Fujitsu Opens Platform Solution Center in Shanghai; Fourth Location Extends Coverage Throughout Southeast and East Asia

Tuesday April 11 2:42 PM

Fujitsu has been expanding the number of verification and evaluation facilities for its platform products globally, and the facilities have been introduced as the Platform Solution Centers (PSCs) in the Asian region. The new PSC is the fourth that Fujitsu has launched, following the establishment of sites in Japan, Singapore and Korea. With the new opening in Shanghai, one of China's largest business centers, Fujitsu aims to provide the highest level of convenience for both its customers and partner companies.

With the dynamic changes of today's business environment and the shift toward open-standard platforms, the IT systems supporting customers'businesses are becoming increasingly diverse and complex. Accordingly, there is an increasing need to verify product operation and performance prior to constructing new systems.

The new center, comprising an area of 1,000 square meters, is equipped with approximately 40 servers and storage systems, and offers a full range of services for platform products, from consulting to system verification, in one location. The new center is also linked via a network to Fujitsu's PSC in Japan and other facilities worldwide, enabling Fujitsu to quickly and effectively propose reliable, cost-effective, and pre-verified systems tailored to customer needs for high performance and functionality and to support customers' global business expansion and growth.

The new center also enables Fujitsu and its partners to verify application software and solutions for their customers using platform products at the center.

Fujitsu will also establish a new PSC in Hong Kong as a satellite facility of PSC (Shanghai) to bolster the company's capabilities to respond to the needs of customers in the financial services industry for verification and evaluation of platform products.

"Fujitsu considers IT solutions as one of the key elements in accelerating China's economic development. Beginning with the establishment of PSC (Shanghai), we would like to continue to contribute to the further development of China's economy by
offering our platform products, which feature high reliability and performance, that comprise the core of IT systems," said Chiaki Ito, corporate executive vice president, Fujitsu Limited.

Masayuki Tomimuro, vice president, Fujitsu (China) Holdings Co., Ltd., dded, "While providing a wide range of platform solution products that support the business strategies of our customers, we will actively use PSC (Shanghai) and PSC (Hong Kong), both as a hub to closely link customers with Fujitsu and as a place where we can help customers transform their IT ideas into reality."

Function of the Platform Solution Center (Shanghai)

PSC (Shanghai) will maintain a dedicated staff for platform product consulting and will provide the following services as part of its role in solving IT system problems for both Fujitsu customers and partner companies.

1. Verification of Performance and Quality Tailored to Customer System Requirements

With a wide range of cutting-edge servers, storage and network products on hand, the facility can operationally verify an optimized level of performance and quality for customer systems in a variety of product combinations.

2. Offerings of Platform Products Consulting

In order to construct systems that best solve the IT problems of our customers, the center's staff will help select platform products, verify prototype systems, introduce platform products from Fujitsu and other vendors, and even conduct demonstrations.

3. Latest Information on IT Systems Provided

The facility provides customers with information on cutting-edge products from Fujitsu and its partner companies, Fujitsu solutions geared toward current market trends, and examples of system designs for their businesses.

Overview of the Platform Solution Center (Shanghai)

Name: Platform Solution Center (Shanghai)
Start of Operations: April 11, 2006
Location: Citigroup Tower, Pudong, Shanghai
Area: 1,000m2

Main Equipment:
- Thirty servers (PRIMEPOWER UNIX servers with Solaris(TM) Operating System; PRIMEQUEST mission-critical IA servers with Microsoft(R) Windows Server(TM) 2003, Novell(R) SUSE(R) LINUX Enterprise Server9, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v4; and
PRIMERGY IA servers with Microsoft(R) Windows Server(TM) 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES)
- Six storage systems (ETERNUS storage systems)
- Middleware
- Hardware and application software from Fujitsu's partner companies

Main Facilities:
- Four verification rooms
- Seminar room
- Briefing room
- Technology showcase area
- Other

Partner Quotes

Intel Corporation
Carol Barrett, Director of Enterprise Platform Marketing, Server Platforms Group
Intel welcomes the opening of the 'Platform Solution Center' in Shanghai. China continues to be the highest growth country in APAC with 16% Y/Y growth in q4'05 according to IDC, underpinned by strong Intel(R) Xeon(R) Server Shipments. Intel(R) Itanium(R) server revenue as a percentage of IBM Power and Sun SPARC server revenue also grew to 17% and 43% respectively. We look forward to enterprise customers benefiting from this PSC in order to take advantage of Intel(R) Itanium(R) platforms that are designed to provide greater choice and mainframe-class reliability and Intel(R) Xeon(R) platforms that provide enterprise-proven dependability and excellent performance.

Microsoft Corporation
Bill Laing, General Manager, Windows Server Division
Microsoft congratulates Fujitsu on opening its Platform Solution Center in Shanghai. China is a strategic country for joint sales opportunities of Windows Server products running on the Fujitsu platform. The Platform Solution Center in Shanghai will provide our customers with important services like pre-verification, performance evaluation and technical support and consultation so that customers can confidently run their mission-critical systems on the Windows platform.

Oracle Corporation
Judson Althoff, Vice President, Worldwide Platform and Distribution Alliances
Oracle has been working with Fujitsu for 17 years to deliver solutions to our clients that have a positive impact on their businesses. The solution development, benchmarking and consulting services available through this new Center in Shanghai will showcase our joint solutions and demonstrate to our customers and prospects, the innovation that our solutions offer to impact our customers' productivity and bottom line.

Red Hat, Inc.
Gus Robertson, Vice President, Channels and Alliances Asia Pacific
Red Hat welcomes the opening of "Platform Solution Center (Shanghai)". Red Hat has worked together with Fujitsu to deliver Linux solutions with high levels of performance, reliability, availability and scalability with the benefits of open source innovation. We are expecting that the PSC(Shanghai) will better serve Chinese customers who consider to choose our Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution running on Fujitsu platforms.

Symantec Corporation
Bernard Kwok, President, Greater China Region
Symantec welcomes the opening of Fujitsu's new Platform Solution Center in Shanghai and its support for the rapidly growing China market. Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the complete protection of their information, infrastructure, and interactions. Through the new Fujitsu PSC (Shanghai), Symantec looks forward to continuing its collaboration with Fujitsu to provide customers with solutions tailored for the China market.

About Fujitsu Limited

Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702, ADR: FJTSY) is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US $44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.

Source: Fujitsu Limited

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