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Unisys Announces New Solutions-Led Technology Strategy to Help Clients Gain Greater Business Value and Efficiency from IT


Hong Kong, April 1, 2008 – Unisys unveiled a major new technology strategy aimed at helping clients evolve their organisations into real-time enterprises, in which business requirements directly drive information technology (IT) use. This solutions-led strategy integrates services, software and hardware from Unisys and partners to meet clients’ specific requirements. It enables organisations to retain and extend their current IT investment as they transform the IT infrastructure to support continually emerging business demands.

 

As part of this strategy, Unisys today rolled out the first in a series of solutions to help clients dynamically shift IT resources as needed to meet the strategic needs of the business while reducing costs and energy use. The new solutions include Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite, a set of data centre solutions enabled by Unisys services and underpinned by new software.

 

Unisys also announced new blade and midrange servers to expand clients’ choice in systems to power a real-time infrastructure.

 

“Our clients are grappling daily with a host of challenges that impede their ability to compete in an increasingly dynamic marketplace: server sprawl, underutilisation of existing IT resources, escalating power consumption and space crunch in the data centre, to name a few,” said Rich Marcello, president, Unisys Systems and Technology. “With our combined services and engineering skills, Unisys is preeminently positioned to provide multi-vendor IT solutions that help clients turn those challenges into business opportunities. We can help clients use their existing IT assets more effectively and save money while evolving their IT infrastructure to better support their business in real time.”

 

The new technology strategy is also aimed at increasing Unisys business in the rapidly growing market for IT infrastructure solutions that enable companies to transform into real-time enterprises. Independent research firms view the market for real-time infrastructure – including virtualised hardware, software and related services – as a multi-billion-dollar segment poised for strong growth over the next few years. Unisys brings to this market decades of experience in mission-critical computing, combined with a nearly $5 billion services business and deep understanding of how to design and integrate multi-vendor systems and software in heterogeneous environments.

 

“Virtualisation in data centres, especially those deploying x86 servers, is accelerating in terms of customer adoption, but many customers now realise that they need to take steps to ensure high availability and advanced management for enterprise, mission-critical applications running in a virtualised IT infrastructure,” said Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC. “Unisys clearly understands that situation, and has crafted a strategy that addresses the full complexity of those IT challenges for today’s data centres. Integrating services expertise, systems and software engineering skill, and leveraging the work of expert partners, including software companies, Unisys is providing a portfolio of solutions to provision and manage a virtualised infrastructure in mission-critical computing environments for the enterprise.”

 

Unisys Appoints New Greater China Head of Systems & Technology Sales and Services


Unisys has appointed Jackson Liu to the role of sales manager, Greater China, Systems & Technology (S&T).

 

With years of experience in IT industry and solid knowledge in the field, Liu will lead his team to deliver the vision of a real-time infrastructure by addressing clients' challenges and opportunities in the most cost-effective, secure and robust way possible for them, help clients transform organizations into real-time enterprises under the heterogeneous environments of multi-vendor systems and software.

 

“Enterprises are inclined to build virtualization infrastructure platform now.   In doing so, all virtual and automated resources allocation needed to be managed more effectively. Advanced and dynamics solutions are needed to help integrate different IT systems.  The new Unisys solutions can use the Unisys 3D Blueprinting services methodology, which provides clients greater visibility into the relationships between the business and the technology that supports it. Clients gain greater business value and efficiency from IT.  The new technology-led solutions will help Unisys further expand its market share in the server technology market in Greater China”, said Liu.

 

New Management Suite Provides Missing Link Between Business and IT


The new Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite solutions address a key client requirement: automated management of IT infrastructure in a way that enhances real-time services to the business while reducing operating costs. Applying these solutions can reduce the servers required in the data centre by up to two- thirds and immediately lower power consumption and cooling requirements for data centre equipment. This creates significant space, energy and carbon footprint improvements.

 

Using leading-edge middleware from Unisys and its partners, along with Unisys services, the Infrastructure Management Suite solutions include:

  • Virtual Orchestration, which provides automated self-service provisioning and management of virtualised server environments;
  • Disaster Recovery Automation and Repurposing, which enables rapid repurposing of infrastructure resources within minutes to support disaster recovery requirements; 
  • Test & Development Infrastructure Automation, which facilitates the transition to different systems and eliminates the manual effort, potential for error, and time delay associated with provisioning servers;
  • Automation and Efficiency for Production Infrastructure, which enables a pool of server resources to deliver just-in-time changes to accommodate business demand; 
  • Servers as a Utility, a custom solution leveraging Unisys outsourcing services expertise, which enables flexible provisioning of servers to support business-critical applications; and
  • Data Centre Migration, another custom solution, which draws on Unisys best practices and services to help clients more efficiently create data centres or transition to new ones.

The innovative middleware underpinning the new Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite solutions is based on software from key partners as well as from Unisys. It allows clients to create a sense-and-respond infrastructure for automated, real-time infrastructure management. The key components available now are:

  • Unisys uAdapt™ software, which enables repurposing of server assets on demand in real time. It is based on software from Unisys partner Scalent Systems;
  • Unisys uOrchestrate™ software, based on software from Unisys partner Enigmatec Corporation, which automates key IT processes that run the business – for example, keeping service level agreements (SLAs) within policy; and 
  • Unisys uChargeback™ software, developed by Unisys, which oversees and measures resource usage, enabling costs to be charged back to the responsible business organisation.

In 2008, Unisys also plans to add software capabilities for service governance and provisioning to the suite to control the way IT resources support critical business applications and automate allocation of IT resources according to application needs, respectively.

 

“Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite solutions provide flexibility for a client to begin deployment at any point, whether through architecture services, business process or applications services, or at the infrastructure level.” Liu said.

 

New Servers Increase Client Options for Deploying Cost-Efficient Solutions


The new Unisys blade and mid-range servers announced today extend the Unisys server portfolio, expanding clients’ choice of high-performance platforms for solutions in real-time environments. The servers are designed specifically to reduce server sprawl, provide maximum efficiency in use of computing resources, and reduce power consumption and associated costs.

 

With flexible I/O configuration options and advanced local and remote management interfaces, the new ES5000 family of blade servers is ideal for real-time infrastructures. It enables computing resources to be added on demand, cutting down on idle resources in the data centre and delivering increased power and cost efficiency.

 

Underscoring its commitment to deliver the latest in virtualisation, Unisys has also enhanced its ES3000 family of mid-range servers with a new model and three upgrades. The new model, ES3215L, is a two-socket quad-core server using Intel Xeon processor technology. Unisys has also upgraded the existing ES3220, ES3220L and ES3420L servers to the latest quad-core Intel Xeon processors with Intel Virtualisation Technology, which optimises performance in a virtualised environment.

 

The ES5000 blade servers are scheduled for availability in March. The new ES3000 models are available immediately.

 

Unisys also plans to expand its ES7000 family of high-end enterprise servers with a quad-core eight-processor server in the second quarter of 2008. In the latter part of the year, Unisys plans to deliver its next generation of highly scalable ES7000 servers, the first development to leverage the Unisys/NEC strategic alliance for server design and manufacture.

 

For further information on Unisys real-time infrastructure solutions, click on the following link: http://www.unisys.com/tech/RTI.

 

Click here for the Traditional Chinese press release.

 

About Unisys


Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialise in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

 

Unisys is a registered trademark and uAdapt, uOrchestrate and uChargeback are trademarks of Unisys Corporation. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

 

Contact

 

Corinna Fung, Unisys, + 852 2879 3832
corinna.fung@hk.unisys.com