Fujitsu
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese multinational
information technology
equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo
, Japan
. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider (after IBM
and Hewlett-Packard
) measured by revenues.
Fujitsu's central focus is on providing IT-driven business solutions, but the company and its subsidiaries also offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of personal computing
, telecommunication
s and advanced microelectronics
. It has approximately 172,000 employees worldwide supporting customers in over 70 countries,
, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company
and German conglomerate Siemens
founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu
, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.
In 1954, Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 the transistorized FACOM 222. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū .
In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale
as a Fujitsu soccer club. Kawasaki Frontale has now been a J. League
football club since 1999.
In 1971, Fujitsu signed an OEM agreement with the Canadian company, Consolidated Computers Ltd (later Consolidated Computer Inc.) to distribute CCL's world leading data entry product, Key-Edit. Fujitsu joined both ICL who earlier began marketing Key-Edit in the British Commonwealth of countries as well as in both western and eastern Europe; and CCL's direct marketing staff in Canada, USA, London (UK) and Frankfurt. Mers Kutt, inventor of Key-Edit and founder of CCL, was the common thread that led to Fujitsu’s later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl
.
In 1990, Fujitsu acquired 80% of the UK-based computer company International Computers Limited (ICL) for $1.29 billion (ICL was renamed Fujitsu Services in 2002). In July 1991, ICL (Fujitsu) acquired more than half of the Russian company KME-CS (Kazan Manufacturing Enterprise of Computer Systems, Kazan
, Tatarstan
, Russia
). The agreement was signed between Peter Bonfield (President of ICL) and Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Tatarstan Republic).
In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color plasma display
. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.
In 1993, Fujitsu entered into a joint manufacturing venture with AMD to merge flash memory
operations. The jointly-produced flash memory product was named Spansion
. As part of the merger deal, AMD contributed its flash memory group, Fab 25 in Texas, its R&D facilities and assembly plants in Thailand, Malaysia and China; Fujitsu provided its Flash memory business division and the Malaysian Fujitsu Microelectronics final assembly and test operations.
From February 1989 until mid-1997, Fujitsu built the FM Towns
PC variant. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a gaming console compatible with the FM Towns games.
Amdahl
became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu in 1997 and with it the DMR consulting group, based in Canada.
In 1998, Fujitsu was headquartered in Nakahara-ku
, Kawasaki
, Kanagawa Prefecture
and maintained an office in Chiyoda
, Tokyo
.
In June 1999 Fujitsu's historical connection with Siemens was revived, when the two companies agreed to merge their European computer operations into a new 50:50 joint venture called Fujitsu Siemens Computers
, which became the world's fifth-largest computer manufacturing company. On April 1, 2009, Fujitsu acuired Siemens' stake in Fujitsu Siemens Computers
for approximately EUR450m. Fujitsu Siemens Computers became Fujitsu Technology Solutions
from this date.
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On March 2, 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products of America lost a class action lawsuit over hard disk drives with defective chips and firmware. Fujitsu also signed a partner agreement with AlmanteQ Co, a distributor of Fujitsu products in Libya.
In October 2004, Fujitsu's Australian subsidiary bought the Australian arm of Atos Origin, a systems implementation company specializing in SAP
.
On April 1, 2006, Fujitsu Software Corporation merged with Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.
In October 2007, Fujitsu launched its new $10 million facility in Noida, India.
In October 2007, Fujitsu's Australia and New Zealand subsidiary bought Infinity Solutions Ltd, a New Zealand IT hardware, services and consultancy company.
In January 2009, Fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its HDD business to Toshiba
. Transfer of the business was completed on October 1. 2009.
In March 2009, Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu") announced that it has decided to convert FDK Corporation (Securities Code: 6955, "FDK"), currently an equity-method affiliate of Fujitsu, to a consolidated subsidiary from May 1, 2009 (tentative schedule) by subscribing to a private placement to increase FDK's capital. More details are available through FDK
division, has 1,300 employees and a capital of 5 Billion Yen. It is run by Tatsuo Tomita.
– holds global responsibility for research, development and distribution of all x86 servers produced by Fujitsu. The company’s Dynamic Infrastructures
strategy, was also born here. The term Dynamic Infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of IT products, solutions, and services – from PCs and notebooks, to data center solutions, and Infrastructure as a Service and Managed Infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands of today’s economy
, implementation and management services.
