Fujitsu has announced the ‘Fujitsu Computing as a Service (CaaS)’ to accelerate digital transformation by offering access to some of the world’s most advanced computing technologies via the cloud for commercial use.
Fujitsu will begin delivery of these new services to the Japanese market starting in October 2022 with a global rollout to international regions including Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas to follow.
As the first step, Fujitsu will begin preorders for ‘Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC’, which offers the computing power of the ‘Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000,’ which shares the same CPU at the heart of the supercomputer Fugaku. In the coming months, Fujitsu will further add services for its Digital Annealer technology and AI cloud services to its service lineup in order to provide further value-added services.
Vivek Mahajan, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Limited, comments: ‘CaaS will provide customers with seamless access to services on the public cloud to meet rapidly increasing computing demands, leveraging Fujitsu’s world-leading advanced computing technologies. In the future, we look to further expand the portfolio with access to technologies like quantum computing. This move marks an important milestone toward democratizing high-performance and quantum computing and will play an important role in the achievement of Fujitsu’s Purpose “to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation.”’
Fujitsu will draw on CaaS to promote the commercial use of a range of advanced computing technologies, which have until the present been largely limited to applications in an academic context due in part to prohibitively high investment costs and implementation and operational loads.
Fujitsu anticipates that CaaS will contribute to solving societal issues, as well as persistent challenges in a wide range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, disaster prevention (including earthquake and tsunami prediction), and medical fields such as drug discovery and gene therapy.
Cost remains a major obstacle for many companies and organisations aiming to apply advanced computing technologies like Fujitsu's Digital Annealer and high performance computing (HPC) in their business. To address this issue, Fujitsu will offer users easy access to a range of services under its new CaaS portfolio, allowing users from a wide range of industries to easily tap into the power offered by Fujitsu’s advanced computing technologies.
