Sistina Software and Fujitsu Systems Europe partner to push Linux clusters into the enterprise data center.Sistina Software Sistina Software was an organization that focused on storage solutions architected around a Linux platform. They were acquired by Red Hat in December, 2003. Their two primary offerings were Global File System (GFS) and logical volume management (LVM). and Fujitsu Systems Europe have announced that Fujitsu Systems Europe has selected Sistina GFS See Google File System. GFS - Grandfather, Father, Son as the exclusive cluster file system running on Fujitsu's line of High Performance Computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) clustering solutions. Through this partnership, Sistina and Fujitsu will provide customers and partners with Fujitsu's first pre-configured and packaged Linux cluster solution for both industrial computing applications and enterprise-class data center deployments. Through this alliance, Fujitsu and Sistina are responding to strong demand from a variety of industries that includes customers in the automotive/aerospace, financial, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and film/video markets. This new joint Linux offering provides a simplified process for customers and partners who are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a single point of contact for all product, service and support transactions. "Based on recent market trends, we expect to see a significant increase in demand for blade serving and clustering technologies," said Naoya Tamura, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Fujitsu Systems Europe. "Fujitsu's partnership with Sistina bolsters our capabilities to provide our customers with exactly what they're asking for--industry-leading file clustering solutions for enterprise and HPC data centers. Sistina GFS combined with cutting-edge Fujitsu hardware delivers blazing performance and high-availability in a single package, providing corporate customers with an industry-proven, simplified solution." "Fujitsu's expansive reach into the European market coupled with its hpcLine of Intel-based Linux clusters made this partnership a win for Sistina and especially for Sistina GFS customers in the automotive and financial sectors," said Brad Ferguson Bradley Michael Ferguson (born 1953), is an American science fiction writer. Before becoming a freelance writer he worked as a writer, editor and producer for CBS Radio News in New York. He is married to scientist Kathi Ferguson, with whom he collaborated on one novel. , vice president of sales and services, Sistina Software. "Through this partnership, Sistina and Fujitsu will offer customers unparalleled product solutions and service packages that not only provide greater price/performance benefits to the organization, but also fuel the growth of Linux as an enterprise-level, data-sharing platform." Recognized as the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. cluster file system on Linux, Sistina GFS is a highly stable solution for enterprise users requiring reliable access to data. Through this alliance, Sistina GFS is being distributed as part of Fujitsu's first pre-configured Linux cluster offering on its new 3.06 GHz dual Intel Xeon processor-based server hardware. Joint customers will be able to deploy a solution that combines Intel-based Fujitsu servers and Sistina GFS, consolidating existing server and storage resources into a single management domain, linking thousands of diverse data storage repositories into a massively scalable, secure and robust storage area network (SAN). "This is a major play for both companies," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. "Sistina's technology gains huge credibility with a mass market server vendor, and Fujitsu becomes one of the first to provide customers all the benefits of a commercial clustered file system A clustered file system is a file system which is simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system. to the HPC market." The Fujitsu hpcLine is a very compact, rack-integrated, Linux cluster system for engineering applications. Built from high-performance system components, it is rigorously tested for production use, and deployed in scalable configurations that include systems with hundreds of processors. Compute node variants are available with Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, Intel Itanium 2, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon and AMD Opteron processors. The standard interconnect is Fast Ethernet, with Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. or Myrinet high-bandwidth interconnects available as an option. RedHat Linux is used for the widest support of qualified third-party application software. |
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