Fujitsu Bringing Out Primergy CX420 for SMBs

Affordably priced, simple to operate, for SMBs with limited IT expertise and budgets, Fujitsu Technology Solutions introduces a solution intended to provide peace of mind for SMBs that rely on information and communications technology to do optimized business.

Launched at CeBIT, the Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX420 introduces simplified clustering technology designed to help extend system uptime and protect BC in the event of an ICT system failure.

As companies of all sizes in all market segments increasingly rely on ICT to run their business, this has increased the impact of an unplanned system failure, such as a server crash. For a company taking orders online, unplanned server downtime may have disastrous consequences in terms of lost and delayed orders.

Until now, sophisticated failover technology promising greater uptime – and therefore better BC – has been too expensive and complicated for SMBs. Fujitsu is changing that with the introduction of its new PRIMERGY CX420 dual-node cluster server, which is designed to deliver system HA for organizations with limited ICT expertise and budgets. As simple to run as an industry-standard server, the PRIMERGY CX420 provides added assurance through built-in system failover, ensuring that technology glitches have a minimal impact on day-to-day business.

Clustering provides higher availability, greater resilience
The PRIMERGY CX420 S1 is a dual-node cluster server platform, meaning that it is made up of two individual PRIMERGY CX272 S1 server nodes located side-by-side within the unit. It leverages new HA features provided with Windows Server 2012 to introduce clustering at low price. Should one of the two cluster nodes fail, then the system fail-safe triggers an automatic start for the other, which will normally be online and functional within minutes. This process is known as failover and although it does not provide continuous uptime in the case of a system failure, it does minimize unplanned downtime and service disruption.

Ready to run out-of-the-box, the PRIMERGY CX420 comes packed with internal shared storage space, meaning that additional external storage is usually no longer needed. Complicated hard drive RAID controllers are also replaced by simpler and cheaper SAS via an HBA, while the built-in Storage Spaces functionality in Windows Server 2012 provides a less capital-intensive approach.

Uwe Neumeier, VP, PRIMERGY business at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, said: "Unplanned server downtime costs time and money, not to mention the inconvenience. Today, SMBs rely on ICT just as much as large enterprises, but have been held back from implementing HA technology due to the cost and complexity. We are addressing this with the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX420 server, which is in a class of its own, offering a proven and affordable out-of-the-box server solution designed to prevent IT downtime, without the big-business price tag."

The PRIMERGY CX420 S1 and PRIMERGY CX272 S1 were available in Europe in March starting at €13,000.