OREANDA-NEWS. July 12, 2012. Fujitsu today announced that, as of July 12, it is providing its public cloud service, Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform/S5 (FGCP/S5) from western Japan. This is in addition to the services it already operates in five countries around the world as well as eastern Japan.

By providing FGCP/S5 from western Japan, customers using the service can have their data and systems distributed through both eastern and western Japan, making for a more disaster-tolerant ICT platform.

Along with providing FGCP/S5 from western Japan, Fujitsu has also introduced a Backup Construction/Operation Support, in which customers can use backup software included in FGCP/S5 system templates, while Fujitsu personnel create and help operate backup environments. This will offer unprecedented speed and flexibility to customers in setting up backup environments that can grow along with their businesses.

FGCP/S5 services in the eastern and western regions of Japan will be available on virtual servers with performance levels double and quadruple those of the best of today's virtual servers. Big data processes that had previously required multiple virtual servers can now run on one.

To mark the launch of FGCP/S5 being provided from both eastern and western Japan, Fujitsu is offering discounts of as much as 40% through December on its FGCP/S5 service.

Cloud services, in which servers and other ICT infrastructures are made available on demand via the Internet, offer the advantages of high scalability and lower operational costs. They have also attracted more interest recently as an approach to maintaining business continuity. In addition to the five countries around the world from which it is already offered, Fujitsu is now providing its FGCP/S5 service from western Japan in response to customer demand.