Fujitsu aims for higher North American profile, profits

21.04.2006
Fujitsu, the third largest IT infrastructure service provider in the world, is unveiling this week a slew of IT partnerships and products that company executives expect will raise the company's profile and profits in North America.

The chief executive officer of Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation, Toshio Morohoshi, said the company, which has US$50 billion in revenue worldwide, will go from $3.5 billion in North American revenues to $10 billion by the end of the decade.

To kick off that initiative, the company unveiled six new products and two new partnerships and discussed Resource Coordinator, a system management technology formerly only available in Japan that will become available in North America this year.

Resource Coordinator, part of a suite of infrastructure management products marketed under the rubric Systemwalker, is a now a pilot in North America.

The Coordinator module has a view of all hardware resources including switches, storage, servers, and networks. It will enable an IT manager to define any group of hardware across that view as an enterprise service group, according to Keith Swenson, vice president of Research & Development at Fujitsu.

"For example everything around CRM becomes a service group," Swenson said.