Why Oracle chose Fujitsu

To help companies reduce IT risk, reduce ownership cost and take advantage of innovative business solutions, the Fujitsu Group has created a strategic framework for improving the manageability, flexibility and availability of systems. Oracle Corporation and the Fujitsu Group have worked for more than 16 years in a strategic alliance that encompasses product development, marketing, and sales.

Fujitsu Group is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Oracle has global strategic partnerships with the Fujitsu Group, including Fujitsu Limited and its subsidiaries, Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Fujitsu America

Oracle technology is a key component in the Fujitsu Group's range of servers running the Linux, Windows or Solaris operating systems on either Intel or SPARC platforms. The Fujitsu Group meets the needs of the world's largest and most progressive users of information technology through enterprise and e-business open systems server and storage solutions. The Fujitsu Group has the world's third-largest IT services organization, which covers everything from large scale systems construction to IT and web integration, strategic planning, system design, operation, maintenance and support.

Performance

Fujitsu Group servers have demonstrated high levels of performance - an important factor in supporting Oracle9i Real Application Clusters and other Oracle technologies.

» SPECint®2000, SPECint®_rate2000 and SPECjbb®2000: PRIMEPOWER has set the highest results of any SPARC compliant processor in Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®) performance records.
» In the Oracle Applications standard benchmark, Fujitsu Servers turned in the top performance (as of November 2002) for eight-CPU systems with a SPARC-based PRIMEPOWER 850 eight-processor database server running the Solaris Operating Environment, four PRIMEPOWER 400 four-processor application servers, and Oracle Applications 11.5.6. The system supported 6,272 users with an average response time of 1.07 seconds.
» 128-Processor PRIMEPOWER 2500 server gains highest rating ever in two-tier SAP Standard Application SD benchmark running Oracle9i database release 2.
» PRIMEPOWER outperformed competition by supporting 34,260 assembly orders per hour in the SAP Assemble-To-Order two-tier Standard Application benchmark, using the Oracle 8.1.7 Database.

High Availability

The Fujitsu Group has a number of offerings that can help companies create and implement high-availability technology platforms.

» Industry standard Intel-based PRIMERGY servers and SPARC64-based PRIMEPOWER servers. Reliability is built into these servers at the hardware level, with redundancy in many components to eliminate single points of failure. In terms of scalability, PRIMERGY systems support up to eight processors, while PRIMEPOWER servers scale to 128 processors in a single system. And for enhanced flexibility, Fujitsu offers a capacity-on-demand environment that allows companies to have additional resources pre-installed in a server, and then purchase and activate those resources permanently to match growing workloads, or temporarily to meet unexpected peaks.
» PRIMECLUSTER technology, which provides a powerful, cost-effective way to link servers together to maximize the availability and scalability of the IT infrastructure. The PRIMECLUSTER product suite offers sophisticated cluster fail over management, support for parallel databases, and dynamic load balancing.
» Extended Partitioning (XPAR) technology, which is available on several PRIMEPOWER servers, enables IT departments to create multiple operating environments by splitting system boards into a number of partitions. Up to 15 partitions can be created on a server, with a given partition consisting of as few as one or two CPUs, depending on the model. The combination of XPAR and DR enables Oracle9i Real Application Clusters to reallocate resources flexibly. Thus servers can be scaled dynamically to suit the changes in work loads without rebooting the server. This streamlined workload redistribution allows companies to minimize total cost of ownership, and efficiently handle unpredictable workloads and changing business needs.