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Fujitsu Launches 'Softek' Integrated Storage Management Software
Optimizes Efficiency of Multi-vendor Storage Management
Tokyo, July 29, 2002-Fujitsu Limited today launched its "Softek" line of integrated storage management software for multi-vendor storage environments. Softek represents a major enhancement of Fujitsu's storage management software line-up and is part of the company's push to strengthen its storage systems business.
Positioned as a strategic product to be marketed on a global basis, Fujitsu's Softek is based on the concept of "Simplifying Data Storage." It optimizes use of available storage resources in multi-vendor storage environments and helps to improve customers' ROI through integrated and automated management. Moreover, it reduces total cost of ownership, minimizes application downtime by improving storage availability, and protects business critical data from a disaster.
Leveraging special advantages that reflect the needs of advanced users in North America, Fujitsu will promote Softek as a stand-alone software product for multi-vendor storage hardware environments. In addition, Fujitsu will provide the Softek product lineup in combination with its ETERNUS storage systems as a comprehensive storage solution offering.
"Softek ensures a consistent, secure, yet simplified management approach to meet immediate as well as future storage needs," said Junji Maeyama, corporate senior vice president of Fujitsu Limited's Platforms Business Group. "We are determined to provide our customers with storage systems that share the same mission critical and lowest total cost of ownership values as our enterprise servers. With the skills and intellectual property we have put into Softek, we can do that."
The Softek Management Foundation integrates three principal storage management segments: Storage Resource Management, Storage Infrastructure and Storage Data Management. This realizes storage management automation, centralization and reporting across all storage management segments in a multi-vendor storage environment. Other key advantages include:
- By combining Storage Resource Management and Storage Infrastructure, Softek dramatically improves storage resource utilization.
- Softek allows storage administrators to easily manage configuration, performance and failures in large-scale, complex SAN environments. This helps prevent SAN performance bottleneck and problems, as well as realize quick troubleshooting and remediation.
- Softek's high-speed backup solution reduces downtime for data backup from several hours to a matter of seconds. This allows storage administrators to migrate data while applications are running. These advantages help minimize downtime for data protection or migration operations.
Softek Product Highlights
- Storage Resource Management
- Softek Storage Manager simplifies and automates storage management in a multi-vendor environment. It provides a unified view of all storage, both local and distributed. Storage use and growth can be asset managed and analyzed for cost minimization while problems caused by insufficient storage capacity are avoided. Equally important, policy-based automation provides hands-free operation for a range of routine tasks to maximize staff productivity.
Softek SANView is a proactive Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric manager that simplifies SAN troubleshooting. It monitors the health and performance of all SAN-connected devices, allows diagnosis and prevents outages. Its automatic discovery functions mean that problems are fixed in minutes instead of hours.
- Storage Infrastructure
- Softek Virtualization optimizes storage use by pooling storage resources and removing the need for direct connections between servers and storage. This also allows the addition and removal of storage capacity independent of the business process. Multi-vendor SAN devices can be used in the storage pool and the overall effect is one of capacity on demand.
- Softek TDMF (transparent data migration facility) Open Systems Edition simplifies data storage management with high-performance data migration and replication. Simple to implement and highly scalable, it provides cost-effective duplication of critical data using existing resources, procedures and staff skills. The addition of storage capacity and the migration of data to new locations are also improved with minimal business interruption and cross platform support.
- Storage Data Management
- Softek AdvancedCopy Manager works in cooperation with Fujitsu's ETERNUS GR storage systems to provide very high-speed backup/restore and replication. It can be used with ORACLE, SQL Server and Symfoware databases, and raises business process availability by performing all functions without stopping the database. Very high-speed and secure copying of data is also possible between remote or local systems using a SAN-WAN-SAN connection.
The Softek line of software products has been developed by a team of 400 engineers from Fujitsu Limited and its Sunnyvale, Calif.-based subsidiary, Fujitsu Software Technology Corporation, bringing together a wealth of experience and expertise in mission critical storage technologies, as well as an intimate understanding of the sophisticated storage requirements of North American customers. Some 150 CIOs, directors and storage administration professionals from major North American corporations provided input to Softek developers during the design and development stages. Fujitsu has also established multi-vendor storage labs in Japan and the United States, which are being utilized for interoperability verification.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, high-reliability/performance computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts make Fujitsu uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the broadband Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5 trillion yen (about US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/
Comments from Partners
I'm happy to announce Fujitsu Ltd. will introduce DataCore Corporation's product suite under the name "Softek Virtualization" as part of their "Softek" storage software lineup. Fujitsu recognizes one of the most important issues in storage management is how to increase total ROI. Fujitsu will utilize DataCore's "SANSymphony" storage virtualization technology and integrate it into their Softek storage management software suite. I am confident Fujitsu will carry through on their plan to create a truly data centralized storage management solution.
| Peter Thompson |
| Director |
| Asia Pacific |
| DataCore Software Corporation |
"Oracle Corporation Japan welcomes the Fujitsu Softek storage management product announcement. We offer software products including 'Oracle 9i'and services to all fields of industry and beyond to the new markets such as broadband, e-government, and life sciences amongst many others. Oracle9i together with today's new announcement of Softek and the OSCP(Oracle Storage Compatibility Program) certification of ETERNUS storage systems brings together Fujitsu's total storage solution, driving forward the introduction of mission critical open platforms."
| Kenji Yamamoto |
| Executive Vice President of Oracle Corporation Japan |
Microsoft welcomes the announcement of Softek storage management software. SQL Server one point backup solution by Softek is an achievement of activities for "Business-critical computing solutions High Reliable System", one of the focused area in the global alliance, Fujitsu Limited and Microsoft Corporation jointly announced on June 18, 2001.In collaboration between Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers and Fujitsu's total storage solution composed of Softek and ETERNUS products, Microsoft is continuously aiming to realise Windows-based large scale enterprise systems for mission critical application and Internet business.
| Waten Suzuki |
| Member of the board, Enterprise Business, Microsoft KK
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