Fujitsu Consulting was founded in 1973 in Montreal
, Canada
, under its original name "DMR" (an acronym of the three founder's names: Pierre Ducros, Serge Meilleur and Alain Roy During the next decade, the company established a presence throughout Quebec
and Canada
, before extending its reach to international markets. For nearly thirty years, DMR Consulting grew to become an international consulting firm, changing its name to Fujitsu Consulting in 2002 after being acquired by Fujitsu Ltd.
solutions. A similar venture is sponsored by Fujitsu in India, called General Airconditioners
.
, telecommunication
s and advanced microelectronics
solutions that go beyond the off-the shelf products.
Product lines include:
PRIMERGY
, Fujitsu's server family including Tower Servers, Rack Servers, and Blade Servers.
In May 2011, Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone space again, Microsoft announcing plans that Fujitsu would release Windows Phone 7
devices.
ETERNUS, Fujitsu’s storage hardware and software infrastructure as part of the company’s Dynamic Infrastructures Portfolio.
The word aeternus means "eternal" in Latin. Fujitsu adopted this name for the global storage brand to match the company’s concepts; of protecting customer assets forever and ensuring continuous business operation.
The ETERNUS product lineup includes Disk Storage Systems, Tape Systems, Virtual Tape Appliances, SAN Switches, and Storage Management Software.
LIFEBOOK
, AMILO Fujitsu's range of notebook computers and tablet PCs.
) - virtual information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, such as servers and storage functionality - from Fujitsu's data centers.
In Japan, the service, which had been offered as the On-Demand Virtual System Service (OViSS), is now known as FGCP/S5. Globally, the service is delivered under the name Global Cloud Platform
.
Fujitsu has also launched a Windows Azure
powered Global Cloud Platform in a partnership with Microsoft
. This offering, delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS
), is known as FGCP/A5 in Japan, and is operated from a Fujitsu data center in Japan. It offers a set of application development frameworks, such as Microsoft .NET, Java and PHP, and data storage capabilities consistent with the Windows Azure platform provided by Microsoft. The basic service consists of compute, storage, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure AppFabric technologies such as Service Bus and Access Control Service, with options for interoperating services covering implementation and migration of applications, system building, systems operation, and support.
Fujitsu also offers local cloud platforms, such as in Australia, that provide the ability to rely on its domestic data centers which keep sensitive financial data under local jurisdiction and compliance standards.
compatible CPU, the "Venus" 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx model is included in the K computer
, th world's fastest supercomputer in june 2011 with a rating of over 8 petaflops, and in November 2011, K became the first computer to top 10 petaflops in september 2011.
), represents the symbol for infinity
. As of April 2010, Fujitsu is in the process of rolling out a new slogan focused on entering into partnerships with its customers and retiring the "possibilities are infinite" tagline
. The new slogan is "shaping tomorrow with you".
standard.
Greenpeace
's Cool IT Leaderboard of December 2010 "evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change" and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 17 leading manufacturers, on the strength of "well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology" and "[standing] out as one of the only companies to set a future [Carbon Dioxide] savings goal for its product solutions."
In Greenpeace
's Guide to Greener Electronics of October 2010 the company ranks 13th out of 18 leading electronics manufacturers. Greenpeace criticises Fujitsu for its slow progress in phasing out polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFR). Fujitsu is eliminating PVC from its products by the end of 2013 but has not committed to abolishing all BFRs.
Multinational corporation
A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...
information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider (after IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
and Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
) measured by revenues.
Fujitsu's central focus is on providing IT-driven business solutions, but the company and its subsidiaries also offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of personal computing
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
, telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s and advanced microelectronics
Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...
. It has approximately 172,000 employees worldwide supporting customers in over 70 countries,
20th century
The company was established on June 20, 1935, under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō , a spinoff of the Fuji Electric CompanyFuji Electric
, operating under the brand name FE, is a Japanese holding company that retains manufacturing companies of pressure transmitters, flowmeters, gas analyzers, controllers, inverters, pumps, generators, ICs, motors, and power equipments.-History:...
, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company
Furukawa Group
Furukawa Group formerly Furukawa zaibatsu is one of Japan's 15 largest industrial groups. Its origins date back to 1875, founder Furukawa Ichibei. This group specialized in mining, electronics, and chemicals industry before World War II....
and German conglomerate Siemens
Siemens AG
Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu
Zaibatsu
is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.-Terminology:...
, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.
In 1954, Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 the transistorized FACOM 222. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū .
In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale
Kawasaki Frontale
is a J. League Division 1 association football club. The team is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki.-History:...
as a Fujitsu soccer club. Kawasaki Frontale has now been a J. League
J. League
The or is the top division of and is the top professional association football league in Japan. It is one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football and the only league given top class 'A' ranking by the AFC. Currently, J. League Division 1 is the first level of the Japanese...
football club since 1999.
In 1971, Fujitsu signed an OEM agreement with the Canadian company, Consolidated Computers Ltd (later Consolidated Computer Inc.) to distribute CCL's world leading data entry product, Key-Edit. Fujitsu joined both ICL who earlier began marketing Key-Edit in the British Commonwealth of countries as well as in both western and eastern Europe; and CCL's direct marketing staff in Canada, USA, London (UK) and Frankfurt. Mers Kutt, inventor of Key-Edit and founder of CCL, was the common thread that led to Fujitsu’s later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl
Gene Amdahl
Gene Myron Amdahl is a Norwegian-American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation...
.
In 1990, Fujitsu acquired 80% of the UK-based computer company International Computers Limited (ICL) for $1.29 billion (ICL was renamed Fujitsu Services in 2002). In July 1991, ICL (Fujitsu) acquired more than half of the Russian company KME-CS (Kazan Manufacturing Enterprise of Computer Systems, Kazan
Kazan
Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...
, Tatarstan
Tatarstan
The Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan, which is one of Russia's largest and most prosperous cities. The republic borders with Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, and with the Mari El, Udmurt,...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
). The agreement was signed between Peter Bonfield (President of ICL) and Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Tatarstan Republic).
In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color plasma display
Plasma display
A plasma display panel is a type of flat panel display common to large TV displays or larger. They are called "plasma" displays because the technology utilizes small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases, or what are in essence chambers more commonly known as fluorescent...
. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.
In 1993, Fujitsu entered into a joint manufacturing venture with AMD to merge flash memory
Flash memory
Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data...
operations. The jointly-produced flash memory product was named Spansion
Spansion
Spansion Inc. is a Flash memory chip maker that designs, develops and manufactures NOR flash memory products. The company has over 3,400 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Spansion is a former joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu....
. As part of the merger deal, AMD contributed its flash memory group, Fab 25 in Texas, its R&D facilities and assembly plants in Thailand, Malaysia and China; Fujitsu provided its Flash memory business division and the Malaysian Fujitsu Microelectronics final assembly and test operations.
From February 1989 until mid-1997, Fujitsu built the FM Towns
FM Towns
The FM Towns system is a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to the summer of 1997. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and PC games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs...
PC variant. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a gaming console compatible with the FM Towns games.
Amdahl
Amdahl Corporation
Amdahl Corporation is an information technology company which specializes in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products. Founded in 1970 by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997...
became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu in 1997 and with it the DMR consulting group, based in Canada.
In 1998, Fujitsu was headquartered in Nakahara-ku
Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki
is one of the 7 wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 229,867 and a density of 15,640 persons per km²...
, Kawasaki
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area....
, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
and maintained an office in Chiyoda
Chiyoda, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Chiyoda ward. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 people per km², making it by far the least populated of the special wards...
, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
.
In June 1999 Fujitsu's historical connection with Siemens was revived, when the two companies agreed to merge their European computer operations into a new 50:50 joint venture called Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers B.V. was a Japanese and German IT vendor. The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany...
, which became the world's fifth-largest computer manufacturing company. On April 1, 2009, Fujitsu acuired Siemens' stake in Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers B.V. was a Japanese and German IT vendor. The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany...
for approximately EUR450m. Fujitsu Siemens Computers became Fujitsu Technology Solutions
Fujitsu Technology Solutions
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is one of the leading European IT vendors with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India...
from this date.
21st century
In October 2004, Fujitsu's Australian subsidiary bought the Australian arm of Atos Origin, a systems implementation company specializing in SAP
SAP ERP
The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors...
