Fujitsu Expanded Storage Eternus Systems Offer With Help of NetApp

Fujitsu Ltd. announced the expansion of its storage portfolio with 4 series of the storage Eternus systems, that leverage NetApp, Inc.‘s advanced data management software.

This launch represents the next step of the company’s strategic partnership with NetApp in offering a data management infrastructure that supports digital transformation.

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About strategic initiative
The expanded global partnership between the 2 companies delivers enhancements to the company’s storage portfolio. Strengthening its Eternus storage product portfolio based on NetApp technology, the firm, as part of its efforts to deliver a data management infrastructure, is introducing entry and mid-range models: Eternus AB,  HB, AX and HX ⁽¹⁾. These products will help customers leverage data faster with lower operational management costs.

Eternus AB and HB series

Eternus AB and HB series are for databases used in customers’ mission-critical systems and for scientific computing systems used in HPC. These series realizes the high-speed data processing ⁽²⁾ that maximizes the performance of SSDs ⁽³⁾, and high-volume data communication ⁽⁴⁾ with servers by supporting advanced data transaction protocol. Also, in hybrid cloud environments that combine on-premises and public clouds, customers can reduce operational and administrative costs by transferring data for backup archives to the public cloud.

Eternus AX and HX series are for virtualized systems and file servers. These series offer both the high response performance required by virtualized systems through block access and simplified data management with file access, all in one storage.

These series non-disruptively scales up storage nodes up to maximum of 24 nodes and 26PB as capacity and performance demands increase, and automatically routes data to data centers and public clouds based on how often it is accessed, enabling cost-balanced and efficient operations.

Future plans
In the future, the company intends to introduce solutions that leverage NetApp technologies for AI, hybrid cloud and HPC by combining the products and technologies of the 2 companies, planning to offer them by the end of 2020.

This includes the development of AI solutions that combine the firm’s servers with NetApp’s storage to reduce the time it takes to design and build AI systems and learn vast amounts of data. For HPC, Fujitsu will combine the high-performance scalable file systems and data-processing technologies with NetApp storage solutions to enable advanced simulation and analysis under complex conditions.

The company also plans to develop a hybrid cloud solution leveraging NetApp Cloud Data Services that can manage private and public cloud environments in the data center with a single storage OS.

Brad Anderson, EVP and GM, hybrid cloud group, NetApp, comments: “Fujitsu has been a strategic partner for NetApp for more than two decades, and we are delighted to expand this relationship further. This collaboration combined with Fujitsu’s broader digital transformation strategy offers customers a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions, targeted at critical business applications, as well as emerging workloads across edge, core, and multi-clouds.“

Kenichi Sakai, corporate executive officer, SVP and head, infrastructure system business unit, Fujitsu, commented: “To succeed in digital transformation, it is important to create new value from all the data you have and make it the core of your business. We see this enhanced strategic partnership with NetApp as a critical step in supporting digital transformation by enabling customers to effectively manage and leverage their data.“

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^[1] Eternus AB, HB, AX and HX
Eternus AB/HB will be rolled out worldwide, starting in Japan and Europe. Eternus AX/HX will initially be available in Japan, with future availability in regions outside of Europe.
^[2] High-Speed Data Processing
Uses NVMe, an alternative to SCSI and SAS, for the host interface that communicates between servers and storage and the SSD that stores data in storage. Reads and writes data as many as 1 million times per second.
^[3] SSD
SSDs. A drive device using a flash memory which is a semiconductor memory element.
^[4] High-Volume Data Communications
Uses IB, a protocol that connects servers and storage over a wide bandwidth, enabling to send and receive massive amounts of data.

Resources:
Eternus AB2100 DS
Eternus AB5100 DS
Eternus AB6100 DS
Eternus HB1100 DS
Eternus HB1200 DS
Eternus HB2100 DS
Eternus HB2200 DS
Eternus HB2300 DS
Eternus HB5100 DS
Eternus HB5200 DS

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