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TRIOLE IT industrialization is here and it works

Fujitsu TRIOLE is a process for creating industrialized IT infrastructures and services, making them more efficient, more reliable, quicker to implement and easier to change.

What Business Needs

In order to compete and succeed, a business needs an IT with three main attributes;-

• Efficiency - the ability to perform duties quickly and accurately, at the lowest possible cost
• Continuity - the robustness, reliability and resilience to keep working under any circumstances without large expenditure on maintenance
• Agility - the ability to change quickly and easily, to adapt or resize as and when the market demands

Traditional IT Infrastructure

Because traditional IT Infrastructures are built from scratch, they generally fall into one of the following categories:-
Expensive to design and establish, then difficult to support
Not expensive to implement and support, but unreliable
Big, tough and reliable, but inflexible. They may work beautifully as designed, but any changes take months to implement, making the Infrastructure unresponsive to market changes.

Industrialized IT Infrastructure

In contrast, industrialized infrastructures are as consistent as manufactured goods. They are standardized in form and performance. In addition, because they are already virtualized and automated, they are repeatable, faster to implement, easier and more efficient to maintain and flexible in response to business or market changes.

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Fujitsu TRIOLE

The exciting new concept of industrialized IT infrastructures is being embraced and discussed by IT businesses all over the world. In Fujitsu, however, it is already a reality.

TRIOLE is based on a Japanese automobile industry practice by which components and processes are continually refined and standardized so that they can be re-used in many different applications.

This concept applies to most organizations, because approximately 80% of IT infrastructures are generic. Regardless of the industry, most business IT infrastructures have a database, need backups, carry out transactions, and use a network. Services are needed to support the IT infrastructure functions.

When you use TRIOLE industrialized components (including services) for these functions, you know that your core infrastructure has already been verified and will work the first time. As a proven method, it will also fail less often, make you more agile, save money up front and throughout its life.

TRIOLE is unique to Fujitsu and has been in use for several years in Japan. This means you can buy industrialized IT now, but only from Fujitsu. Other industrialization approaches are on the drawing board.

TRIOLE Development Process - Step 1 -

In response to customer demand, we begin by designing, bench testing and refining an infrastructure solution that includes hardware, software, connectivity and service support. This is the same process that conventional IT businesses would follow when making a built-from-scratch IT solution. We ensure that it works from the first time it is used.

We define this infrastructure solution as a Solution Build Model (SBM).
With an SBM, you can develop stable systems, reduce costs through pre-verification, and ensure that the system works from the first time it is used.
We define Packaged Solutions as SBM tuned for specific applications. A Packaged Solution is a complete and proven solution for a specific application or functionality that has already been designed, tested, and packaged.

TRIOLE Development Process - Step 2 -

Where we perceive that multiple demands will benefit particular solution, we create a template. The template defines a model and makes all or part of the Solution Build Model repeatable and modular. A template makes the models more rigid, providing well-defined procedures that are documented in key-stroke detail, leaving no room for human error.

Further development may include virtualization or automation and the template may also be used to create a discrete IT product.
By using a template, your company can develop a robust and secure system with reduced costs through pre-verification.
Furthermore, your systems can respond flexibly and repeatedly to change.

TRIOLE Development Process - Step 3 -

All infrastructures need services and support. TRIOLE industrializes these requirements too, so that they are predictable, consistent and compliant with the highest global standards. We define it as a Services Management Framework and it is as efficient, dependable and agile as any other outputs of the TRIOLE process.

The standardization provided by a Services Management Framework ensures that your new system will require less maintenance and effort.
You can also reduce operational cost while enabling standardized service delivery.

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TRIOLE Core Technologies

TRIOLE is based on the core technologies of virtualization and automation.

• Virtualization separates business applications and data from dedicated IT resources, and pools or shares the resources for flexible and efficient use.
  Through the virtualization, you can allow your IT infrastructure to adapt quickly to changing business requirements.
• Automation provides platforms and IT infrastructures that adjust automatically and dynamically to respond to changes in operation and the environment through self-monitoring and self-rectifying technologies.
  With automation, you can allow your IT systems to become flexible to meet changing demands and maintain stable operations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

These core technologies provide the benefits of agility, efficiency and continuity for your business. The technologies have already been built into Packaged Solutions, Solution Build Models and Templates, thereby delivering the benefits without the pain.

TRIOLE Delivers Efficiency

Earlier we talked about the three attributes an IT system must have in order to support your business. The first of these is efficiency.

TRIOLE delivers efficiency better than any other IT approach because TRIOLE infrastructure requires less maintenance, less effort due to reduced costs through the system lifecycle, improves responses for your business requirements, and improves resource utilization through the remarkable benefits of virtualization and automation.

TRIOLE Delivers Continuity

The second attribute we mentioned was continuity – the ability to keep the business running whatever happens. TRIOLE infrastructures can deliver continuity because they have already been verified, many times over.
(With built-from-scratch IT systems, every system is a new pilot.)

Because they are pre-tested using Fujitsu's more than half a century of experience in developing mission-critical systems, customers can develop high-availability, mission-critical systems. Existing installations show that TRIOLE is at least 30% more reliable than conventional systems. And because they're tried and tested thoroughly, they improve robustness & reliability of your system while ensuring a secure system.

TRIOLE Delivers Agility

The third essential attribute of a business-friendly IT system is agility.
The business world is changing faster than ever before and if your business cannot keep pace, you go out of business. In the past, big infrastructures have inhibited agility as they have been so slow and expensive to change that they seriously compromise the ability to compete.

However, TRIOLE infrastructures are easy and inexpensive to change.
TRIOLE infrastructures are able to grow with the business without trauma or risk of discontinuity.
As a result, your business is more competitive and faster to break new ground or enter into new markets.