.
On April 1, 2006, Fujitsu Software Corporation merged with Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.
In October 2007, Fujitsu launched its new $10 million facility in Noida, India.
In October 2007, Fujitsu's Australia and New Zealand subsidiary bought Infinity Solutions Ltd, a New Zealand IT hardware, services and consultancy company.
In January 2009, Fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its HDD business to Toshiba
Toshiba
is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
. Transfer of the business was completed on October 1. 2009.
In March 2009, Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu") announced that it has decided to convert FDK Corporation (Securities Code: 6955, "FDK"), currently an equity-method affiliate of Fujitsu, to a consolidated subsidiary from May 1, 2009 (tentative schedule) by subscribing to a private placement to increase FDK's capital. More details are available through FDK
Operations
Fujitsu Laboratories
Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu's Research and DevelopmentResearch and development
The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
division, has 1,300 employees and a capital of 5 Billion Yen. It is run by Tatsuo Tomita.
Fujitsu Technology Solutions
The CEMEA&I region (Continental Europe, Middle East, Africa & India) plays an important role within the Fujitsu Group. Here, Fujitsu Technology Solutions - evolved from the former joint venture Fujitsu Siemens ComputersFujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers B.V. was a Japanese and German IT vendor. The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany...
– holds global responsibility for research, development and distribution of all x86 servers produced by Fujitsu. The company’s Dynamic Infrastructures
Dynamic Infrastructure
Dynamic Infrastructure is an information technology paradigm concerning the design of data centers so that the underlying hardware and software can respond dynamically to changing levels of demand in more fundamental and efficient ways than before...
strategy, was also born here. The term Dynamic Infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of IT products, solutions, and services – from PCs and notebooks, to data center solutions, and Infrastructure as a Service and Managed Infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands of today’s economy
Fujitsu Consulting
Fujitsu Consulting is the consulting and services arm of the Fujitsu group, providing information technology consultingInformation technology consulting
Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives...
, implementation and management services.
Fujitsu Consulting was founded in 1973 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, under its original name "DMR" (an acronym of the three founder's names: Pierre Ducros, Serge Meilleur and Alain Roy During the next decade, the company established a presence throughout Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, before extending its reach to international markets. For nearly thirty years, DMR Consulting grew to become an international consulting firm, changing its name to Fujitsu Consulting in 2002 after being acquired by Fujitsu Ltd.
Fujitsu General
Fujitsu Ltd has a 46.05% shareholding in Fujitsu General, which manufactures and markets various air conditioning units and humidity controlDehumidifier
A dehumidifier is typically a household appliance that reduces the level of humidity in the air, usually for health reasons. Humid air can cause mold and mildew to grow inside homes, which pose various health risks. Very humid climates or air make some people extremely uncomfortable, causing...
solutions. A similar venture is sponsored by Fujitsu in India, called General Airconditioners
General Airconditioners
General Airconditioner is an air conditioners manufacturer in India based in Pondicherry. It is joint venture between Fujitsu General and ETA-Ascon group based in Dubai....
.
Products and services
Computing products
Fujitsu markets personal computingPersonal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
, telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s and advanced microelectronics
Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...
solutions that go beyond the off-the shelf products.
Product lines include:
PRIMERGY
Primergy
PRIMERGY is the name of Fujitsu's x86 server family. The PRIMERGY family includes Tower Servers, Rack Servers, and Blade Servers, as part of Fujitsu's Dynamic Infrastructures Portfolio....
, Fujitsu's server family including Tower Servers, Rack Servers, and Blade Servers.
In May 2011, Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone space again, Microsoft announcing plans that Fujitsu would release Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...
devices.
ETERNUS, Fujitsu’s storage hardware and software infrastructure as part of the company’s Dynamic Infrastructures Portfolio.
The word aeternus means "eternal" in Latin. Fujitsu adopted this name for the global storage brand to match the company’s concepts; of protecting customer assets forever and ensuring continuous business operation.
The ETERNUS product lineup includes Disk Storage Systems, Tape Systems, Virtual Tape Appliances, SAN Switches, and Storage Management Software.
