White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? Building data center infrastructures is increasingly complex, error-prone, time-consuming, risky and expensive. FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX reduces complexity and risk, shortens time to value and reduces cost. Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor Content Business requirements facing IT 2 Building a data center infrastructure is complex 2 Integrated Systems 2 Numerous benefits 3 Hyper-converged systems 3 Classical converged or hyper-converged – The use case matters 4 FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX 5 Converged lifecycle management 5 Delivery options 5 Professional Services for PRIMEFLEX 6 Attractive add-ons for operation and maintenance 6 Many years of experience 6 Financing Options 6 PRIMEFLEX for many important use cases 7 What makes PRIMEFLEX different? 8 Summary 8

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? Business requirements facing IT The job of an IT manager is not easy, because he is always in areas of conflict with pressure from three sides. Management expects maximum flexibility from corporate IT in order to respond quickly and effectively to ever changing business demands. This requires adjustments to existing IT services and above all fast delivery of new services. At the same time, financial managers are looking for more efficiency. This includes less complexity and lower costs, in addition to more cost transparency...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? Numerous benefits The benefits resulting from Integrated Systems are manifold. Complexity is reduced, because introducing a new infrastructure in your data center becomes much simpler. You will experience less trouble through trial-and-error testing, because the compatibility of all components is absolutely guaranteed. At the same time, risk is minimized and the skill sets required in your IT department will be less demanding. Apart from this, you need less time for planning, and deployment is tremendously accelerated...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? Classical converged Software-Defined Compute Compute Storage Network Hyper-converged systems provide diverse benefits in addition to those resulting from Integrated Systems in general. Having compute and storage resources integrated in a single box makes deployment even easier and faster. The single pane of glass management for both, compute and storage resources, reduces administration effort and skill demands. As there is no external storage included, data center footprint will often be reduced just as energy consumption...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? The storage capacity of a hyper-converged infrastructure is limited by the number of server nodes. If you have to cope with amounts of data which are larger than the maximum storage capacity of your server cluster, hyper-converged will be no option. Though hyper-converged promises linear scalability, predictable network performance with larger deployments is sometime questioned, mainly caused by a lack of experience. Beside the technical appropriateness of workloads, it is also software licensing aspects which should be...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? Professional Services for PRIMEFLEX Although most of the typical activities have been done by Fujitsu before project start, some activities still need to be done onsite. But even with these remaining activities, its partners do not leave you out in the rain. Many years of experience Fujitsu’s Integrated Systems are unsurpassed when it comes to best practices and extensive project experience. Fujitsu has a long track record. The first Integrated System was shipped back in 2002, long before the term of Integrated System...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? PRIMEFLEX for many important use cases After having discussed Integrated Systems in general, Fujitsu’s view on Integrated Systems and all the attractive supplements offered by Fujitsu, let us now have a closer look at Fujitsu’s Integrated Systems portfolio. In all its Integrated Systems activities, Fujitsu focuses on what its customers demand. In doing so, various topic areas are addressed correspondingly. These areas of high relevance for our customers are, for example virtualization, cloud and SAP environments. General...

White paper Looking for the Fast Track to Your Data Center Infrastructure? What makes PRIMEFLEX different? Although most has been said, let us recapitulate what makes PRIMEFLEX different. Fujitsu provides flexibility and choice in various regards: in terms of architecture (classical converged or hyper-converged), in terms of the storage used in classical converged systems (hybrid or all-flash from either Fujitsu or NetApp), in terms of virtualization software and cloud management software (VMware, Microsoft, Nutanix), in terms of licensing (OEM, resale or bring your own), in terms of configurations...