Fujitsu, in a bid to offer enterprises greater flexibility, is making its ETERNUS DX60/DX80 systems available in a choice of three base models - Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or SAS. In addition, enterprise-class Solid State Drives (SSD) will allow ETERNUS DX80 to serve service levels for business-critical applications, which require the highest IOs per second. These enhancements will offer customers new ways to interface and lower their operational costs.
Dr. Helmut Beck, Vice President Storage Business at Fujitsu Technology Solutions says: "The Fibre Channel versions of both systems had a great start and have been selling very well since their launch in June. The enhancements of the ETERNUS DX60/DX80 now provide further customer benefits, e.g. Solid State Drives allow higher performance levels, particularly to support database operation.
With the launch of the new interfaces, we expand not only our Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio but we also successfully position ourselves in further market segments."
ETERNUS DX60 and ETERNUS DX80 are a new generation of disk storage systems with enterprise-class reliability, especially designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. They include lower-cost Nearline SAS drives instead of the more expensive SAS drives.
The ETERNUS DX60/DX80 series are known for lower operational costs, easier configuration and energy efficiency. A high-performance Fibre Channel model of the ETERNUS DX80 offers 8 Gigabit-per-second connection speeds to server hosts. ETERNUS systems are easy to install and manage, with a graphic user interface and installation wizard that makes it easy to use and install.
