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Fujitsu Computer Systems has made significant improvements to its «www.internetnews.com», improving performance and reducing energy consumption.

The improved performance is designed to give users faster access to data, quicker application access as well as more efficient and stable communication between the server blades and other system components. The Primergy BX600 S3 blade chassis features a new midplane that Fujitsu said offers three times the I/O throughput of earlier models.

With interfaces for up to 60 1Gbit Ethernet cables and end-to-end Fiber Channel connections, the system offers speeds up to 4Gbits per second. A big part of the performance story is a new Primergy BX620 S4 blade based on Intel’s latest Xeon 5300 quad-core processor.

The BX620 S4 recently set a world record SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark for dual-socket servers, according to Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Fujitsu Computer Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited.

A BX620 S4 blade server running two quad-core 2.66GHz Intel Xeon X5355 processors (8 Cores, 8 Threads) with SAP ERP 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 2005 with 1,870 users resulted in an average dialogue response time of 1.95 seconds.

IDC analyst Jean Bozman said better I/O performance helps makes blade systems in general, and Fujitsu’s in particular, more attractive to enterprise customers. “The I/O throughput is very important for database and line of business applications,” Bozman told internetnews.com. “For any enterprise application where you have to update a database, and that includes multi-tiered applications like CRM and Microsoft Exchange, there’s a lot of I/0 traffic.”

Check out this news about Fujitsu improving its blade chassis which has to be a good thing, this is set to further enhance the Fujitsu blade offering which has to bring more choice to the consumer which has to be a good thing. Will need to read up and find out more.

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