid state drives and traditional hard drives are used. Such approach is directed to optimization of performances of hybrid DWH for ensuring optimal speed, capacity and cost.

Engineers of Fujitsu changed architecture of models that increased performance of storage when using solid-state disks by 30%. Besides, the high-capacity hard drives installed in systems allow to store unstructured data with minimum flows, claim in the company.

Functions of intellectual automation give the chance to simplify administration of a system and instead of tasks of management of different levels of data storage just to set parameters of capacity and capacity according to necessary response time for each volume of data. Thanks to high performance at the level of solid state drives the family of DWH Eternus DX S4 allows the companies is protected and to pass step by step from hard drives to a flash technologies within one system.

Fujitsu Eternus DX support technologies of deduplication and data compression therefore customers have additional opportunities for control of necessary capacity and the expenses on IT. All existing and new Eternus DX systems can be controlled using uniform software for management of DWH — Eternus SF. Practically in all models functions of mirroring and replication of data, as well as reserve switching without stopping of work are implemented. They are present both at new, and at the old systems that protects investments of the company. The hybrid systems it is possible to apply a flash arrays to recovery, reducing costs on maintenance of continuity of work.

Hybrid DWH of the average level of Eternus DX S4 is available to acquisition in the countries of North America, Europe, in the Middle East, in India and Africa since January 24, 2018.

2017

DWH of initial level from Fujitsu the price/performance set a ratio record

On July 20, 2017 the Fujitsu company stated that the storage system of the initial Eternus DX200 S4 level set a record in SPC-1 test of Storage Performance Council committee, having shown the high performance, low cost and low response time. In particular, the solution provided a ratio the price/performance at the level of of $0.22/IOPS (the number of input-output operations per second (Input/Output per Second)).

According to representatives of Fujitsu, the high speed of work at the minimum cost do DWH of Eternus DX200 S4 by an optimal solution for the companies of small and medium business. So, during SPC-1 test a system showed response time in 0.59 milliseconds at an overall load, and performance at the rate of the number of input-output operations per second exceeded a mark of 300 thousand IOPS.

Fujitsu increased the capacity of hybrid storage systems of Eternus DX S4 twice that provided still high performance at available: according to the company, the Eternus DX200 S4 system offer functionality of the corporate level at the price of DWH of initial level. The solution is suitable for virtualization of servers, work of e-mail, the databases and business applications and also for implementation centralized, the consolidated file services. Using the Fujitsu Eternus family of the company will be able to achieve the due continuity of business — thanks to data availability at the level of 99 9999% (less than one minute of unplanned idle time a year).

In general the independent SPC-1 test giving to buyers an opportunity to compare indicators of work of the systems of several producers estimates storage systems on the following characteristics: number of input-output operations, ratio price/performance and response time.

Fujitsu upgraded DWH of initial level

On May 11, 2017 Fujitsu announced doubling of volume of storages in hybrid storage systems of initial level of the ETERNUS DX S4 family. Products of this line are focused on small and medium business, data warehouse volume in it can reach 4055 TB, in the maximum configuration.

As a part of a line of ETERNUS DX S4 of the ETERNUS DX60 S4, DX100 S4 and DX200 S4 model. Developed especially for small and medium business, the line of DWH of Fujitsu S4 provides 24/7 continuous data protection. The ETERNUS DX systems regularly take "instant pictures" of data and maintain functionality of backup and recovery. Protection about unauthorized access to important information is integrated into them. The continuity of work of storage systems is guaranteed by increase in level of data availability up to 99.9999% – duration of unplanned idle times does not exceed 1 minutes a year.

The technology of deduplication belongs to functions of intellectual automation of DWH, it saves a free space of the drive due to use of one copy of often used data. Files which are used regularly are stored on flash drives for ensuring quick access to them, and seldom used data are placed on cheaper hard drives. Separation of data is executed by means of an automated system of multilevel storage.

