Fujitsu Inks OEM Partnership With Eucalyptus to Deliver Private Cloud Solution

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced that Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leading provider of IT-based solutions, has selected Eucalyptus to power the NuVola Private Cloud Platform(TM) offering. A combination of Fujitsu’s class-leading server and storage appliances, virtualization software, and Eucalyptus’ on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software, the offering provides a purpose-built, prepackaged on-premise cloud offering that transforms business critical processes by leveraging the security and scalability of the cloud.

"Our partnership with Eucalyptus furthers our vision of delivering integrated IT-based solutions, while reinforcing our longstanding reputation for quality and performance," said Vic Herring, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Group at Fujitsu Frontech North America. "Eucalyptus is the most widely deployed on-premise IaaS solution on the market based on its open approach to cloud computing and highly scalable architecture. This unmatched level of industry leadership, coupled with seamless integration and compatibility with AWS, makes Eucalyptus a powerful partner in helping our customers realize the benefits of the cloud."

Integrating technology from key partners including Eucalyptus, the NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution is purposely built to address customer pain points for a variety of functional business processes. Central to the platform is Fujitsu’s ETERNUS(R) storage and PRIMERGY(R) server hardware. By leveraging a broad range of storage, server, virtualization, and cloud capabilities, the NuVola Private Cloud appliance can be fine-tuned to match customer needs, both now and in the future.

"The NuVola solution provides users with the ability to increase business agility by rapidly scaling their on-premise infrastructure," said Said Ziouani, executive vice president of sales at Eucalyptus. "This solution represents the ideal infrastructure-ready approach to cloud computing as it grants customers immediate access to private and public clouds through our integration with the AWS. By partnering with Fujitsu, this is a perfect approach to simplifying deployment and bringing integrated cloud solutions directly to our customers."

The NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution is available immediately. For more information on NuVola appliances, please visit http://us.fujitsu.com/NuVola .