Archived Press Releases - 2010

25 November 2010

Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY BX400 Opens Up Blade Computing for Midsize Companies

Fujitsu today announces the global availability of blade server technology designed especially for smaller and mid-size businesses that are looking for scalable efficiencies and consolidation. The new PRIMERGY BX400 is a fully-featured blade system built from the ground up as a user-friendly and versatile infrastructure designed for midsized customers with large computing and storage requirements, including branch offices.

24 November 2010

Fujitsu Opens Australia’s Most Advanced Data Centre in Perth

Fujitsu, together with Bankwest, announced the official opening of Australia’s most advanced, environmentally sustainable data centre in Perth. The new multi-million dollar Fujitsu Perth Data Centre will service the booming West Australian market and allow Fujitsu to target growing cloud solution opportunities in Asia.

17 November 2010

Fujitsu extends premium line of fi-series scanners

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, has announced today the availability of the Fujitsu fi-6110 document scanner - the latest addition to Fujitsu’s business scanner family. With its very compact design, the Fujitsu fi-6110 is one of the smallest and swiftest workgroup class document scanners in the market. It offers small businesses a powerful, easy to handle solution to capture different types of documents for use in various business applications. The Fujitsu fi-6110 succeeds the successful entry class fi-series model fi-5110C.

11 November 2010

Fujitsu partners with Rocket Software to deliver Legasuite™ application screen modernisation to Australia & New Zealand

In a joint initiative announced today between Fujitsu’s Legacy Modernisation Team and the Rocket Seagull brand from Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com), Rocket LegaSuite™ is now available in Australia and New Zealand to extend the effective life of legacy applications by updating green-screen systems to modern looking applications without any costly changes to the underlying code.

1 November 2010

IDG’S Computerworld Names Fujitsu as the leading Green-IT Organisation

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, has announced today that IDG’s Computerworld selected it as the leading Green-IT Organisation for 2010, highlighting the company’s commitment to sustainability across the business on a global scale.

28 October 2010

Fujitsu Included in “Low-Carbon and Environmental Leadership in the ICT Industry” Independent Study

The most detailed independent assessment of Green credentials ever carried out examines vendors driving initiatives to reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) of ICT, underlining companies with a global focus on sustainability. Fujitsu is proud to be among these vendors.

21 October 2010

Fujitsu Launches ‘Follow the Sun’ 24x7 Global Support for PostgreSQL

Fujitsu Australia Software Technology (FAST) has today announced the extension of its global support offerings by partnering with 2ndQuadrant to offer ‘Follow the Sun’ 24x7 global remote support options for PostgreSQL.

7 October 2010

Fujitsu launches Cloud Services Portal

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, today announced the launch of its self-service Cloud Services Portal, to offer a fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications, allowing enterprises to match technology systems and costs directly to changing business needs.

29 September 2010

Verve Energy Turns to Fujitsu to Provide IT Service Desk

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, has signed a new information technology contract with Western Australia’s largest electricity generation company, Verve Energy, for the provision of a Service Desk to provide a strategic and operational central point of contact for Verve Energy users to resolve service requests, incident management and change management requests.

20 September 2010

Fujitsu Drives Toyota’s IT Technology Direction

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, announced today that it has signed a four-year IT services contract with Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited, one of Australia's leading automotive companies. The new contract will see Fujitsu consolidate existing IT agreements and provide Managed Desktop and Service Desk support.

26 August 2010

Green IT: The Global Benchmark Report Reveals Lack of Green IT Maturity

Fujitsu today announced its research report Green IT: Global Benchmark, which contains findings of the first multi-country survey to determine the maturity of Green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.

24 August 2010

Fujitsu Returns Solid Result

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communication solutions has today announced strong financial results for the year, recording a net profit after tax of $1.496 million for the year ended 31 March 2010. The result was generated from total operating revenues of $116.4 million representing a significant increase in profit from the previous year.

16 July 2010

Fujitsu retains multimillion dollar contract with Defence

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions, has entered a new information technology contract with the Department of Defence for the delivery of multiple ICT services for its Distributed Computing Central Services (DCCS) contract – including the Defence Central ICT Service Helpdesk.