Fujitsu guarantees compatibility of the ETERNUS DX systems with the ETERNUS systems of average and senior level that will allow to simplify management and exchange of drives between them.

All organizations depend on data today, whether it be supermarket, hotel or furniture store. Data are used for supply channels, order processing, professional advertizing, work of back offices, including for drawing of accounts, calculation of taxes and payroll. In the field of IT and high dependence on technologies big troubles can cause the low level of experience – for this reason the Fujitsu company simplifies backup operations and data protection using a line of DWH of ETERNUS DX intended for the small companies and separate branches. The technologies of reservation implemented in generation of storage systems of ETERNUS DX S4 provide an optimal ratio of functionality, scalability and price. Olivier de La Chapelle, the head of solutions of Fujitsu for DPC in EMEIA region

In the maximum configuration of DWH ETERNUS DX S4 have the maximum capacity 4055 TB. The systems of the initial ETERNUS DX60 S4 level allow storage to 480 TB data.

For May 11, 2017 these systems can process three times more transactions and support up to 250 thousand transactions of input-output per second, response time does not exceed 1 ms.

The ETERNUS DX60 S4, DX100 S4 and DX200 S4 models are available to acquisition.

2016

Doubling of capacity of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3

In February, 2016 the Fujitsu company announced doubling of capacity of storage systems for the companies of small and medium business (SMB) thanks to improvement of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3, the most miniature model of the ETERNUS DX family. It will help customers to protect from the sector of SMB the investments due to lack of need of capital investments in more high-class systems.

This focused on a business system of storage extends mainly through the partners of Fujitsu with the status SELECT2 providing specialized support to customers. DWH of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3 is simple in installation, configuring, operation and service and allows to solve the problems connected with management and storage of the growing amounts of data in the long term without requiring high costs.

More than 85% of storage systems of ETERNUS of initial level are on sale through wide network of partners of Fujitsu SELECT therefore it is probable that this system will be able to promote the conclusion of profitable contracts partners in the 2016th and in the years ahead. Among other its advantages – support cost-efficient highly productive a host connection 10G of base T iSCSI (still is the option which is rather seldom found in this segment of storage systems a host connection) allowing to lower financial load of the companies of small and medium business. System performance of storage became higher due to support to eight solid state drives (SSD). Users of the ETERNUS DX60 S3 systems will be able to estimate advantages of new improvements thanks to simple free download of the latest microprogram PO3 from the portal of a support service Fujitsu.

The cost of a system includes the software set ETERNUS SF Express for data storage system management. It can be updated to the full-function version of ETERNUS SF in which more predictable model of licensing on the basis of number of controllers instead of widespread model based on capacity is used.

2015

Fujitsu provided Eternus DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3

On July 3, 2015 Fujitsu provided storage systems of Fujitsu Eternus DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3.

Systems are focused on corporate customers, for expansion of capacity to two-digit quantity petabyte to cope with the unpredictable growth of amounts of data. The family of the scalable ETERNUS DX systems flagman in large quantities is created especially for the large companies which need the highest peak capacity (up to 4 million input-output operations per second, IOPS) and huge capacity (to the 14th petabyte), fault tolerance of a corporate class.

Representation of storage systems of Fujitsu Eternus DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3, 2015

The solutions Eternus DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 are focused use for consolidation of data on one system, for example, at online transaction processing (OLTP) and the large-scale databases, file services crucial for business of applications, a business intelligence and/or Big Data.

Besides, they provide sufficient capacity for any resource-intensive environments of virtualization. Systems are equipped with feature set of high readiness and disaster recovery. These models approach, both for private, and for public cloud environments of the large companies and service providers.

