Johannesburg, 16 Aug 2016
Fujitsu takes to the road with its popular Fujitsu World Tour roadshow, under the theme 'Human Centric Innovation in Action', with a local stop in Johannesburg, at The Forum, The Campus, on 18 August.
With more than 11 000 delegates expected at 22 venues in 18 countries across six continents, the Fujitsu World Tour provides a unique opportunity to experience how Fujitsu can support its digital transformation challenges. Furthermore, Fujitsu and third-party experts will share their experience and advise customers on how they can best walk the digital tightrope.
The seven-month Fujitsu World Tour showcases the latest trends in digital transformation, hybrid IT, mobilising the enterprise, business-centric infrastructure, security, the Internet of things, and Fujitsu's integrated end-to-end value chain of products, solutions and services.
Dr Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer for the EMEIA region at Fujitsu, says: "Today's hyper-connected world is dramatically changing the way we live and work. Technology is being embedded in every aspect of business and society, and almost everything can be networked, resulting in huge quantities of data. Fujitsu aims to empower people with the intelligence and information to make good use of that data and drive digital transformation with the help of ICT."
Each stop on the tour is presented as a forum where customers and prospects can discuss business objectives, gain inspiration on how to balance digital transformation requirements with everyday ICT challenges, and experience demonstrations of practical solutions. Fujitsu's goal is to demonstrate how it works with customers and partners to leverage the power of human-centric innovation to change the way people work, think and collaborate. Through a series of expert talks, breakout sessions and technology showcases, the company demonstrates new ways of using ICT intended to benefit business and society as a whole.
Fujitsu recognises that across industries and countries, technology plays an increasingly crucial role in everyday life. The World Tour aims to provide inspiration, demonstrating how to leverage the unprecedented amount of ICT power that customers have at their fingertips today.
Locations and dates
The Fujitsu World Tour 2016 begins in April and runs through October. The full list of dates and locations is at http://www.fujitsu.com/worldtour.
Fujitsu World Tour 2016: Additional information
Complete package for attendees: Keynotes, break-out sessions, expert talks and exhibition
Throughout the Fujitsu World Tour 2016, Fujitsu and partners will share insights into how customers can reshape the role of ICT within their business and societies. Each event includes three elements:
* High-level keynotes from Fujitsu executives, customers, partners futurists and industry experts
* Break-out sessions with industry experts.
* An exhibition area where Fujitsu and its partners present their latest products, solutions and services.
Event keynotes feature Fujitsu executives and industry experts to provide updates on the latest IT trends:
* Vusi Thembekwayo, MC and guest speaker
* Udo W"urtz, Chief Evangelist Data Center Business EMEIA, covering: "The paradigm shift in the data centre, from hardware to software, defined".
* Frederico Carvalho, META Regional Business Director, Intel Corporation: "The vortex of change".
* Antonio Raposo, CIO Volkswagen Group South Africa: "Enabling manufacturing in this disruptive phase with Fujitsu as a game-changer towards innovation".
Exhibition area
The exhibition area demonstrates how organisations can simplify processes that will enable true innovation across the entire enterprise.
Category highlights include:
Digital transformation
* Enabling digital - meet Fujitsu's digital experts to help organisations on their journey to digital.
* Application transformation - a comprehensive range of solutions and services to enable the modernisation of almost any application and Transformational Application Managed Services to bridge the gap between the fast-changing digital world and existing business operations.
* SAP solutions:
* SAP-related solutions and services that aim to bring simplicity in a changing world and shape the digital future, with a specific focus on SAP HANA.
Hybrid IT
* Hybrid IT is the new reality for most organisations and is a bigger and more strategic topic to address than just hybrid cloud. Through Fujitsu's HybridIT approach, the company focuses on helping customers to get the perfect balance of supporting 'power innovation' while robustly managing costs, risks and benefits.