13 July 2010

Fujitsu and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Provide Global Cloud Computing

Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a new worldwide cloud computing partnership that enables Fujitsu to deploy the Windows Azure platform appliance in Fujitsu datacenters. Fujitsu will deliver a comprehensive set of new cloud services and solutions, including system integration, cloud migration and managed services, to customers and independent software vendors (ISVs). Fujitsu will also run its own applications on the Windows Azure platform appliance. The new Fujitsu cloud services and solutions based on the Windows Azure platform will be available first in Fujitsu’s datacenters in Japan, starting at the Fujitsu Tatebayashi System Center by the end of 2010, to be followed by other locations around the world. In addition to the appliance, Fujitsu will be providing services on the Windows Azure platform to customers on a global basis.

8 July 2010

Fujitsu Powers Government to Reduce Business Reporting Burden

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communication solutions has today announced its further commitment to the Australian Treasury’s Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program to support the Government's strategy to reduce the regulatory reporting burden of Australian businesses, now that the SBR has gone live.

8 July 2010

Fujitsu Powers Next-Generation Financial Reporting with Interstage XWand 11

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communication solutions has today announced the latest release of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) software Interstage® XWand® Version 11, designed to help companies increase automation, transparency and governance around financial activities. Interstage XWand has been adopted by customers in 27 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and South Africa

23 June 2010

Fujitsu releases next generation digital media software

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communication solutions has today announced the release of Fujitsu’s most reputable and advanced Digital Media software, TELentice Enterprise Suite V6, to empower organisations with the ability to better communicate their corporate messages through digital signage.

25 May 2010

Fujitsu Appoints Craig Baty as EGM Marketing and CTO

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communication solutions has today announced the appointment of Craig Baty, Executive General Manager of Marketing and Chief Technology Officer for Australia and New Zealand.

13 May 2010

Fujitsu and Salesforce.com Expand Global Partnership to Help Companies Deploy Cloud Computing

Fujitsu and salesforce.com today announced that they are expanding their global partnership, establishing Fujitsu as one of salesforce.com’s global systems integrators.

4 May 2010

Fujitsu secures IT services contract with WA Police

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions has signed a new information technology contract with WA Police for the provision of IT strategic services.

22 April 2010

Fujitsu Launches Global Cloud Strategy with Deployment of First Global Platform

Fujitsu today launched its global cloud strategy – a strategy developed through the company’s real experience in working with customers on cloud services and the testing and delivery of solutions across the world.

15 April 2010

Fujitsu Announces Group Environmental Protection Program, Stage VI

Fujitsu today announced its Group Environmental Protection Program, Stage VI, which sets new goals for fiscal 2010 through fiscal 2012 (April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2013).

8 April 2010

Housing credit may slow as major banks optimise profitability

Demand for home lending may outstrip supply as the major banks ration credit after rapid market share and balance sheet increases following the onset of the GFC, according to a new mortgage industry report.

6 April 2010

Canon captures Fujitsu to further advance and simplify ICT solutions

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions has secured a 40 month services agreement with Canon Australia to provide managed services to their Server, Desktop, Help Desk and other ICT operations.

1 March 2010

Fujitsu takes off into The Cloud

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of information technology and communications solutions, has today announced Fujitsu Cloud Services. Uniquely combining global development initiatives with local assets and expertise, Fujitsu Australia is now offering customers infrastructure, data and application solutions through certified data centres across Australia.

25 February 2010

Fujitsu Australia Hosts Cloud Forum

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions has today announced the panel of experts that will be featured at the upcoming Fujitsu Cloud Forum events in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. A further complement to what is set to be an exciting array of guest speakers; the panel will explore the technology advances of Cloud Services and the affects of Cloud on Australian businesses.

23 February 2010

Fujitsu Australia acquires TELentice IP

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions has today announced the acquisition of the global rights to the TELentice IP Technology platform, further enabling Fujitsu to significantly grow its digital media business on a global scale.

27 January 2010

RailCorp Extends Managed Services Contract with Fujitsu

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of information technology and communications solutions, has today announced the extension of its contract with RailCorp to provide managed services on their Desktop Support, Service Desk, Server Management and Data Centres operations.