Fujitsu Releases ETERNUS TR800 Series of Storage Systems for Virtualization Environments
Reduces storage costs by up to 50%, facilitates support for large-scale virtual environments
Fujitsu Limited
Tokyo, January 15, 2015
Fujitsu today announced that it has commenced sales of three new models in its FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS TR series, which is designed for large-scale virtualization environments. The new models, which are ETERNUS TR820, ETERNUS TR850 and ETERNUS TR880, reduce the cost per unit of data stored by up to 50%(1).
The top-tier model ETERNUS TR880 is capable of connecting up to 3,500 virtual machines, roughly 1.8 times that of previous models(2), supporting even larger-scale virtual environments. In addition, to enhance security for large volumes of data, a new function to encrypt data on disks will be offered.The new series is available for order only in Japan starting today.
Background
In accordance with the increasing scale of systems that use server and desktop virtualization technology, and to address the need for greater storage performance and the challenges of increasingly complex configuration design and management, since August 2014 Fujitsu has offered the ETERNUS TR series of storage systems designed for virtualization environments.
Fujitsu will now offer three new models in the ETERNUS TR800 series, which, in addition to reducing the cost per unit of data stored by up to 50%, will support even larger systems.