* Fujitsu PRIMEFlEX for vShape
* Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX for VMWare vSAN
Internet of things
* Fujitsu will showcase its Internet of things (IOT) technologies as a business-growth enabler for digitally balanced enterprises. Under the theme: "Human Centric Innovation in Action", groundbreaking IOT solutions play an essential role in the transformation of business processes.
* PegaSys - airline and transportation solution - create and maintain an airline flight schedule, plan and resource the schedule with the necessary aircraft and crew, track and manage, in real-time, aircraft and crew activities by problem and alert management as well as automated solutions in order to address operational disruptions.
* Promise2 Financial Management Solution for local and provincial government.
Mobilising the enterprise
* Fujitsu offers a blended managed workplace service for today's digital business. This provides a first-class user experience, enables employees to be productive, to work from any device and any location securely, and frees them up to innovate and transform their businesses to meet their customers' needs.
* Via the Digital Workplace microsite, visitors can evaluate the gap between desire and reality with respect to their digital workplace environment, compare results with peer groups and register to run a more in-depth version of the study survey within their organisation.
* Unlimited usability and productivity with the new FUJITSU Tablet STYLISTIC R726 two-in-one device.
* The newest Fujitsu Workstation, from the CELSIUS family.
* A full display of all the current LIFEBOOK notebooks, ESPRIMO PCs, FUTRO thin clients and STYLISTIC tablets will give you the opportunity to look, touch and feel our range of CCD (client computing devices) portfolio of products.
Business-centric infrastructure
* Fujitsu is preparing its customers for future data growth scenarios and bringing the latest technology to all customers, no matter what size or business, with the introduction of new PRIMERGY dual-socket systems, ranging from tower servers to nodes for high-end server clusters:
* More throughput and higher performance with the latest processors and DDR4 memory technology.
* More security for data and system protection with TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module).
* Reduced costs for cooling thanks to extended operating temperature range.
* A completely new rack system (PRIMERGY RX2510 M2) designed for the service provider market.
* FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX allows organisations to accelerate their business expansion, eliminate complexity and reduce risk, enabling the faster deployment of more powerful data centre technologies. PRIMEFLEX enables a faster time to market while cutting operational cost. Offerings consist of a pre-integrated and pre-tested stack of server, storage and connectivity, coupled with software and management layers:
* New PRIMEFLEX for VMware VSAN: The fast track to hyper-converged IT.
* New PRIMEFLEX for SAP HANA.
* PRIMEFLEX for vShape.
Security
* Identity and access management (IAM) represents a fundamental component for each security concept and must be integrated in end-to-end solution scenarios. Millions of people are already successfully using Fujitsu's highly secure and hygienic palm vein authentication technology PalmSecure:
* PalmSecure ID Match and PalmSecure OEM solutions provide secure two-factor authentication with Fujitsu's biometric PalmSecure technology.
* PalmSecure bioLock is a unique SAP integration offering for fraud prevention.
* In conjunction with bioLock, SAP and Fujitsu South Africa will be launching their new self-service kiosk, branded "SelfService Connect" - connecting the unconnected in your business.
* PalmSecure ID Access manages physical access control and ultimate workplace protection by embedded palm-vein authentication.
* Fujitsu's smart security services are highlighted with a comprehensive offering of managed security services, security and resilience consulting services and cyber threat intelligence.
Industry solutions
* Fujitsu consults, designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for clients of all sizes in both the public and private sectors.
* Fujitsu will present dedicated solutions for financial services, transport, manufacturing and the public sector, as well as RFID solutions.
Partners
Partners supporting the Fujitsu World Tour are Intel, NetApp, Brocade, Suse, Veritas and Fujitsu PFU.
Online resources
Fujitsu World Tour 2016: http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/microsites/worldtour2016/index.html
Fujitsu World Tour video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOfSSch-wVc
Read the Fujitsu blog: http://blog.ts.fujitsu.com/
Follow Fujitsu on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Fujitsu_TS
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For regular news updates, bookmark the Fujitsu newsroom: http://ts.fujitsu.com/ps2/nr/index.aspx
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