By Nathan Dukes
Late last year Fujitsu unveiled a new world record result on the SAP Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) Standard Application Benchmark.
The standard Application Benchmark is widely used by enterprises to analyse their system’s performance in business warehousing (BW) environments.
Fujitsu says the result is a breakthrough for enterprises running large SAP solution-based data warehouses.
Fujitsu established a world record result on the SAP BI-D Standard Application Benchmark with a four-node Oracle Real Application Cluster in October last year.
On the four-node Fujitsu cluster, throughput was increased from the single-node score of 320,363 query navigation steps to 1,165,742 query navigation steps.
The result was achieved on Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S5 rack servers running Oracle Database with Oracle Database Real Application Clusters.
Fujitsu said the ‘cost-efficient environment provides excellent scalability and high availability for large-scale business warehousing deployments, at an affordable price’.
Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President, x86 Server Product Division at Fujitsu Technology Solutions said the products are outweighing larger, more expensive servers.
“The fact that we have beaten records previously established by systems based on big boxes really underlines how PRIMERGY x86 servers today are starting to match the high performance of enterprise servers, at a lower cost.”
“Achieving these benchmark results is a landmark that strengthens Fujitsu’s reputation as an infrastructure provider and provides another proof point of the many synergies from our long-standing strategic relationship with SAP.”
Fujitsu also introduced the PRIMERGY RX300 S5 database server as a migration path for enterprise data warehousing applications from end-of-life UNIX-based systems.
The SAP BI-D Standard Application Benchmark provides a real-world indication of enterprise database performance through measuring system performance in handling high-volume queries to a business warehouse system database.
The PRIMERGY RX300 S5 is available to Australian customers through Fujitsu Australia.
