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FUJITSU GOES AFTER CLOUD COMPUTING MARKET WITH $1.1Bn
Fujitsu, the Tokyo-based global tech giant, is stepping up its cloud-computing investment.
According to news reports, the company’s president, Masami Yamamoto, said during a press conference in July that Fujitsu will spend 100bn yen (about US$1.1bn) on capital investment and research and development related to its cloud-computing business in fiscal 2010.
The figure represents 25% of the total capital expenditure Fujitsu has planned for the year.
Neusoft Corp, the largest Chinese provider of IT solutions to the healthcare sector, said in July that it would build a new data center in China. The company is collaborating with the China Health Promotion Foundation and China Health Management Association on the project, according to a report by the Chinese financial news service Capital Vue. The report quoted Neusoft president Liu Jiren, who said the company did not intend to operate any hospitals or other healthcare institutions in the future.
Data center service provider Telehouse America has expanded its presence in China by opening a new data center in Shanghai. The company launched its 39th data center worldwide by partnering with a Chinese company called Shanghai Data Solution. A partnership with a native company is reportedly the only way for a foreign data center provider to operate in mainland China. The facility, located in Pudong, is the second Telehouse-branded facility
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“This is because the center of profit growth in the mid and long term lies in cloud computing,” Yamamoto said.
The investment includes training or hiring about 5,000 cloud computing experts and creating a new data center in southern China, which will serve customers in the country.
Fujitsu expects to launch the new facility by March 2012. The company has set ambitious sales targets for its cloud computing business: at 1.3 trillion yen (about US$14.6bn) in 2015.
in mainland China.
Australian data and transaction service provider Connxion Ventures, and Chinese data center services provider Global Data Solutions, announced a joint- venture in China. The organisation, called GDS-CXN Data Services, will offer a combination of GDS infrastructure and Connxion data and transaction services, according to reports. Connxion CEO Bill Brooks told CFO World that he considered the $2.5m investment from his company a “high-risk and high-return opportunity”.
NTT Europe, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, announced in July that its Global Virtualization Services offerings were now available in Singapore. The services are supported by NTT’s new Singapore data center. The services consist of outsourced virtualized environments operated by NTT. NTT launched GVS for European customers in February, offering it in UK, US and Hong Kong data centers. The new location provides the advantage
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Masami Yamamoto, President of Fujitsu
of a single point of contact for Singapore-based customers.
The Australian Department of Defense chose data center provider Global Switch to participate in its A$417m data center consolidation project, according to local news reports. The department closed a 10-year lease on the provider’s data center in Sydney. Defense officials said the department’s primary data center in Canberra had reached its power and cooling capacity and was no longer appropriate to serve the agency. The plan is to move to the new site by March 2012.
The Department of Treasury and Finance (DoTF) of Western Australia has started an initiative worth A$52m to create a single panel of data center providers to whom the DoTF and the Department of Health will turn for their data center outsourcing needs, according to reports. The initiative is part of the state’s overall data center consolidation project, and is in it’s first two-year stage after which it could expand
up to four years.
Retail colocation service provider Equinix announced a plan to build a third data center outside Sydney. The company plans to invest A$65m in the facility’s first phase, expected to bring online enough data center floor for 1,000 cabinets some time in the second quarter of 2011.
The provider forecasts that the SY3 facility will have capacity for more than 3,000 cabinets.
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