Fujitsu invests billions in 'revolutionary' cloud computing

A revolutionary IT solution that will significantly reduce capital expenditure and operational costs for local businesses: That's how president and CEO of Fujitsu America Tony Doye is envisioning the impact of the new rage in information innovation, cloud computing.

The internet through web-based tools

Cloud computing allows for IT services to be retrieved via the internet through web-based tools, without a client being in direct connection to a server storing the information. IT providers just as global industry giant Fujitsu have invested billions of dollars in building cloud-like structures where they host information securely for customers, who have remote access to the data. Hence, capital and information management costs are reduced because customers don't have to own a server and they operate with leased capacity.

Just a day prior to the company's interview with Sunday Finance, one of Fujitsu's business associates in Jamaica, Digicel, launched its own cloud services to the local market. Digicel Business, the corporate arm of the telecom provider that offers business solutions, announced that it was now offering Cloud Backup to its corporate clients -- the first in a suite of cloud computing services from the company with plans to roll out additional services over the coming weeks and months including Hosted Email, Hosted BlackBerry Server, Virtual Server and Cloud Telephony. Digicel said its Cloud Backup provides enterprise-level protection of critical business data in other words managed by the company.

"It is secure, resilient, reliable and always on, protecting clients' business and data, regardless of location or device," said Digicel in a release last week.

Similar value of its cloud services

Fujitsu is trumpeting a similar value of its cloud services. To tell the truth, this is how the company said it has assisted millions of citizens and hundreds of businesses to recover from the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month.