	ETERNUS DX8900 S3	ETERNUS DX8700 S3
Архитектура	Горизонтальное масштабирование	Горизонтальное масштабирование
Контроллеры системы хранения	2 – 24	2 – 8
Макс. емкость хранения	13 824 ТБ	4608 ТБ
Макс. число дисков	4608	1536
Макс. объем кэш-памяти (DRAM)	6 ТБ	1 ТБ
Макс. объем кэш-памяти 2-го уровня (SSD)	67,2 ТБ	22,4 ТБ
Макс. число подключаемых хост-систем	8192	8192

Fujitsu released DWH of Eternus DX100 S3

On July 22, 2015 the Fujitsu company announced release of DWH of Eternus DX100 S3. A system is positioned as the unified disk storage system for the small and medium^[1].

DWH of Eternus DX100 S3, 2015

A system has a set of interfaces for integration into the most various IT infrastructure (A Fibre Channel to 16 Gbps, FCoE on 10 Gbps, iSCSI on 1 or 10 Gbps), supports to 144 drives SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in the mixed configurations (form factors 3.5 and/or 2.5 inches), contains up to 864 Tb of the general disk space and is ready to creation of arrays of RAID of levels 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0 and 6. A system at the same time can have host interfaces from four to eight, the maximum quantity connected a host ports reaches 1024; dynamic selection of capacity, AST technology and remote replication are provided.

As a part of a product a packet of managing software of Eternus SF, it is created counting upon management of the flexible, scalable, multifunction environment of storage. The trained IT specialist, without additional finance and time expenditure will manage to administer any other DWH from this family. The flexible procedure of recovery after failures (including remote replication and creation of consecutive series of snapshots) works including in an end-to-end way, i.e. allows recovery on the senior model of DWH of the data from the backup copy or the snapshot made for younger model.

Model	ETERNUS DX100 /DX200 S3	ETERNUS DX500 /DX600 S3
Type	The unified disk storage systems of data for the small and medium enterprises
Interfaces	Fibre Channel (up to 16 Gbps), FCoE (10 Gbps), iSCSI (10 / 1 Gbps), SAS (6 / 3 Gbps), CIFS, NFS	Fibre Channel (up to 16 Gbps), FCoE (10 Gbps), iSCSI (10 / 1 Gbps), CIFS, NFS
max. Disk devices	144 / 264 x SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in the mixed configurations (3.5 inches / 2.5 inches)	528 / 1056 x SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in the mixed configurations (3.5 inches / 2.5 inches)
max. Capacity	864 / 1584 TB	3168 / 6336 TB
Quantity host interfaces	4–8	4 - 16 / 4 - 32
Quantity podkl. host ports	max. 1024	max. 1024
RAID level	0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0, 6	0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0, 6
Dynamic selection of capacity and AST technology	Yes	Yes
Remote replication	Yes	Yes
Management of data storage	ETERNUS SF software package; in addition: ETERNUS Snapshot Manager

2014

Fujitsu Eternus DX200 S3

On January 30, 2014 the Fujitsu company announced reaching of modular disk storage systems of data of the initial ETERNUS DX200 S3 level performance level of the systems of a corporate class.

The new array of ETERNUS DX S3, according to declarations of Fujitsu company, will give opportunities of processing of a business intelligence of large volumes of data on the high-performance disk systems for the companies of small and medium business, on condition of limited IT budgets. The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX200 S3 system guarantees available, more than ever before, the cost of use of resource-intensive applications of a business intelligence in real time.

All range of the ETERNUS DX S3 systems and managing software of ETERNUS SF16 is available, sales are performed directly and through partners of Fujitsu. The prices vary depending on a configuration.

• According to results of the latest SPC Benchmark-1 tests of Storage Performance Council committee the Fujitsu ETERNUS DX200 S3 system exceeds all arrays of the middle class with two controllers and some multicontroller storage systems of a corporate class on number of input-output operations per second (IOPS), a ratio "the price in US dollar (/IOPS)" and response time.

• The Storage Performance Council (SPC) tests are intended for independent assessment of high-speed performance of the storage systems provided by any producers. These are the industry reference tests estimating the most important metrics of storage systems. The SPC organization gives various opportunities for reliable efficiency evaluation. More detailed information on reference tests is provided on the http://www.storageperformance.org page.

