A year after globally launching the FUJITSU Cloud Initiative, Fujitsu is strengthening its commitment to unlocking the business-innovation, cost-efficiency and agility benefits of cloud for its customers around the world. In doing so, Fujitsu is well on its way to building one of the broadest portfolios of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Cloud Integration Services.

Cameron McNaught. Executive Vice President, Solutions, Global Delivery, Fujitsu (photo), said : “Fujitsu has a vision of a Human Centric Intelligent Society, one where social and business innovation is driven by the intelligent use of information and communication technologies. We see cloud as the natural platform for delivering these new types of applications, which is reflected in both the increase we are seeing in cloud adoption and how it is becoming a standard part of IT service delivery models for many CIOs today. We also recognize that no single cloud service provider can meet all customer needs, so we are continuing to invest in our cloud integration services.”

Invest and grow-up

Having commited to a two-year investment of approx. 2 billion US$ in business innovation, social innovation and strengthening global delivery capabilities, Fujitsu has been busy bringing to market new offerings, deepening its deployments, and growing its customer base.

– Fujitsu plans to invest 200 billion yen (approx. 2 billion US$) during FY2014-16 to achieve its growth strategy – in business innovation, social innovation and strengthening global delivery capabilities –also in order to achieve Cloud sales of 350 billion yen (approx. 3.5 billion US$)
– The company highlights achievements since the launch of the FUJITSU Cloud Initiative

Solid, robust, innovative

Fujitsu supports its customers wherever they are on their cloud journey, with a strategic focus on broadening its cloud protfiolio, making it easy to adopt cloud alongside traditional, non-cloud systems and manage these consistently in a hybrid IT environment. The company has continued to build on a solid foundation of delivering robust and innovative ICT solutions and services: This has now harmonized as Fujitsu continues to invest in its cloud portfolio to provide on a global basis offerings that have been developed and successfully deployed in different regions around the world.

• FUJITSU Cloud IaaS Trusted Public S5 : Customers frequently need a Disaster Recovery system for key applications, often within the same country to address issues of data residency. These new data centers will deliver trusted public cloud to meet such requirements.
• FUJITSU Cloud IaaS Private Hosted : For 2014, Fujitsu has new IaaS Private Hosted deployments planned for two new locations in the USA (on the East and West Coast), plus additional deployments in six locations across Europe and Asia, as well as expansion in three existing geographies.
• FUJITSU Cloud PaaS RunMyProcess : Based on a cloud platform that removes the technology barriers to digital transformation, Fujitsu is enabling its customers to rapidly create new connected systems that unlock the disruptive benefits of process digitization across on-premise, cloud and mobile environments.
• FUJITSU Cloud IT Management as a Service: Globally available, delivering the world’s only unified approach to IT Management as a Service – in partnership with CA Technologies.
• FUJITSU Cloud Backup as a Service : Globally available delivering cloud-based backup services for cloud and non-cloud systems – in partnership EVault.
• Private Cloud Infrastructure : The choice of solutions announced in November 2013 will be broadened during 2014 with further major announcements for solutions using Fujitsu, OpenStack and VMware software technology.
• FUJITSU’s Cloud Managed Hosting : Enable customers to maximize their investment in Fujitsu Cloud IaaS or Private Cloud Infrastructures, without needing to manage the infrastructure and associated resources themselves, such as operating system, database, and security. This service will become available in more countries during 2014. Where currently available, the increase in uptake has been very strong.
• The FUJITSU Cloud Integration Platform was pre-announced in November 2013 as Fujitsu’s approach to helping customers to manage a hybrid IT environment of cloud alongside non-cloud systems. The FUJITSU Cloud Integration Platform will allow clients to adopt cloud services that their business needs, whether from Fujitsu or third parties, and then aggregate, integrate and manage these alongside existing cloud and on-premise systems, in a consistent manner.