Australia has become the first region outside Japan to roll out Fujitsu’s standardised Cloud offering.

The premium Cloud service is based in Tier III data centres located in every major geographic region including Australia, Singapore, USA, UK and Germany. 

The service is to provide single point of contact for the management of all infrastructure through its self-service Cloud services portal, that allows customers to adjust services, and change capacity and usage in real time.

Its ‘IaaS,’ infrastructure components can be dragged and dropped into immediate action, and 4-6 week network connections happen in seconds. 

The service is a “fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications” and can change to suit business needs, they said at yesterday’s launch at the Gold Coast. 

“The offering is also differentiated by providing the highest levels of availability, depending on customer requirements, and its highly sophisticated self-service portal.”

This project is the result of 14 months of development by Fujitsu.

 “We are shaping the future with our customers…delivering to local enterprises fully featured, high efficiency
services, from a global network, to facilitate their expansion into the
international marketplace,” said Cameron McNaught, Group Director – Solutions and Cloud Services.

“Fujitsu’s genuine Cloud offering has become a real alternative to traditional IT consumption models. Twelve months ago Cloud was niche.

We’re seeing customers moving key, mainstream business applications to the Cloud,” McNaught said.

Fujitsu ANZ’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) already has customers like IT company CA Technologies, as well high profile Toyota Australia and Frucor.

The expansion of these Cloud Services will see a range of offerings rolled out this year such as a SaaS suite including messaging, CRM and unified technologies later in 2011, says Fujitsu.