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October 30, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Taking its 'Customer Challenge' programs to the next level, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (www.fujitsu-siemens.com) has announced its new, data center 'Efficiency Challenge,' inviting European companies to participate in a free 'Discovery Workshop' where Fujitsu Siemens will work with the company to reduce the time it takes managing their IT infrastructure by 20 percent.
According to Fujitsu Siemens' Thursday announcement, if it cannot identify company's greatest IT infrastructure pain points, reducing its IT management time by at least 20 percent, they will receive 10,000? worth of products or services. The Efficiency Challenge is a significant addition to Fujitsu Siemens Computers' programs because it is the first to incorporate services management to its generally infrastructure-based challenges.
"Over the past few years our portfolio has developed from a pure product offering to a unique combination that fully integrates products, solutions and services," said Richard Schlauri, Fujtisu Siemens Computers executive vice-president of infrastructure Services. "This has enabled us to reach a wider market and increased benefits for our customers - as reflected in our Efficiency Challenge. By incorporating services management to our analysis of customer data centers, we can extend the cost savings realised from our previous Dynamic Data Center Challenge to include time savings. And of course, time savings translate into significant cost savings."
Saving on human capital and energy costs has been a hot topic this month as IT management software provider CA (www.ca.com) launched its Data Center Automation Manager r11.2 at the beginning of October. The new version promises to increase data center responsiveness, performance and cost-effectiveness by providing intelligent, policy-driven provisioning and configuration management of physical and virtual resources. A week earlier, CA announced its partnership with power and cooling services provider APC by Schneider Electric (www.apc.com) to create a full set of solutions for assessing and fully optimizing data center energy consumption.
A leading European IT infrastructure provider, Fujitsu Siemens remains a leading player in the development of next-generation data center products, services and solutions. It has Pioneered environmentally conscious technology and processes, and is a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (www.climatesaverscomputing.org) and the Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org). In mid-October, Fujitsu Siemens partnered with ISIT and Visionaire to hold a one-day event in Dubai to showcase environmentally-friendly IT systems for the Middle East region.
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