Fujitsu and Microsoft accelerate delivery of mission-critical workloads on Microsoft Azure

Fujitsu and Microsoft's strengthened partnership enables large-scale delivery of mission-critical workloads, with cloud-based models in vertical industries.

Fujitsu y Microsoft are accelerating Microsoft Azure cloud delivery for organizations, with a new global association of systems integrators. This allows companies to easily take the next step in their digital transformation: changing the mission critical workloads in hybrid IT states, to a comprehensive cloud-based delivery model, increasing innovation, improving flexibility and ensuring superior financial performance.

According to leading research firm Gartner, the global public cloud services market is expected to show continued strong growth in 2019, having expanded by an expected 21% in 2018, reaching a total of $175.8 billion.

This underlines that most organizations have already taken the first step towards cloud based delivery and are now grappling with the challenges of managing expanding hybrid IT estates, while aiming to realize the cost and agility advantages of cloud-based systems.

The new agreement between Fujitsu and Microsoft enables customers to establish solid foundations for their core systems, leveraging Fujitsu's deep experience in integrating and managing complex hybrid IT estates, combined with access to the market-leading public cloud platform, Microsoft's Azure. This enables organizations to take advantage of the attractive economics and increased agility that a cloud-based model offers for core workloads.

This partnership accelerates the delivery of a robust and consistent cloud infrastructure and paves the way for next-generation cloud-native applications, based on Azure's market-leading capabilities such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Internet of Things. Fujitsu's industry experience and systems integration skills give customers the choice and ability to migrate existing core workloads to the cloud with confidence and also ensure next-generation mission-critical applications are built cloud-native.

By establishing Azure-based cloud platforms for mission-critical workloads, organizations can better compete against new disruptive competitors in the market. Cloud-native applications are more agile and accelerate digital innovation for core business areas, including the modern workplace, business applications, infrastructure, analytics and artificial intelligence.

Primeflex

Fujitsu Primeflex for Microsoft Azure Stack has also been announced, offering a powerful solution for businesses that want to make the most of the public cloud, but need to keep some mission-critical IT under their own roof, due to data sovereignty, compliance or connectivity requirements. The new integrated system unlocks the agility, cost control, and accelerated innovation of cloud computing, even when select workloads remain on-premises. Providing one-stop services and features supported by Azure, both in the cloud and on-premises, enables the creation of advanced hybrid solutions that balance on-premises and cloud in perfect harmony.