Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Platform Re-Writes Cloud Computing Price-Performance Rules

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Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Platform Re-Writes Cloud Computing Price-Performance Rules
Fujitsu unveils revolutionary scale-out Cloud eXtension architecture, does away with need for hot aisle

London, 17th March 2010 — Fujitsu today rewrites the data centre rule book in introducing the revolutionary PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server.
The PRIMERGY CX1000 provides unprecedented levels of scale-out capability, ideal for Cloud environments, and sets new standards
in data centre economics by optimising the operating cost drivers of power, heat and space.

The PRIMERGY CX1000 is designed from the ground up to deliver as much computing power as possible per square meter, at the
lowest-possible price, packing 38 server nodes into a rack to provide minimum savings of 20% in power and cooling in comparison
to a standard rack server assembly. The PRIMERGY CX adds a new class of server to the current Fujitsu x86 line-up of PRIMERGY
blade (BX), rack (RX) and tower (TX) models, and becomes a cornerstone of Fujitsus overall Infrastructure-as-a-Service strategy
with which we take another step on the way to a service-oriented, platform-based delivery model for IT services.

With the PRIMERGY CX1000, Fujitsu unveils a creative new Cool-Central™ architecture that also saves space by removing
the need for the data centre hot aisle – the space behind racks where hot air is blown out of the back of running servers.
Instead, the PRIMERGY CX1000 features an internal chimney that funnels hot air through the top of the standard-size rack.
This allows for rows of PRIMERGY CX1000 racks to be placed back-to-back, resulting in floor-space savings alone of up to 40%.

This revolutionary approach also translates into significant carbon reductions for data centre operators. Fujitsu Group has
embarked on a global Green ICT initiative, Green Policy Innovation, aimed at helping customers achieve their environmental
commitments. Breakthrough technologies like the PRIMERGY CX1000, designed to dramatically reduce environmental footprints,
will be an important part of achieving this mission.

Back-to-basics design ethos

The PRIMERGY CX1000s back-to-basics approach to individual components does away with the need for full system redundancy
and hot-pluggable components. Within massive scale-out applications and fully-virtualised system environments, services running
on non-responding servers are simply switched by software from one to another server and restarted.

Built on off-the-shelf components, the simplistic design concept of the PRIMERGY CX1000 is to replace individual server nodes
in case of a system failure – then replace faulty components offline. Adding and removing nodes is a snap, thanks to the PRIMERGY
CX1000s shared infrastructure – with centralised power distribution and cooling.

Cloud computing demands have caught data centre operators in a vicious circle of performance and cost, says Joe Duran, product manager PRIMERGY, Fujitsu UK & Ireland. Today, the battles are being won and lost on the plains of price-performance. With the PRIMERGY CX1000 were introducing
a solution that goes beyond the scale-out performance envelope of rack servers – without blowing budgets – which is especially
compelling in Cloud computing environments.

New products require new services, and new services are realised by new products. The PRIMERGY CX1000 introduces a new hybrid
approach ensuring that we meet every customers unique demand: cost efficiency gains from implementing standardised services
such as IaaS, plus the flexibility to add customised services such as managed services, concludes Duran.

The PRIMERGY CX1000 system features the new generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, which delivers unprecedented
levels of processing power. Raejeanne Skillern, director of Cloud Computing Marketing at Intel Corporation, says: Intel and Fujitsu have a long and successful history of partnering to bring valuable combinations of Intel-based PRIMERGY
servers to the IT server marketplace. With the launch of Intels new Xeon 5600 processor series (code name Westmere-EP), Intel
welcomes the next generation of broad server offerings from Fujitsus PRIMERGY product line, and Intel is especially delighted
with Fujitsus new PRIMERGY CX1000.

Pictures of the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 are available at: http://mediaserver.ts.fujitsu.com/photoserver/index.cfm?fuseaction=list&CFID=2795489&CFTOKEN=96527439&fid=12421

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees
supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable
computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in
Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.

Fujitsu UK and Ireland is a leading IT systems, services and products company employing 14,000 people with an annual revenue
of £2 billion. Its business is in enabling its customers to realise their objectives by exploiting information technology
through its integrated product and service portfolio. This includes consulting, applications, systems integration, managed
services and products for customers in the private and public sectors including retail, financial services, telecoms, government,
defence and consumer sectors. For more information, please see: uk.fujitsu.com

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