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Note: As one of the biggest IT vendors you've never heard of, at least as far as the U.S. market goes, Fujitsu America understands a business-as-usual approach to launching its cloud platform might not be the best approach. So the world's third-largest IT services provider, and fifth-largest server and PC vendor, is debuting a trial of the North American version of its 2-year-old Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform of the Fujitsu Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, beginning May 31 and ending Aug. 31.
"We've seen decade after decade, the market follows where the applications go, where the solutions go. I think the three-month trial could be very powerful." While it might not appeal to the big guys like Oracle and SAP, Gens says there are tens of thousands of developers out there that may not have the resources to move their software to the cloud, and this offers an easier on-ramp.
A key concern will be pricing, but Gens' sense is Fujitsu understands that. "Amazon came in with a disrupter's mentality... they pretty well screwed-down pricing." There's not a lot of fat in the cloud market and he expects cloud service prices will drop. According to IDC, $1 out of every $20 of server capacity in 2010 was spent on cloud, and by 2015, that will be $1 out of every $6.
This is a major inflection point for the IT industry, says Gens, like...