New Middleware as a Driver of Innovation

Looking to the future, all manner of things will come to be connected to the Internet, resulting in the exchange of massive amounts of information. In that world, innovative approaches to converting constant streams of information into real value will play a major role in growing a company's business and promoting social development. Believing that the three management resources of people, information, and infrastructure are the key elements driving innovation, Fujitsu has announced a Mobile Initiative, Big Data Initiative, Cloud Initiative, and Security Initiative as a system for providing information and communications technology (ICT) products that integrate and use those elements. In this system, middleware the foundation of solutions and systems will be given the role of coordinating and integrating a wide variety of services, networks, and mobile devices and of achieving safe and easy-to-manage operations. It will also have the role of supporting innovation in the field for corporate business. Fujitsu is leveraging the know-how it has accumulated in implementing systems both inside and outside the company to promote the further evolution of middleware. This paper describes Fujitsu middleware that supports these four initiatives.