Zero-Cost Enterprise Server Loaners Let Businesses Test
Products and Experience Innovative Technologies On-Premise Prior to
Purchase
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu, a
Diamond-level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today
announced several global marketplace successes with its Fujitsu M10
server evaluation loaner program that lets customers and resellers
and partners experience the high-performance business server
on-site and at zero cost. The program allows organizations to
verify expectations, test new technologies, maintain business
continuity and minimize risk during project planning and
implementation for IT modernization and consolidation projects.
The loaner program includes a pool of powerful and compact 1RU
Fujitsu M10-1 servers and the modular and highly scalable Fujitsu
M10-4S servers, and gives customers the ability to specify their
exact configuration. These high-performance, yet affordable servers
are based on the Fujitsu SPARC64® X+ processors and run Oracle
Solaris. Oracle Solaris 11 complements the Fujitsu M10 server's
capabilities by offering complete built-in virtualization,
application-driven software-defined networking (SDN), and a full
OpenStack distribution. This powerful combination creates a highly
efficient, compliant, secure, open and affordable foundation for
private cloud computing for a broad range of industries including
financial services, communications, healthcare, media and
entertainment, retail and the public sector.
"The Fujitsu M10 loaner program helped to convince us that it
was the right decision to take the big step to new Fujitsu M10
server hardware for our most critical operational system at
Brussels Airport. The loaner system allowed us to pre-test the
migration, enabling us to quickly put M10 servers into place
without losing valuable time. These pre-tests also showed us that
that the Fujitsu M10 system delivers the performance and stability
we needed for the infrastructure. The Fujitsu loaner program
demonstrates to us that Fujitsu wants its customers to be fully
satisfied with what they buy," said Pol De Busschere, Datacenter
Manager at the Brussels Airport Company in Belgium.
According to Krys Armatys, vice
president and chief technology officer for HighVail, a
Canadian-based market leader in delivering IT infrastructure and
technology, "The Fujitsu M10 server loaner program has been
invaluable to HighVail. Thanks to this program HighVail has
successfully validated the migration and consolidation of multiple
legacy Oracle Solaris environments on the Fujitsu M10 platform
using the latest Oracle VM Server for SPARC virtualization and
Oracle Solaris container technologies. The Fujitsu M10 loaner
program has significantly accelerated HighVail's service delivery
capabilities, and in turn has enabled our mutual customers to adopt
and realize the benefits of this cost effective, highly scalable,
flexible and reliable architecture within their own
datacenters."
Tarrie French, senior account
executive at Alphanumeric, a leading provider of business
productivity services based in Raleigh,
NC, said, "The Fujitsu M10
server loaner program has been tremendously helpful to our
marketing and presales teams, where we have taken possession of a
system for several months to conduct live demonstrations to
showcase the unique technologies of the Fujitsu M10 – like the
green technologies that enable lower power consumption – and its
superior overall price/performance. These live demos done to a
highly qualified prospect have helped us win sales. Few server
vendors offer these types of programs and it is precisely these
sorts of initiatives that strengthen our business relationship with
partners like Fujitsu."
Taking advantage of the Fujitsu M10 loaner program, Fujitsu
Technology and Business of America (FTBA) recently utilized Fujitsu
M10-1 loaners during the planning and implementation phase of its
upgrade to the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite. FTBA
consolidated from five legacy SPARC® servers to three Fujitsu M10-1
servers, enhancing the speed of its business support services and
reducing the datacenter footprint by 90 percent, while lowering
energy consumption by 50 percent and maintenance fees by 40
percent.
The zero-cost loaner program features an easy approval process
that includes a simple loaner agreement. Fujitsu will deliver the
customized server to the customer's location for up to two months
(extensions are given for special requests). To request a loaner or
for more information, contact M10_Force@us.fujitsu.com.
Media Contacts
Fujitsu M10
Orion Marketing
Mardi Larson
612-928-0202
mardi.larson@orionmarketing.com
Fujitsu America, Inc.
Bryan Hollar
408-746-6412
bryan.hollar@us.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 Americas
Fujitsu America, Inc. is the
parent and/or management company of a group of Fujitsu-owned
companies operating in North, Central and South America and Caribbean, dedicated to delivering the full
range of Fujitsu products, solutions and services in ICT to our
customers in the Western Hemisphere. These companies are
collectively referred to as Fujitsu Americas. Fujitsu enables
clients to meet their business objectives through integrated
offerings and solutions, including consulting, systems integration,
managed services, outsourcing and cloud services for
infrastructure, platforms and applications; datacenter and field
services; and server, storage, software and mobile/tablet
technologies. For more information, please visit:
http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/ and
http://twitter.com/fujitsuamerica
About Fujitsu M10 Servers
Fujitsu M10 SPARC
servers are flexible and scalable systems that deliver high
performance and mission-critical reliability for enterprise-class
workloads. These high-performance servers are based on Fujitsu
SPARC64 X+/X processors and run Oracle Solaris. Fujitsu M10 servers
are available as single-socket 1RU Fujitsu M10-1, 4-socket 4RU
M10-4 and scalable M10-4S models. Fujitsu M10 servers feature key
technologies such as CPU core activation and building block
architecture to lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Fujitsu
M10 servers are sold as SPARC M10 by Fujitsu in Japan. Fujitsu M10 and SPARC M10 are identical
products. For more information, please visit:
http://www.fujitsu.com/sparc/
Trademarks
Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo and "shaping
tomorrow with you" are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Fujitsu Limited in the United
States and other countries. SPARC and SPARC64 are trademarks
or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in
the United States and other
countries. Oracle and Oracle Solaris are registered trademarks of
Oracle Corporation in the United
States and other countries. All other trademarks and product
names are the property of their respective owners.
Information provided in this press release is accurate at time
of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.
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