Fujitsu launches new x10sure 3.0

Fujitsu's has launched the x10sure, designed to provide SMEs with cost-effective high availability alternative to clustered hot-spare servers.

With the introduction of its third-generation x10sure solution, the company said it has lowered the barriers holding small and medium-sized businesses back from exploiting the massive price-performance benefits of server virtualisation - without risking the domino effect of multiple virtual machine crashes due to the failure of a single physical host.

Designed to provide new levels of high availability at lowered price points, and without the need for replicating systems with unproductive "hot-spare" servers in standby, the powerful new edition of x10sure allows the consolidation of physical and virtual server environments into dynamic infrastructures, also delivering much-needed peace-of-mind through providing essential system failover protection.

The company said the new system can automatically recover from physical server layer failures and restart all impacted virtual machines on a newly-introduced spare with minimal service interruption, providing enhanced protection against unplanned downtime and data loss through server, fabric and storage failure.

IT administrators will enjoy a number of other new benefits of the x10sure 3.0, including a new graphical user interface, integration with SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and an open interface for interoperability with external systems.

In addition, x10sure's new version offers Variable Disaster Recovery concepts that include Control Node redundancy, Site Awareness and Service Importance and Site/Service Failover along with storage replication solutions.

The new-generation x10sure is available directly from Fujitsu and via qualified partners. Fujitsu Technology Solutions are represented in Malta by Merlin Computers Ltd of Ħamrun.

www.merlinmalta.com