AUTOMOTIVE

"Fujitsu's FlexFrame offers virtualization and automation technology that enables us to adapt far more quickly and cost-effectively to dynamic infrastructure requirements," said Ann Vezina, Group President of ACS Commercial Solutions. "And with built-in scalability and high availability, FlexFrame allows us to deliver the highest quality SAP experience to our customers while responding faster than ever to their changing needs." ACS provides application management services from multiple data centers in the United States and Europe. ACS delivers reliable, high-performance support for 65 SAP customers with users in 80 countries. Fujitsu's FlexFrame, developed in close cooperation with SAP, offers end-to-end virtualization and automation of IT infrastructure. This technology creates a simpler, modular approach to servers and storage that offers on-demand provisioning and other autonomic features to significantly reduce total cost of ownership. According to a study by BearingPoint, FlexFrame slashes infrastructure costs while enabling customers to change their business processes in SAP environments more quickly and affordably. "FlexFrame, a key element of Fujitsu's TRIOLE strategy for optimizing IT, allows SAP hosting partners, such as ACS, to cut IT costs while boosting the scalability and adaptability of the SAP business processes they offer customers," said Richard McCormack, Senior Vice President Product & Solutions Marketing at Fujitsu Computer Systems. "With FlexFrame, ACS has gained a competitive advantage through simpler management, lower maintenance overhead, and greater versatility and speed in responding to customers' changing needs." FlexFrame uses a grid computing solution to optimize IT infrastructures. The first certified deployment of an adaptive computing infrastructure solution for SAP NetWeaver, it virtualizes and separates SAP applications from infrastructure resources, including computing power, the network, storage, and control and system management. These resources are allocated on demand by using innovative automated mechanisms. FlexFrame delivers a radically simplified and more efficient SAP infrastructure that future-proofs SAP environments against both technology change and long-term costs.