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Fujitsu is rolling its multi-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud out over North America and, as a come-on, offering the enterprise a three-month free beta trial from May 31 till August 31, when the widgetry goes into general release.
It calls the thing its Global Cloud Platform, a dead giveaway that it’s shooting for the multinationals, particularly the Japanese multinationals, expecting them to appreciate being able to standardize worldwide yet keep the data in-country.
The Global Cloud Platform is already up and running in Japan, Australia, Singapore and the UK.
Fujitsu is also particularly looking forward to pitching accounts on its cloud strategy consulting and transition services. It’s got hybrid clouds in the back of its mind.
Fujitsu figures companies might use the free trial for application testing and development as well as high-performance processing for workloads such as data analytics. The trial offers five VMs and 1TB of storage.
The company points to IDC’s prediction that 80% of new enterprise applications will be developed for the cloud this year and that close to 20% of spending on enterprise apps will be via the cloud model by 2014.
The Global Cloud Platform supports open source Xen virtualization and Microsoft, Linux and CentOS applications. It’s supposed to have multi- tier security and Fujitsu claims its browser-based interface makes building, provisioning and managing secure environments easy even for relatively complex three-tier workloads.
It describes provisioning as “highly flexible” and is guaranteeing that the availability of the compute, storage and network capacity will be at least 99.95%. It said to figure on 3x data replication.
The widgetry’s built on published APIs and includes 24/7 global support.
The US service will be out of what Fujitsu says is a green data center in Silicon Valley that it projects could save companies as much as 40% on their information and communications technology (ICT) costs while reducing their carbon footprint.
It’s promising to be competitively priced when it goes gold.
Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto told Reuters back at Christmas that the company would invest $1.2 billion in cloud computing in its 2010 fiscal year, which ended in March, and more than that this year.
Fujitsu has the turnkey Microsoft Azure platform appliance and services that go around it for sale in Japan and Europe.
See http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/cloud-beta-trial. Unlike Amazon, registrants can expect a background and credit check.
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