Fujitsu vShape integrates latest storage cluster technologies

In a move that makes the Fujitsu reference architecture more scalable and even easier for customers to manage, Fujitsu has synchronised all elements for defined software package sizes, and Fujitsu vShape is validated by all three vendors as a single solution. For customers, the benefit is the peace of mind and convenience of an architecture with proven scalability, all managed via a single point of contact.

It is this flexibility that makes Fujitsu’s latest vShape solution ideal for the enterprise, in contrast to offerings from other vendors, which depend on local hardware or servers in order to scale to meet ever-increasing storage demands.

The fully virtualised Fujitsu vShape solution is a dedicated enterprise-class appliance that is specifically designed to cope with even as-yet-unknown infrastructure demands. This ensures that Information and Communication Technology systems are flexible enough to support businesses by coping with future use cases, as well as directly addressing the continued headache of managing rapid data growth. As a result, vShape allows enterprises to scale out within a single storage system, providing virtualised shared infrastructures that are designed for non-disruptive operations throughout a system’s lifetime.

Customers choosing Fujitsu vShape also minimise system downtime thanks to NetApp clustered Data ONTAP. The self-healing system allows tasks such as storage maintenance, hardware lifecycle operations and software upgrades to be completed on a running system by freeing up one node for maintenance. As a result, customers save time and money by being able to consolidate and share the same infrastructure for workloads with varying requirements in terms of performance, capacity and security.

By adopting a completely virtualised IT infrastructure like Fujitsu vShape businesses are empowered to decide how they want to store information now and in the future – either holding data on-premise or via a cloud set-up. The latest enhancements to vShape also allow companies to decouple their IT from application lifecycles and switch to an ‘operating concept’ instead of a dedicated hardware stack. As a result, enterprises gain a flexible way to deal with inevitable data growth and data management challenges, and can avoid vendor lock-in.