Disk Storage Systems Case Studies

Taiheiyo Cement
ETERNUS4000 model 500 storage, introduced following server consolidation using PRIMERGY blades, provided this leading cement industry company, looking to expand overseas, with an integrated backup environment and cost-efficient disaster recovery using iSCSI.

Skymark Airlines
This popular low fare airline company enhanced its reservation system, providing a streamlined and efficient user environment able to handle exceptional customer growth. The clustered server configuration and introduction of ETERNUS4000 played an important role in eliminating I/O delays and improving management of the IT environment and all operational data.

ETERNUS8000

(Includes ETERNUS6000 and GR740, predecessors of ETERNUS8000.)

• Shiga bank (Japan)
  Linux replaced the mission critical system for cost efficiency as well as flexibility, scalability and robustness. ETERNUS8000 configured with mirroring function was used as shared storage for both the accounting system, GS21 500 mainframe, and the information system, PRIMEQUEST 580. In addition the Advanced Copy function significantly shortened the required backup operation system downtime.
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation ETERNUS6000 (Japan)
  Reconstruction of the corporate Internet banking service was undertaken using a combination of PRIMERGY Servers, the Linux operating system, ETERNUS6000 as the consolidated storage system and Oracle RAC. The resulting system is flexible, scalable, and able to handle the rapid increases in service users.
• PDF Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, (Japan)
  Fujitsu's BASIS service and Solaris™ Operating Environment PRIMEPOWER server contribute to a reliable SAP R/3 infrastructure. ETERNUS GR740 helps keep operation downtime to minimum with it's OPC function.
• PDF Japan Meteorological Agency, (Japan)
  ADESS (Automated Data Editing and Switching System for meteorological information).
  New mission critical system for weather observation and forecasts across Japan was built in just eighteen months. ETERNUS6000 and ETERNUS3000 were chosen to support 24 x 7 continuous operation where no interruption is allowed.

ETERNUS4000

(Includes ETERNUS3000 and GR700 series [except GR740], predecessors of ETERNUS4000.)

• Lotte World (Korea)
  The world’s largest indoor theme park chose a mission critical PRIMEQUEST Windows cluster system to deliver, highly available, robust and flexible 24 hour operation. ETERNUS was also chosen as the high reliability external storage replacement, in support of this server operation.
• TIS (Japan)
  A solid mix of PRIMERGY Blades, PRIMEQUEST mission critical back-end servers and matching ETERNUS storage provides the TCO benefits.
• Ichibanya Company Limited (Japan)
  Ichibanya Company Limited accomplished their server consolidation using Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 rack-mounted servers, VMware HA and a SAN-connected ETERNUS4000 storage device for improved IT efficiency.
  Note: The sale of ETERNUS4000 model 80 was terminated. The successor product is ETERNUS2000 model 100.
• Sejoong Namo Tour (Korea)
  Multiple servers, different operating systems and databases were all integrated into a single, large mission critical industry server. Now the ability to use SANBoot configuration with ETERNUS4000 model 300 disk storage, provides a better guarantee high-availability and high-reliability with the new travel industry system.
• PDF Hay Group (United States)
  With Fujitsu ETERNUS storage, Hay Group, a global human resources management consulting firm with 88 offices in 47 countries and more than 7,000 clients, has simplified storage management and reduced its IT footprint in the data center and office space by 66 percent resulting in substantial cost and energy savings. (Fujitsu Computer Systems Press Release)
• Nagoya University Hospital (Japan)
  Improved medical care and reduced treatment times, as well as enhanced office automation, were the reasons this major regional hospital re-implementation their total information system. A combination of centralized ETERNUS4000 storage, PRIMERGY BX620 S3 blade servers and SAN boot functions delivered the high reliability to each department that achieving those goals.
• PDF DAIICHI SANKYO CO, LTD (Japan)
  Followed the business merger of two major pharmaceutical companies, Fujitsu's Mission Critical PRIMEQUEST580, Industry standard PRIMERGY, and PRIMEPOWER UNIX servers were selected to cope with dynamic increases in data. In combination with ETERNUS4000 model 500 storage they removed the bottlenecks in the new company's system infrastructure that stood in the way of business progress.
• PDF Anthony Marano Company (United States)
  Produce distributor, Anthony Marano Company, improved availability from 95% to 99.999% ensuring the performance and reliability of its real-time inventory management, setting them on target for 20% year on year growth. (Fujitsu Computer Systems Press Release)
• PDF Ceryx (United States)
  Facing increasing customer storage requirements, Ceryx selected ETERNUS storage to replace its dispersedly managed DAS. The ETERNUS high reliability, centralized management, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) allowed continued storage capacity growth at much lower cost. (Fujitsu Computer Systems Press Release)
• Tsu Municipal Government
  With a PRIMEQUEST 64-bit mission critical IA server eliminating system bottlenecks, ETERNUS3000 was introduced for storage of 300,000 citizens' records. The result was stable and secure operation with improved services from the data duplication mechanism.
• Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan)
  Shibaura Institute of Technology planned its migration to an Intel® Itanium® 2 server to coincide with relocation from its Shibaura campus to a new campus in Toyosu. An ETERNUS3000 now supports their large scale database, enabled application server consolidation, and simplifies system development in long-term student information management.
• Tokyo Denki University (Japan)
  Following on from 5 years of trouble free ETERNUS operation, ETERNUS was once again selected for the University's new system. The aim was to make backup operation far more effective using the OPC function. Around 20 servers in separate locations across three campuses would be integrated using virtualization software, and substantial TCO reductions would be enabled.
• Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
  Development and implementation of a new Storage Area Network (SAN) and e-mail archiving and management solution, based on Symantec's Enterprise Vault software and Fujitsu's ETERNUS SAN Storage System.
• Kirin Brewery Co.,LTD. (Japan)
  The new PRIMERGY, ETERNUS3000 and MySAP SRM purchasing information system has greatly reduced the cost of indirect material's procurement and successfully improved business application efficiency.
• Maruzen Co., Ltd (Japan)
  Creation of a One-Stop-Shop web shopping site, based on the high availability and future scalability of Linux on PRIMERGY. ETERNUS3000 provides high reliability as the shared storage.
• PDF Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd., (Japan)
  Through the renovation of POS systems in branch offices to web-based systems and by consolidating all the entry data to the data center, where PRIMEPOWER connected to ETERNUS supports as a key database server, this major travel service company came to have an effective system environment.
• Modern Terminals Limited, (Hong Kong)
  Hong Kong's leading container terminal operator benefits from cost efficiencies and higher response to user demands in operational applications following server consolidation to Fujitsu, including adoption of ETERNUS3000.
• PDF Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., (Japan)
  For high accuracy and precision in forecasting system delivery, a business critical strategy was constructed with Fujitsu's support.
• PDF The Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange, (Japan)
  The new system consisting of PRIMEPOWER, ETERNUS and PRIMERGY guarantees fast product development and mission critical system support for International Futures trading.
• PDF TUV Rheinland, (Japan)
  PRIMEPOWER was chosen to build the cluster system together with ETERNUS GR720 following the migration of SAP R/3 systems, OS and platforms.