Fujitsu's PRIMERGY BX620 S4 Blade Server for Solving Server Consolidation Problems

Based on a technical analysis of about 9000 business talks given by Fujitsu for customers, we found that amid the ongoing IT system optimization at enterprises, blade servers had become an increasingly important IT platform for optimizing infrastructure. We also discovered that about 80% of our customers had introduced blade servers in order to consolidate their own servers. The customers expect this consolidation of servers to provide management with a global understanding of their IT systems, reduce the heavy workload that server operation imposes on user departments, and curtail IT investment costs in information system departments. However, server consolidation also entails such problems as a more complex network design and increased workload on an information system department. Fujitsu fully understood these server consolidation problems based on extensive consultations on optimizing infrastructure conducted in the past. To solve these problems, Fujitsu developed and marketed the PRIMERGY BX620 S4 blade server. The PRIMERGY BX620 S4 offers superior IT system flexibility by expanding network functions, simplifies operation and management by utilizing virtualization technology, and also reduces power consumption. This paper describes the technologies that provide these advantages.