Fujitsu Asia to implement blade servers for National Grid
ConvergenceAsia staff
17/06/2008

Regional IT and communications solutions provider Fujitsu Asia will implement a blade server-based infrastructure for the National Grid initiative, as part of the winning consortium announced.

The winning consortium, picked by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), will offer software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications using the underlying infrastructure by Fujitsu Asia, the group’s designated hardware vendor and systems integrator.

Examples of such services include:
- operating systems
- Microsoft Office programmes
- remote access
- application development
- email
- platform virtualisation
- video streaming
- Web-based server management, website creation and billing tools

Fujitsu will engineer the blade-based infrastructure, using servers based on the Primergy range, for the National Grid to exhibit the reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) characteristics previously specified by IDA. Primergy blade servers will be implemented during the first year of the 3-year project and additional servers will be added during the second and third year.

The blade-based design will also reduce total cost of ownership by lowering energy consumption, minimising heat dissipation and optimising physical footprint. Additionally, Fujitsu Asia will implement a storage area network (SAN) for the National Grid.

The blade servers and SAN will be integrated with services and software components by fellow consortium members including:

- NewMedia Express, a Web hosting and managed services provider
- 1-Net Singapore, a telco-class Internet Data Centre and infocommunications technology solutions provider
- Microsoft Singapore, a leading software vendor
- Advanced ERP, an enterprise applications developer

The consortium’s services for the National Grid initiative will be located at the 1-Net Singapore data centre in Technopark@Chai Chee, and is scheduled for rollout by September 2008. The consortium will incorporate 200 processors, five terabytes of storage capacity and other features which may be scaled up as demand grows. 

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