• Response time of 0.63 ms at 100% loading of the ETERNUS DX200 S3 system became the best indicator for all history of SPC-1 test.

• The system of Fujitsu of initial level capable to execute more than 200,000 input-output operations of SPC-1 per second shows the same performance level, as many more expensive systems of a middle and corporate class, and "all-flash array" solutions.

• The two-controller ETERNUS DX200 S3 system offers a unique ratio "price/performance" — 0.77 dollars of SShA/SPC-1 IOPS.

• Fujitsu uses the SPC tests for independent testing of the products and obtaining results which will be accepted by all industry members: http://www.storageperformance.org/specs.

• The test program SPC Benchmark-1 is intended for modeling of the loading characteristic of the responsible business applications executing numerous difficult transactions. For reading record performance assessment with random access transaction processing in real time (OLTP), requests in DBMS and mail servers was imitated.

Fujitsu Eternus DX200F

The Fujitsu company announced in May, 2014 the beginning of sales of a storage system of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX200F of the "all-flash array" type with a high performance of a subsystem of input-output. The checked, reliable ETERNUS DX S3 platform – one of the few really corporate platforms among presented at the market is the cornerstone of a new solution of ETERNUS DX200F. All principal components of a system, including power sources and controllers, are excessive that guarantees the continuity of its functioning.

ETERNUS DX200F accelerates batch processing of data and fixes the problem of delays at data processing caused by the high frequency of access in environments of virtual servers or virtual work places. It opens new business opportunities before the companies, allowing to carry out the analysis of Big Data in real time or considerably "smooth" peak web traffic as showed recent results of independent testing of performance.

The combination of solid state drives and interfaces of SAS of 12 Gbps with is unique a high data exchange rate provides high performance. Low delays in the ETERNUS DX200F system (less than 0.5 ms) are ideal for Wednesdays with intensive use of a subsystem of input-output. System architecture is optimized for achievement of high performance of crucial business applications and infrastructures, such as databases and the virtualized environments in which block size is usually 8 CBs or more.

Thanks to function of remote copying in a disk storage system of data of Fujitsu ETERNUS of series DX using the hard drives Nearline it is possible to create the backup copy of data of the ETERNUS DX200F system easily. Moreover, the ETERNUS DX200F system standardly supports thin selection of resources therefore administrators can set virtual capacity irrespective of the physical capacity of solid state drives. Thus, it is possible to add physical disks in process of increase of requirements of a storage system, without changing the set capacity that increases efficiency of use of resources of data storage and helps to optimize investments.

OpenStack supports storage systems of Fujitsu Eternus DX

The Fujitsu company together with service providers and the organizations of public sector initiated in the spring of 2014 a number of procedures of verification of the concepts directed to creation of complete, high-scalable, failsafe solution for data storage based on OpenStack and Ceph technologies. The ready-made solution with a possibility of unprecedented mass horizontal scaling will become public in the second half of 2014.

The Fujitsu company also announced that now OpenStack supports storage systems of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX. OpenStack is a cloud operational platform open source, the managing director of big pools of computing and network resources and also storage resources in data processing centers. Now with the ETERNUS OpenStack Volume Driver drivers customers will be able to select resources of the ETERNUS DX systems in the environments and to manage on a centralized basis them.

Both initiatives of Fujitsu will help customers to use more effectively storage systems in environments of cloud type and quicker to implement new technology paradigms for business support improvement.

Fujitsu Eternus DX600 S3

On August 26, 2014 the Fujitsu company declared an exit of the scalable unified disk storage systems of the middle class of ETERNUS DX600 S3.

Fujitsu Eternus DX600 S3

According to the company, these systems - a great choice for applications with intensive data exchange:

• resource-intensive database management systems,
• analytics environments in real time
• Big Data,
• scenarios of online transaction processing for a large number of users,
• all types of Internet-applications.

