New Unisys Business Continuance Solutions and Server Platform Provide Singular Foundation for Real-Time Recovery Anywhere, Any TimeSuperior capabilities of SafeGuard Family for disaster recovery and business continuance plus enhanced performance and economy of ES7000 servers yield peak support for real-time businessBLUE BELL, Pa., May 9, 2006 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced a combination of solutions that dramatically advance clients’ business continuance and real-time computing capabilities. The SafeGuard Family of solutions for business continuance helps clients protect critical business information with failover capability anywhere in the world within 30 minutes, regardless of storage subsystems. The new ES7000/one enterprise server, representing an industry first in its unique CPU architecture, provides enhanced capacity on demand that optimizes the economics of business continuance and IT management.
These new products advance the Unisys strategy of providing clients a singular solution to build a flexible real-time infrastructure that directly and dynamically enables strategic business processes and helps them realize key benefits of secure business operations – breakthroughs in customer satisfaction and more efficient IT management, with higher availability and lower costs of ownership.
“Business and IT executives tell us that customer satisfaction is a key driver in their increasing implementation of real time infrastructure,” said Mark Feverston, vice president, Enterprise Solutions Business, Unisys. “Exceptional business continuance and disaster recovery are essential to uninterrupted delivery of IT services enabling that critical requirement. ‘Uninterrupted’ means both serving customers transparently today and integrating new technology with legacy systems seamlessly tomorrow. Unisys new SafeGuard Family and ES7000/one deliver that real-time availability while allowing clients to avoid the ‘rip-and-replace’ approach to IT evolution espoused by many IT vendors.”
SafeGuard Family a “First” in Business Continuance
ES7000/one: a “First” for Intel-based Servers Drives Performance, Simplifies Management
The ES7000/one is the first server on the market to enable users to configure a single platform for both Intel Xeon MP and Itanium 2 processors. Unisys clients can scale back on training, maintenance and management requirements, reducing their cost of ownership.
“When evaluating our options we chose the ES7000/one because it was flexible and provided a path for continued growth of technology rather than buying equipment that would be obsolete in a matter of months,” said David Reneer, director, Technical Operations, DeniServ, which provides information and claims processing solutions for Delta Dental.
The ES7000/one has achieved the highest performance of any Intel-based 16-processor server on the TPC-C benchmark, delivering performance more than 50 percent greater and cost per tpmC nearly 48 percent lower than those attained by the comparable IBM system.¹
Making Business Continuance More Affordable: Enhanced ES7000 Real-Time Capacity
“With the SafeGuard Family and ES7000/one, Unisys continues to deliver innovative solutions for exceptional business continuance that incorporate the best mix of Microsoft and open source technologies to offer our customers the greatest flexibility for real-time infrastructure available today,” said Feverston.
Unisys Solutions: Visibility for Business Advantage
1Note to Editors: ES7000/one performance was 749,839 tpmC, running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on 16 Intel Dual-Core Xeon MP processors. That performance is more than 50 percent greater than that reported by the IBM eServer xSeries 460 16-processor server on November 22, 2005. In the same benchmark the ES7000/one achieved the lowest cost per transaction of all 16-processor servers at $3.33 per tpmC, nearly 48 percent lower than IBM’s eServer xSeries 460 16-processor server. 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 specialize 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.
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