IT outsourcing firm Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it has launched a hybrid cloud service based on Microsoft Windows Azure, extending both its own cloud portfolio and its relationship with Microsoft.
The company’s cloud services go beyond infrastructure to include a pretty extensive collection of high-end enterprise consulting and educational services around cloud computing.
Fujitsu’s global alliance with Microsoft is an extensive partnership. In addition Fujitsu to being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partnership, the companies collaborate on technology and product development, according to the Fujitsu website.
Fujitsu’s announcement says hybrid cloud solutions offer customers flexibility when designing their cloud strategy, enabling them to place workloads and data in the environments most appropriate for them, including public and private cloud environments, or combinations of the two.
More information on the Azure-based hybrid cloud solution is offered in a PDF fact sheet, downloadable from the Fujitsu site.
The company says using hybrid cloud systems can enable a customer to reduce the costs of its cloud services by 30 percent or more.
Fujitsu’s hybrid cloud services link Azure-based cloud components with Windows Server based systems running either in the customer’s environment or in Fujitsu’s cloud platform. The modularity and portability of components enables sensitive applications (including enterprise and government applications) to run in Azure using data generated in a variety of locations, and stored wherever the customer prefers, simplifying the task of meeting certain conditions of regulatory compliance.
According to Microsoft, the new offering from Fujitsu is a good illustration of how a Microsoft service provider partner might incorporate components from a variety of technologies to present a flexible hybrid cloud – a model Microsoft is promoting to partners.
“These new cloud options from Fujitsu demonstrate the potential for offering public cloud services with value-added service techniques to deliver sophisticated cloud solutions that meet customers’ specific needs,” says Windows Azure general manager Doug Hauger. “The hybrid cloud model from Fujitsu, which uses the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, shows how our work together will address key customer needs such as integration with on-premise systems or specific security requirements.”
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