The increased system lifecycle of ETERNUS DX600 S3 in those areas where the exponential growth of amounts of data is supposed, and cutting of costs for migration are caused by existence of a large supply of performance. Performance expressed in IOPS directly affects the number of the virtual machines (VM) which can be placed in storage system. The ETERNUS DX system allows increase in density of VM and is the ideal platform for consolidation of storage systems in environments of VMware or Hyper-V.

The ETERNUS DX600 S3 system provides response time of 0.61 ms in full load conditions and meets requirements of many high performance applications.

All range of the ETERNUS DX S3 systems and managing software of ETERNUS SF16 is available directly or through partners of Fujitsu. The prices - depending on a configuration. All ETERNUS DX S3 systems are simple in management and are created based on architecture of one family.

Fujitsu Eternus DX60 S3

On January 13, 2015 the Fujitsu company began to offer end users and partners a powerful disk storage system of data of initial level which will become a driving force of sales for partners of the company in 2015 and the next years. The storage system of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3 is scaled without excess costs that allows the companies of small and medium business to manage constantly growing amounts of data. This business focused system extends through the partners of Fujitsu with the status SELECT providing specialized support to customers. The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3 system is simple in installation, configuring, operation and service and allows to solve in the long term the problems connected with management and storage of the growing amounts of data with low costs.

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Over 85% of storage systems of ETERNUS of initial level are on sale through an extensive partner network of SELECT of Fujitsu company. The provided innovation is the completing model in the newest generation of complex family of disk storage systems of data of ETERNUS DX. Among the main differences there are ETERNUS DX60 models from predecessors – faster a host interfaces, the increased performance, the improved ratio the price/performance, the doubled volume a cache memory and expanded functions of instant pictures and replication. Besides, this system offers advanced support of the virtualized server environments and layer functions of the enterprise, such as Thin Provisioning (thin selection of resources) which usually are implemented in more expensive more high-class systems.

The cost of a system also includes the cost of the software set of ETERNUS SF Express for data storage system management. It can be updated to the full-function version of ETERNUS SF in which more predictable model of licensing on the basis of number of controllers instead of widespread model based on capacity is used.

The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3 model supplements complex family of disk storage systems of ETERNUS DX and now is available around the world through partner distributors and directly in Fujitsu company.

2013: Fujitsu Eternus Snapshot Manager (ESM)

For October, 2013 FUJITSU ETERNUS Snapshot Manager (ESM) — the optimized and completely integrated software solution for disk storage systems of data of the ETERNUS DX family. ESM adds function of easy management of instant copies to the fastest disk storage systems of data in the world, continuing to improve simple, safe and scalable solutions for data storage from Fujitsu corporation.

The organizations face continuous increase in amount of data, and corporate IT departments should provide constantly the continuity of business processes, investing means in increase in reliability of storage and data protection. While other tools for creation of instant pictures force administrators to carry out manually some tasks — such as start of scenarios for obtaining the instant copies corresponding to the applications — Fujitsu of ESM accelerates and facilitates process of management of copies thanks to providing the complete information about them taking into account all main applications, devices and operating systems. Besides, the high level of detailing which provides ESM allows the companies to find and recover quickly separate files in indexed instant copies, increasing data availability and productivity of business.

2011

Fujitsu Eternus DX8700 S2

The Fujitsu company provided in October, 2011 Eternus DX8700 S2 — the solution using modular technology in a segment of the high-performance disk systems which allows customers to begin with the small systems and to increase them in process of growth of business requirements.

The generation of the Eternus DX systems is called to save the companies from need to carefully analyze perspectives of future growth when choosing a storage system and to be limited to a framework of the fixed range of capacity of such system. Earlier the error when choosing could cost much: the customer or overpaid in case of revaluation of future requirements, or was forced to purchase afterwards more powerful system at their underestimation. The Eternus DX8700 S2 model changes rules of the game thanks to transition from monolithic architecture to modular. The new generation of the disk Fujitsu Eternus DX8700 systems is developed especially for solution of the problem of growth of volume of data storage by use of modular architecture which allows to perform flexible building, says Fujitsu.