LIFEBOOK
Lifebook
LIFEBOOK is line of laptop computers made by Fujitsu.Within the LIFEBOOK family, Fujitsu offers a range of thin and light, portable, and desktop-alternative notebooks, as well as convertible and Tablet PCs.-History:...
, AMILO Fujitsu's range of notebook computers and tablet PCs.
Cloud computing
Fujitsu offers a highly reliable public cloud service delivered from data centers in Japan, Australia, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany based on its Global Cloud Platform strategy announced in 2010. The platform delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaSIAAS
IAAS can refer to the following:*Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, British professional body renamed 1993 as the Association of Building Engineers* Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, institute of Tribhuvan University, Nepal...
) - virtual information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, such as servers and storage functionality - from Fujitsu's data centers.
In Japan, the service, which had been offered as the On-Demand Virtual System Service (OViSS), is now known as FGCP/S5. Globally, the service is delivered under the name Global Cloud Platform
Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform
Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform is a Fujitsu cloud computing platform that aims to deliver standardized enterprise-class public cloud services globally....
.
Fujitsu has also launched a Windows Azure
Azure Services Platform
The Windows Azure Platform is a Microsoft cloud platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers. Windows Azure Platform is thus classified as platform as a service and forms part of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy, along with their software as a service...
powered Global Cloud Platform in a partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
. This offering, delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS
Platform as a service
Platform as a service is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service...
), is known as FGCP/A5 in Japan, and is operated from a Fujitsu data center in Japan. It offers a set of application development frameworks, such as Microsoft .NET, Java and PHP, and data storage capabilities consistent with the Windows Azure platform provided by Microsoft. The basic service consists of compute, storage, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure AppFabric technologies such as Service Bus and Access Control Service, with options for interoperating services covering implementation and migration of applications, system building, systems operation, and support.
Fujitsu also offers local cloud platforms, such as in Australia, that provide the ability to rely on its domestic data centers which keep sensitive financial data under local jurisdiction and compliance standards.
Microprocessor
Fujitsu produce SPARCSPARC
SPARC is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems and introduced in mid-1987....
compatible CPU, the "Venus" 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx model is included in the K computer
K computer
The K computer – named for the Japanese word , which stands for 10 quadrillion – is a supercomputer being produced by Fujitsu at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan. In June 2011, TOP500 ranked K the world's fastest supercomputer, with a rating...
, th world's fastest supercomputer in june 2011 with a rating of over 8 petaflops, and in November 2011, K became the first computer to top 10 petaflops in september 2011.
Advertising
The old slogan "The possibilities are infinite" can be found below the company's logo on major advertisements and ties in with the small logo above the letters J and I of the word Fujitsu. This smaller logo (∞Lemniscate
In algebraic geometry, a lemniscate refers to any of several figure-eight or ∞ shaped curves. It may refer to:*The lemniscate of Bernoulli, often simply called the lemniscate, the locus of points whose product of distances from two foci equals the square of half the interfocal distance*The...
), represents the symbol for infinity
Infinity
Infinity is a concept in many fields, most predominantly mathematics and physics, that refers to a quantity without bound or end. People have developed various ideas throughout history about the nature of infinity...
. As of April 2010, Fujitsu is in the process of rolling out a new slogan focused on entering into partnerships with its customers and retiring the "possibilities are infinite" tagline
Tagline
A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product , or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product...
. The new slogan is "shaping tomorrow with you".
Environmental record
Fujitsu reports that all its notebook and tablet PCs released globally comply with the latest Energy StarEnergy Star
Energy Star is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products originated in the United States of America. It was first created as a United States government program during the early 1990s, but Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union have also adopted...
standard.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
's Cool IT Leaderboard of December 2010 "evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change" and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 17 leading manufacturers, on the strength of "well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology" and "[standing] out as one of the only companies to set a future [Carbon Dioxide] savings goal for its product solutions."
In Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
's Guide to Greener Electronics of October 2010 the company ranks 13th out of 18 leading electronics manufacturers. Greenpeace criticises Fujitsu for its slow progress in phasing out polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFR). Fujitsu is eliminating PVC from its products by the end of 2013 but has not committed to abolishing all BFRs.
See also
External links
- Fujitsu
- Fujitsu-general.com, Fujitsu General
- Chipdb.org, Pictures of Fujitsu-made CPU