Cloud Platform ServiceMesh Gives Customers Access to Fujitsu Global Cloud

A screenshot from a YouTube video shows the ServiceMesh Agility Platform control panel

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud platform provider ServiceMesh announced on Thursday that it now supports Fujitsu‘s Global Cloud Platform so customers can gain access to Fujitsu’s global cloud computing footprint.

This announcement comes two months after ServiceMesh completed a $15 million funding round led by Ignition Partners. ServiceMesh said it would use the capital from this funding to accelerate its global market penetration and foster partnerships, both of which this agreement with Fujitsu will likely accomplish.

ServiceMesh says this capability allows customers to use Fujitsu’s global cloud as part of their hybrid cloud strategies to reduce the cost and time-to-market for delivery of enterprise IT services. ServiceMesh customers with additional cloud deployment options to optimize its global workload placement.

Using a single management interface, ServiceMesh customers use its Agility Platform to provide cloud governance, policy management, security and workflow automation in hybrid envionrments in multiple internal and external clouds. With access to Fujitsu’s cloud resources, ServiceMesh customers can be assured that appropriate policy controls will be enforced across cloud workloads regardless of the target deployment.

“The Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform provides fully configurable, on-demand IT infrastructure delivered via our global network of data centers — in Japan, Australia, the USA, Germany, the UK and Singapore — to provide cost-effective yet reliable and secure access to Infrastructure-as-a-Service,” Cameron McNaught, senior vice president cloud, Fujitsu Global Business Group said in a statement. “We are delighted at the ServiceMesh announcement, which gives enterprise customers an easy way to build and deploy applications across our global network of cloud platforms, enabling them to meet local data residency and compliance requirements.”

Users of the ServiceMesh Agility Platform can provision and manage standardized and fully governed IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings to lower operating costs. Companies can govern and manage the lifecycle and delivery of these services across hybrid cloud architectures.

“Enterprise customers need the flexibility to access high-performance and cost effective cloud-based IT resources around the world,” Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy at ServiceMesh said in a statement. “Fujitsu’s Global Cloud provides an impressive footprint of global IT resources, while ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform delivers the unified governance, lifecycle management, and automation required by enterprises to effectively manage their hybrid cloud environments. The combination of ServiceMesh and Fujitsu represents a potent new weapon in the enterprise IT arsenal.”

Fujitsu launched its global cloud platform in Japan in October 2010 under the name “On-Demand Virtual System Service.” In June 2011, Fujitsu extended its offering worldwide via data centers in Japan, Australia, Singapore, the US, UK, and Germany.

Earlier this week, Fujitsu issued a press release about its PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud eXtension server rack that said capacity tests carried out by Open-Xchange demonstrated its use for web hosts and telcos.

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