The Eternus DX8700 S2 system presented by the company at the Storage Networking World Europe exhibition is intended for the Wednesdays including a set of open systems, and the virtualized infrastructures. The main feature of this model from the Eternus DX family is its capability to provide the high level of reliability and performance without excess initial costs, developers claim.

The concept of "flexible data storage" means minimization of the initial financial investments of customers which can begin business based on the small systems consisting of two modules of the controller (CM) and four disk modules (DE) with the subsequent building as required up to eight CM and 3072 disk storage modules now. The separate module Eternus DX has the new form factor with a high density of component placement optimized for placement in a standard 19-inch rack.

The model is offered on the terms of the "transparent" license what will allow users of the Eternus family to estimate and control precisely expenses (without the hidden costs) and to carry out gradual upgrade without the exceeding of the set estimate connected with acquisition of additional licenses for which often there are just not enough means. It is important to note that software licenses for the Eternus DX systems have the fixed price which depends on number of the used controllers, but not on the varying amount of data.

One more feature of the Eternus DX8700 S2 system — application of the concept "flexible management by data" Fujitsu. This approach provides the high level of automation of segmentation at data storage, including support of different types and volumes of disks, and optimum level of functioning in the dynamic and quickly changing environments. Data transfer rate of a new system grew, according to Fujitsu, by 300%. Besides the company certified bigger quantity connected a host systems. At last, functions of data protection are expanded thanks to the "self-ciphered" hard drives.

The Fujitsu corporation announced at the beginning of 2013 the record results achieved by the ETERNUS DX8700 S2 system in the reference Storage Performance Council (SPC) test of Benchmark 2. The best values of capacity and price relation and performance among the high-performance systems available in the market for December 3, 2012 are shown.

There are industries requiring optimum levels of service for the dynamic and quickly developing environments which can include a set of open systems and the virtualized infrastructures. Capacity and system performance of data storage of Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8700 S2 correspond to the set conditions. Now it is confirmed by record results in independent SPC-2 test. Additional plus for customers is the minimum level of capital costs.

This achievement is the next confirmation of a successful performance of the ETERNUS DX systems in the SPC tests, best in the class. The set of results of testing allows to consider that the disk Fujitsu ETERNUS systems meet the difficult requirements of the companies needing implementation of large-scale projects — whether it be processing of financial information, requests to databases or virtualization of servers and the desktop systems.

• Test results of SPC Benchmark-2 for the ETERNUS DX8700 S2 system: capacity of 16038.74 Mbps, price relation and productivities makes 79.51 US dollars on each Mbps of capacity.
• Performance test of Storage Performance Council (SPC) is developed by non-profit organization for assessment of high-speed performance of the data warehouses provided by leading manufacturers.

Providing the speed and performance necessary for such applications as online transaction processing (Online Transaction Processing), the Fujitsu company also reduces response time at data processing and minimizes delays — practically implementing a real-time mode — at the expense of the increased volume a cache memory which exceeds 1 TB in the senior Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8700 model now. Besides, advanced algorithms of the automated data movement between levels of storage (Automated Storage Tiering) maintain optimal balance of high-speed performance, capacity and cost of a storage system. At the same time new features of quality management of service allow to reach more high efficiency and predictability of management of all applications.

Fujitsu Eternus DX60 S2

In September, 2011 the Fujitsu company begins deliveries to the channel partners of a powerful disk storage system of data of initial level together with a promonabor which should serve as the catalyst of future sales. The new Eternus DX60 S2 model is developed especially for satisfaction of constantly growing requirements of the companies of small and medium business in the field of data management taking into account cost optimization. A new system facilitates to users a task of management of the growing amounts of data and their storages at reasonable costs.

The Eternus DX60 S2 model will be on sale through network of channel partners of Fujitsu. In addition to inclusion of new model in large actions for sales promotion, the company will support its sales by means of special training, demonstration programs and also by providing to partners an opportunity to perform assembly by request that will provide reduction of delivery dates and optimization of the prices in sales network.

