Dubai UAE, May 30, 2006. Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, today announced that the PRIMERGY BX630 running on AMD Opteron dual socket processors with 2.6 GHz produced a new Microsoft Exchange MAPI Messaging Benchmark (MMB3) world record using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved world-class Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 scalability results of 12,008 MMB3-users and surpassed the latest results achieved by Hewlett-Packard on a four-socket system.

The MAPI Messaging Benchmark 3 (MMB3) is the benchmarking standard for measuring the performance and scalability of computers running Exchange Server 2003. Its benchmarking workload and methodology serves as the standard for Exchange Server 2003 MAPI server comparison. The MMB3 workload is characteristic of a medium corporate mail environment.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved the world record using a PRIMERGY BX630 server blade equipped with:

  • Two AMD Opteron 885 Dual-Core 2.6GHz 1MB L2 processors

  • Two 250 GB disks for operating systems and system log files

  • 570 36 GB disks for Exchange database and log files

The PRIMERGY BX630 achieved the following:

  • Average CPU utilization rate of 87.1% during the 12,008 MMB3 test

  • Response-time score of 245 milliseconds

The PRIMERGY BX630 is part of the PRIMERGY Blade Ecosystem BX600 which is designed for a broad range of application areas, from web server or terminal server farms with lower performance demands all the way to high performance database or application server configurations.

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About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Dynamic Data Center products, services and solutions. With a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users. The company is a member of the United Nations Global Compact initiative. For more information on Fujitsu Siemens Computers, please visit: www.fujitsu-siemens.com.

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Press Release 2006