The new world record is one of the first benchmarks to be achieved using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – available from August 30 th 2008 – with the PRIMERGY TX300 S4. Built from the ground up to deliver optimum efficiency, lab results validate the PRIMERGY TX300 S4’s performance when coupled with SQL Server 2008, as the industry-standard server goes straight into the top spot on the TPC’s TPC-E price/performance tables. Benchmark tests produced a result of 317.45 tpsE – the number of transactions per second the server can sustain over a period of time – and a price per tpsE of US $523.49. This price per tpsE is some 25 percent lower than the second-placed system, available since April 8 th, with a price per tpsE score of US $694.08, and 295.27 tpsE throughput.

“Our customers benefit directly from our investment in extensive testing in our benchmarking laboratories,” says Monique de Klerk, Portfolio Manager Dynamic Data Centre at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “Our focus on fine-tuning systems ensures that PRIMERGY servers deliver their best performance in the real world. The new TPC benchmark provides independent validation of our leadership in an area that is very important to datacentre managers and financial controllers alike: the industry’s best price-per-transaction figures.”

Tests were carried out in Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ benchmarking laboratories in Paderborn, Germany, under certified TPC conditions. The results were achieved with a server PRIMERGY TX300 S4 running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, with 64GB RAM, and some 188 SAS 3Gb/s 73GB hard drives.

Full details of the test results are available on the TPC web site: http://www.tpc.org/tpce/tpce_price_perf_results.asp

* The TPC test is based on portraying the activity of a brokerage firm, with workload centered on the activity of processing brokerage trades.

About Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT infrastructure manufacturer and at the same time market leader in Germany. With its strategic focus on innovative mobility and dynamic data centre products, services and solutions, the company offers a unique range of products – from notebooks and desktops up to IT infrastructure solutions and services. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is present in all key markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – its Infrastructure Services division is active in 170 countries. The company benefits from the global cooperation and innovation power of both its shareholders, Fujitsu Ltd. and Siemens AG. The focus is on the specific requirements of its customers, be they large, small or medium-sized companies or private consumers.  Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in using environmentally friendly technologies and processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a product. It is also a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, Green Grid organizations as well as the United Nations initiative "Global Compact".

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