"The new Eternus DX60 S2 system takes the central place in the program of development of partner relations for sale of storage systems of Fujitsu company which is directed as to providing the companies of small and medium business with systems optimized under their needs, and to expansion of opportunities of our partners, - Ekaterina Zolotaryova, the head of department on work with partners of Fujitsu Technology Solutions noted. - The resellers who are engaged in sale of the Eternus DX systems pay tribute as to their technical characteristics and configuration flexibility, and the provided trade discounts and also that fact that our strategy is sold by it it is clear and causes in them trust".

Existence of opportunities of an online configuration and partner assembly means that the Eternus DX60 S2 system can be delivered under the specific order that will reduce delivery dates from 10 days till 24-48 o'clock.

The prices will vary depending on the region of sales and a configuration.

The Eternus DX60 S2 system developed by Fujitsu company especially for the companies of small and medium business is expected also support of all elements of information infrastructure, including responsible applications and databases, the virtualized servers and storages of business data.

The new Eternus DX60 S2 system of Fujitsu company represents the economic basic model of the Eternus DX family providing expansibility of capacity of storage up to 72 Tbyte that is equivalent 72,000 hours (or more than to eight years) unceasing IP telecasting in DVD quality.

Eternus DX60 S2 supports expansion to 24 hard drives, providing convenience of the solution of constantly changing business challenges. The connectivity of hosts to a system through iSCSI-or the SAS interface in addition to the fiber-optical channel promotes optimization of investments of the customer into the existing information infrastructure. Sales of new model in the region of Central Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India will begin on October 7, 2011.

The process of management of data often presenting difficulties for the companies of small and medium business is performed by means of the managing software of Eternus SF Express which the Fujitsu company free of charge includes in the package of each Eternus DX60 S2 system. This software package increases process performance of installation, configuring and maintenance of infrastructure of data storage. Thanks to a full integration with the existing information infrastructure, including operating systems, servers from different suppliers, network infrastructures and technologies of backup, the Eternus system provide faster accomplishment of necessary tasks, thereby reducing time and volume of work on administration.

Fujitsu Eternus DX440 S2

The Fujitsu company announced a new record of ETERNUS DX440 S2 which exceeded models of the class on indicators of cost efficiency and performance level according to results of the reference Storage Performance Council 2 Benchmarks test. The disk storage system of data of ETERNUS DX440 S2 left after model of the initial ETERNUS DX80 S2 level – in the past also the champion on cost efficiency and performance. New outstanding indicators reflect tradition of Fujitsu company regarding achievement of the results of the SPC tests, best in a class, for storage systems.

The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX440 S2 model showed record levels of cost efficiency and performance according to test results of SPC-2

• Test results of SPC-2 confirmed unsurpassed indicators of the Fujitsu ETERNUS DX440 S2 model in the field of processing of files of large volume, requests of databases of high capacity and video transmission on demand

Speed of gaining access to information and its extraction directly influences operating activities of the organization. The improved performance can help the organizations to fulfill more effectively such requirements of the IT field as need to cope with constantly increasing workloads and to process large volumes of data with high speed. The reference SPC-2 Benchmark test is intended especially for the analysis of high-speed performance of storage systems in large-scale environments with sequential access to data. The assessment of parameters of three separate operating modes was carried out: processing of high-volume files, requests of high-capacity databases and video transmission on demand.

• Test results of SPC Benchmark-2 for the ETERNUS DX440 S2 model: data transfer rate — 5768.04 Mbps, a ratio the price/performance — 66.50 dollars of SShA/SPC-2 MBPS™

• SPC Benchmark-1, SPC-1 IOPS, SPC Benchmark-2 and SPC-2 MBPS are registered trade marks of the Storage Performance Council organization.

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) tests are intended for independent assessment of high-speed performance of the storage systems provided by any producers. These are the industry reference tests estimating the most important metrics of storage systems. The SPC organization gives various opportunities for reliable efficiency evaluation.

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