Fujitsu Launches Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks)

DI Blocks enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers.

Fujitsu, a technology services and solutions provider, yesterday announced the global launch of Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks), which enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers. Enterprises gain a competitive edge from DI Blocks by ensuring that their IT operations are always available to meet changing business needs, and ready for on-premise private cloud infrastructures.

The company articulates that being a powerful but simple interface to fully-automated data center resources, DI Blocks are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network, and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software. Pools of infrastructure resources in data centers enable enterprises to quickly and easily provision IT services. As the needs of enterprise business change, DI Blocks provide an escape from the complexity and rigidity of last-generation silo technology. Data centers are transformed into highly-flexible and powerful automated pools of computing resources. Furthermore, integration and lifetime services including hardware and operating system maintenance can be provided by the company's consulting and operations support services.

It mentions that pre-integrated and factory-configured, customized DI Blocks enable enterprises to move towards scaled-out private cloud-based computing environments. Total cost of ownership is reduced by improving the overall use of server, storage, software, and networking components. IT resources are allocated on-demand, delivering improved productivity by provisioning logical infrastructure environments within minutes.

According to the company, enterprises can dynamically assign computing components as and when needed with management software such as its ServerView Resource Orchestrator which manages all physical and virtual elements, including leading virtualization technology from the company's partners, VMware and Microsoft. ServerView Resource Orchestrator supports the flexible and rapid utilization of IT resources in private clouds through dynamic resource management for physical and virtual computing resources and levers the company's public cloud expertise.

It says that DI Blocks are dedicated appliances for enterprise virtualization and private cloud infrastructures. The first set of DI Blocks will be commercially available in January 2012. Availability may vary by region. Pricing varies according to configuration. Starting at 48 cores, DI Blocks system configurations scale to more than 1700 Intel Xeon 5600 series cores, with memory of up to almost 21,000 GB and disk storage capacities of more than 900 TB, requiring 10 GB Ethernet or 8 GB Fiber Channel networks.

Yoichi Hori, President of Platform Software Unit at Fujitsu Limited said, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create flexible, future-proof systems that are agile enough to meet ever-changing needs. This represents a major shift in how forward-looking companies are making the move to IT that supports their needs, rather than being restricted by rigid, outdated systems."