Fujitsu Announces Extensive Support of Software-defined and Cloud Storage based on OpenStack and Ceph
London, May 27, 2014 – Fujitsu has initiated a number of proofs-of-concept with service providers and public sector institutions to deliver complete, highly-scalable, fault-tolerant storage solutions based on OpenStack and Ceph technology. The resulting solution, with unprecedented massive scale-out capabilities, will be generally available during the second half of 2014.
Fujitsu also announces with immediate effect OpenStack support of FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX systems. OpenStack is an open source cloud operating platform that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources in the datacentre environment. With ETERNUS OpenStack Volume Driver, customers can now provision resources hosted on ETERNUS DX systems in their environments and manage them centrally.
With both initiatives, Fujitsu is supporting its customers to use storage more efficiently in cloud-like environments and to embrace new technological paradigms faster for better business support.
Background
Exponential data growth is driving today’s storage architectures to their limits. Data I/O performance, storage scalability, traditional RAID technologies and data migration of petabyte volumes are creating enormous challenges for enterprise storage professionals. The accelerating costs of storage are consuming an increasing part of IT infrastructure budgets. New software-defined storage technologies like OpenStack and Ceph enable the deployment of highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant storage environments with a high potential to dramatically decrease costs-per-gigabyte. Fujitsu is an active contributor to the OpenStack community.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.4 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. For more information, please see
Fujitsu UK & Ireland
Fujitsu UK & Ireland is a leading IT systems, services and products company employing over 10,100 people with an annual revenue of £1.6 billion. Additionally, Fujitsu’s other operations in the UK bring its total employee numbers to over 14,000 and its total revenues to £1.8 billion. Its business is in enabling its customers to realise their objectives by exploiting information technology through its integrated product and service portfolio. This includes consulting, applications, systems integration, managed services and product for customers in the private and public sectors including retail, financial services, telecoms, government, defence and consumer sectors. For more information, please see
