Fujitsu Launches NuVola Private Cloud Platform Solution
October 31, 2011
Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leading provider of IT-based business solutions, including advanced technology products, biometric security, and digital media solutions, today has announced its new private cloud computing platform named NuVolaTM. The NuVola Private Cloud Platform™ solution is an appliance-based offering built with class-leading Fujitsu server and storage products, and paired with advanced software tools and utilities that transform business critical processes by leveraging private cloud computing power, security and scalability…
“Fujitsu’s NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution shares with Myricom a key strategy: getting extreme performance out of your network hardware”
NuVola Private Cloud Platform appliances can transform a host of functional business processes to improve speed, efficiency and performance. Integrating technology from key partners, each NuVola appliance is purposely built to address customer pain points for a variety of functional processes. Initially, NuVola Private Cloud Platform appliances will focus on the functional IT process areas of search, storage, multi-media transcoding and data analytics.
“The NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution represents Fujitsu’s dedication to creating value in an environment where changes in technology and customer need drive our innovation,” said Vic Herring, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FFNA. “Fujitsu has developed strong partnerships with key technology providers that when combined with our core offerings and deployed in creative ways will have a transformative impact on how businesses use IT.”
Central to all NuVola Private Cloud Platform solutions is Fujitsu’s class-leading ETERNUS® storage and PRIMERGY® server hardware. Leveraging the broad portfolio of storage and server system configurations and capabilities, each NuVola appliance can be tuned to match customer needs, both now and in the future.
“Fujitsu remains focused on delivering value to customers in the form of increased functionality and maintaining its reputation for quality and performance,” stated Richard McCormack, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Systems, Fujitsu America. “Fujitsu’s comprehensive range of cloud solutions delivers benefit across the full spectrum of the challenges businesses face. NuVola represents another example of how Fujitsu is helping its companies realize these benefits.”
Private Cloud environments must match the specific needs of customers, thus there is a premium on key parameters, including speed, performance and value. Fujitsu has aligned itself with hardware and software partners whose focus in on maximizing private cloud performance with an economical perspective.
Myricom, a technology leader in extreme-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) solutions specialized for vertical markets, is specified to provide network adapters for NuVola.
“Fujitsu’s NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution shares with Myricom a key strategy: getting extreme performance out of your network hardware,” said Dr. Nan Boden, CEO of Myricom. “Cloud computing appliances are a powerful starting point in our strategic alliance with Fujitsu. Myricom adaptable networking within the NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution is where it all comes together.”
Eucalyptus Systems, the world’s most widely deployed cloud computing software platform for on-premise (private) Infrastructure as a Service clouds, provides the platform and web services software layer for NuVola.
“Working with Fujitsu on the NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution reinforces our belief that the cloud must exist in many forms to meet the current and future needs of our customers,” commented David P. Butler, Vice President of Marketing for Eucalyptus Systems. “Eucalyptus as part of the NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution represents an optimal infrastructure-ready approach to private cloud computing.”