Infrastructure Technology for Cloud Services

The application of a new information and communications technology (ICT) model called cloud computing is finally moving into a full-scale deployment phase in the corporate world as a new business infrastructure and in diverse fields such as primary industry, medical care, and nursing to improve productivity. To expand use of the "cloud," that is, to dispel worries about using cloud computing, Fujitsu came to reevaluate, redesign, and redevelop its cloud infrastructure technology from the architecture level to achieve a higher dimension in both convenience and reliability. These efforts led to the launching in October 2010 of a commercialized cloud service called "On-demand Virtual System Service" (now known as the "Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform `FGCP/S5 service in Japan and as the "Global Cloud Platform [GCP]" service globally). This "Made in Fujitsu" infrastructure technology is being expanded to data centers in six countries including Japan to promote the provision of cloud services on a global scale. This paper introduces Fujitsu's cloud infrastructure technology and the global expansion of Fujitsu cloud services.