Amdahl Unveils Its Powerful Infrastructure Solutions for the Data Centers of the Next Millennium.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998--

Jeff Brooker, commercial manager at British Airways stated: "It is

pleasing that one of our key suppliers can adapt to meet our

changing needs. Through this new contract, Amdahl will help us

continue to run a world class data center operation."

"Today's announcement of the Millennium 800 Series processors, means that Amdahl now has a road map that will take our customers to the most complete and powerful data centers of the 21st century," said Greg R. Grodhaus, senior vice president of marketing, Amdahl Corporation. "With our System/390(R)-compatible CMOS processors, Sun Solaris-based servers, and award winning Microsoft Windows NT(R) servers, combined with Amdahl's software, services and expertise in MVS(R), Windows NT and UNIX(R), there is no reason to go anywhere else for enterprise data center infrastructure solutions."

To meet the challenge of deploying tomorrow's technology and controlling the total cost of distributed systems, data centers are taking on responsibility for centralizing and consolidating UNIX and Windows NT systems, with their legacy S/390(R) resources. In all three operating environments, Amdahl now offers resource consolidation and interoperability solutions that enable these business-critical platforms to share data and work together.

INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS FOR AMDAHL MILLENNIUM SERVER CUSTOMERS

Amdahl infrastructure solutions address data center challenges from every angle. Amdahl is leading the way into the 21st century by providing solutions that will enable companies to have a seamless transition into the next millennium. Amdahl customers, who operate in some of the most demanding computer environments, are already taking advantage of these radical infrastructure solutions. For example:

Technology Migration Solution - A large urban county in the United States turned to Amdahl for a technology migration and cost-reduction solution. The county now relies on a Millennium server to provide enterprise information access to thousands of employees across the whole range of county operations and services. The county migrated from an older ECL system to the compact Millennium CMOS server, and used TDMF(tm) to move data to Amdahl Spectris(tm) storage without any downtime or overtime costs. With the Amdahl solution the county slashed annual costs and reallocated the savings to improved services for its citizens

Data Center Consolidation Solution Using MSF - Amdahl's exclusive Multiple Server Feature(tm) (MSF) makes the Millennium family of servers an ideal basis for consolidation solutions. MSF allowed a public utility company to not only reduce hardware and operating costs, but to control software costs as well. By consolidating onto three separate MSF servers within the 12-way system, the company improved hardware resource utilization, reduced maintenance costs, and controlled software costs. Recommendations from the Amdahl Software Value Assessment (SVA) Service helped the company match server configuration with application requirements.

SAP R/3 Implementation Solution - Amdahl has been implementing SAP(R) solutions since the late 1970's. With the recent certification of Millennium servers for SAP/R3, Amdahl has increased the scope of its SAP solutions. One example of Amdahl's SAP expertise is an automobile manufacturer that adopted the SAP R/3 suite of applications for financial accounting, sales and distribution, production planning, manufacturing control, and profit analysis.

Parallel Sysplex Implementation Solution - Amdahl provides the essential system components and a complete suite of services for a rapid, low-risk Parallel Sysplex implementation. A major credit card and financial services company using Millennium servers made the strategic move to Parallel Sysplex for two reasons. This user needs massive scalability to support business-critical applications that are rapidly outgrowing even the largest standalone processor. The ultimate goal is continuous availability to serve its global customers. The Amdahl Planning Service for Parallel Sysplex helped the company map out a comprehensive migration strategy for the entire infrastructure, starting with a CICS system that serves European customers and needed improved availability.

About Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS, Windows NT, and UNIX operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries.

For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k

Amdahl is a registered trademark, Millennium, MSF and Spectris are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. Fujitsu is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited. SAP, SAP R/3 and SAP R/2 are registered trademarks of SAP AG, Inc. MVS, System/390, S/390 and CICS are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Sun is a registered trademark and Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through the Open Software Foundation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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