After weathering the worldwide economic storm and breaking off its long-standing joint venture with Siemens, Fujitsu is positioning itself as a “truly global” IT company.
Speaking to media representatives yesterday morning, Fujitsu CEO and president Kai Flore explained the company is reinventing itself as a dynamic infrastructure provider, instead of simply remaining a product-centric entity.
Flore, who spoke at a press conference that signalled the start of the VISIT 2009 conference, in Munich, Germany, stated the company's new focus would see it strengthen its research and development (R&D) push. Fujitsu currently spends $2.6 billion a year on R&D, but this figure will grow in the near future.
Fujitsu is ranked the fourth largest global IT organisation in revenue terms, behind HP, IBM and Dell, and is the only non-US company to feature in the top-five revenue list.
“The goal is to be in the top three,” Flore said, adding that Fujitsu aims to set up an innovation centre in Europe within the next six months to tap into cloud virtualisation and other IT mega trends.
partners to create confidence in the market and position ourselves as a reliable partner.”
Flore conceded the company is losing PC market share, but stated Fujitsu is no longer solely dedicated to this line of business as it increasingly looks to innovation.
To achieve its aim of becoming a dynamic infrastructure provider, the company wants to create what Flore termed a “tight alliance” with various specialist companies. Such a network of partnerships would allow Fujitsu to provide integrated solutions to its customers, in terms of infrastructure as a service, managed infrastructure, infrastructure solutions, and infrastructure products and services.
As part of Fujitsu's business shift, Flore announced several new solutions: infrastructure-as-a-service for servers, the zero client concept, managed workplace for Windows 7, the Eternus DX disk storage line-up and managed storage, and new mainframe technology.
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