(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT services provider Fujitsu (http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com) announced on Tuesday it will be offering end-to-end enterprise cloud services designed for enterprises and ISVs in North America.
Launching sometime in Q1 2010, the enterprise cloud services will let companies move existing multi-platform and multi-vendor mission-critical systems to enterprise clouds.
Fujitsu has previously introduced enterprise cloud services in Japan and EMEA. The company says this announcement in North America is “another step in a global rollout.”
To prepare for the launch, Fujitsu has upgraded its environmentally-friendly data center at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters to the Tier III level.
The data center will more than double its available raised floor space, reduce carbon emissions by 21 percent, increase available power and cooling capabilities that will significantly expand the data center’s effective capacity by over 800 percent, and include Tier III-level enhancements to both electrical and mechanical redundancy.
The facility will also incorporate green technology including a hydrogen fuel-cell generator supplying power to the cooling systems and the use of bio-fuels in the expanded generator farm.
The data center will now be able to support the cloud application interface specification, which it recently submitted to the Open Cloud Standards Incubator of the Distributed Management Task Force to promote interoperability of cloud computing environments.
So far, email management software CoolRock Software and ecommerce solution Intershop Communications are just a couple of customers that have already said they intend to use the Fujitsu cloud computing solution.
The cloud services are designed for enterprises in manufacturing, finance, healthcare, retail and other compute- and data-intensive industries.
Fujitsu is offering a complete range of cloud solutions, including system construction, operations, maintenance services and full-featured vertical applications.
To comply with vertical industry standards and regulations, retail transactional applications will be hosted in a PCI-compliant data center and health care applications will be hosted in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
“Offering Fujitsu cloud services in North America is another important step in our global rollout of end-to-end cloud computing,” says Jack Noble, executive vice president of IT services at Fujitsu America. “The new Fujitsu cloud services will provide our global partners and clients with the opportunity to control costs, massively scale their infrastructures and applications on a pay-as-you-go basis, and confidently support a whole new generation of computing solutions on a future-proofed infrastructure.”
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