White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers White paper Why PRIMEFLEX® Attracts Service Providers 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, reduces costs and increases operational efficiency for service providers. Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor Content What is happening in the service provider market? 2 Building a data center infrastructure is complex 2 FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX 2 Best-in-class components and long experience 3 Delivery models 3 Flexible services options 4 PRIMEFLEX includes hyper-converged systems 4 Classical or hyper-converged – use cases matter 4 PRIMEFLEX use cases 6 PRIMEFLEX for SAP HANA® 7 PRIMEFLEX for SAP® Landscapes 7 PRIMEFLEX for Virtualization and Cloud 8 - PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSphere 9 - PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN 9 - PRIMEFLEX for VMware Cloud Foundation 9 - PRIMEFLEX for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI 9 - PRIMEFLEX for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub 9 - PRIMEFLEX for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud 9 Converged lifecycle management 10 FUJITSU Enterprise Service Catalog Manager 10 Summary 10

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers What is happening in the service provider market? Let us start with a good message: More and more businesses are looking at IT service providers, because they cannot afford doing everything on their own, and they quite honestly do not have the resources and skills to do so. Some of them use a managed service, turning the operation of their systems over to an expert partner. Others move things to the cloud and allow cloud service providers to manage it – paying for only what they need. The cloud services themselves are hosted in a data center...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers The subsequent figure demonstrates quite impressively the enormous savings in time that can be achieved by choosing the Integrated Systems approach instead of the DIY approach. Project start TEST – Work off complex test matrixs INTEGRATE – Assemble involving multiple admin domains DESIGN – Select from myriad of SW and HW products Do-it-yourself approach Integrated Systems approach TEST – End-to-end quality assurance INTEGRATE – Pre-integrated single order delivery DEPLOY Integrate into production environment DEPLOY Integrate into production...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers Flexible services options PRIMEFLEX is not just about hardware and software bundles; it is supplemented by flexible services options throughout all lifecycle phases. These services options encompass consulting, design onsite deployment, integration of the new infrastructure into the existing environment and migration services, lifecycle management and overall solution support with a single point of contact. If you don’t have the resources to operate the data center infrastructure, Fujitsu will provide Managed Data Center and Hosting Services...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers Hyper-converged has become an attractive option for remote offices and branch offices. As no external storage infrastructure needs to be maintained, frequent costly onsite visits can be avoided. There are customer cases where travel time could be reduced by 99%, just by replacing a physical SAN by a hyper-converged infrastructure. If your workloads benefit from the data services coming with hyperconverged, you may use these services without any additional investment. If you don’t need them, you will pay indirectly for things you don’t use....

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers PRIMEFLEX use cases PRIMEFLEX is focused on business-critical areas being of high relevance for service providers too, such as Virtualization, Cloud and SAP environments. The portfolio elements allocated for Virtualization and Cloud are built for general purposes, while those allocated to SAP environments are purpose-built systems, optimized for this specific use case area. Evidenced by an ever-increasing number of reference customers who have achieved tangible business benefits, PRIMEFLEX has been implemented across different industry segments...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers PRIMEFLEX for SAP HANA® Today’s businesses require speed. However, due to ever-increasing data volumes, and the long lasting access times resulting from it, a real-time insight into the business is difficult or even impossible. This means, that existing data cannot be turned into valuable business information. For this reason, SAP introduced their In-Memory Database platform HANA. All data is stored and processed in the main memory of one or several servers, can therefore be accessed and processed rapidly, and results are instantly available...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Con Microsoft Azure Stack HCI VMware Cloud Foundation VMware vSphere Classic converged PRIMEFLEX for Virtualization and Cloud The virtualization of computing resources has greatly improved data center operations over the past decade. To provide the operational efficiency and agility necessary to cope with the ever-increasing demand for more responsive and cost-efficient IT support, service providers are now looking to extend virtualization to storage and network resources by adopting a strategy for establishing the...

White paper Why PRIMEFLEX Attracts Service Providers Powered by PRIMERGY x86-servers, PRIMEFLEX benefits from all their proven values. Fujitsu x86-servers provide the best performing server platform for running VMware virtual machines. Their long and proven track record is reflected in top rankings across all VMware VMmark benchmark categories. Its patented Cool-Safe® technology drives world records for energy efficiency. Moreover, PRIMERGY is shown as a leading platform in global server reliability reports. All this translates into more revenue and margin opportunities for service providers...