Designed to provide new levels of high availability at lowered price points, and without the need for replicating systems with unproductive "hot-spare" servers in standby, the new edition of x10sure reportedly allows the consolidation of physical and virtual server environments into dynamic infrastructures, also delivering much-needed peace-of-mind through providing essential system failover protection.

Fujitsu's x10sure is designed to provide high availability to small and medium-sized businesses that cannot afford clustered hot-spare servers on standby.

Already recognized for its ability to standardize and streamline IT operations and automatically ensure business continuity, version 3 of x10sure introduces hypervisor-level support for virtual machines and adds even higher levels of system protection against unplanned downtime. Entry-level pricing has been lowered, and the solution runs on updated hardware components.

Protecting multiple virtual machines on a single physical host was a key factor influencing the design of the third-generation x10sure system-- and the solution integrates and complements market leading server virtualization technologies including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. The new system can automatically recover from physical server layer failures and restart all impacted virtual machines on a newly-introduced spare with minimal service interruption, providing enhanced protection against unplanned downtime and data loss through server, fabric and storage failure.

Fujitsu has also worked hard to boost system resilience, introducing two key new features that deliver enhanced uptime and protection for mission-critical services. The first is the introduction of 1:1 failover configurations in addition to N:1 levels of protection where several servers in an x10sure configuration are protected by a single spare. The enhancements widen the appeal of x10sure to a broader section of the small and medium-sized business market, offering a failover solution in line with budgets.