Primergy BF400 S2

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With PRIMERGY BladeFrame powered by Egenera, Fujitsu Siemens Computers clears the way for highly responsive enterprise IT. The solution features a service-oriented infrastructure, the innovative Processing Area Network (PAN), which radically eliminates the complexity of traditional infrastructures. Thanks to the simplification, separation and sharing of resources, IT departments have experienced enormous gains in agility and efficiency. Applications can be deployed within a matter of minutes, instead of weeks, and investment costs and the total cost of ownership can be demonstrably reduced by 50 percent.

PRIMERGY BladeFrame is a service-oriented infrastructure in which processing, network and resource management are integrated and ready for use. The best of two worlds is combined in PRIMERGY BladeFrame – the kind of administration functions that are valued in the mainframe world with a blade-type processing architecture, based on industry standards. This makes the solution a “Dynamic Data Center in the box“ which goes far beyond traditional blade architectures and presents a completely new approach to utilizing IT.

Provision system and allocate resources in minutes

The BladeFrame 400 consists of a cabinet containing 24 processing resources, redundant central controllers, redundant integrated switches, redundant high-speed interconnects and BladeFrames PAN Manager software. The BladeFrame combines the utility of stateless servers with powerful software that virtualizes processing, storage and networking resources into a "computing fabric." The PAN Manager software provides a single point for configuring, managing and monitoring both the physical and virtual resources in the Processing Area Network.