OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced that new facilities using modular datacenter technology went into operation today at its Akashi System Center, the company's main datacenter serving western Japan.

As the ways datacenters are used become increasingly varied and complex, such as to enhance business continuity or to use cloud services, Fujitsu has prepared two different types of new datacenters at Akashi System Center:
1. Seismic isolation datacenter: A top-spec center designed for mission-critical systems operations; and
2. Earthquake-resistant datacenter: A standard-spec datacenter offering an ideal balance of cost and quality.

This approach lets customers choose the services best-suited to their particular needs, including within the datacenter facilities.

As its main datacenters, Fujitsu opened the Tatebayashi System Center in 1995 and the Akashi System Center in 1997. Today Fujitsu operates 68 datacenters throughout Japan for its outsourcing businesses, and has over 40 datacenters outside of Japan that can be linked globally in order to meet the need for customer expansion to worldwide locations.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, as a way of enhancing the business continuity, there is a high need for datacenters to create disaster recovery systems, such as distributed systems and remote backups. At the same time, cloud-based systems are being used to upgrade companies' business systems and even provide uninterrupted operations for mission-critical systems. In these ways, the use of datacenters is becoming increasingly diverse.

In expanding the Akashi System Center, Fujitsu used modular datacenter technology and situated datacenters with different specifications at the same location to be able to meet a variety of datacenter needs. This puts Fujitsu in an even better position to offer outsourcing services optimized to the customer's ICT requirements, including operational management services that build on the company's long track record and cloud services based on advanced technology.