Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.
Fujitsu has combined data storage technology from Amdahl and its own operations into a new company, Fujitsu Software Technology, to provide storage-management software.
Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems, according to reports.
Fujitsu announced on Wednesday in the US that it will ship its first hard drive to use perpendicular recording in October -- a 160GB, 2.5-inch drive for laptops.
Fujitsu Technology Solutions, a North American subsidiary of the Japanese computer giant, has signed a deal to use storage products from EMC with its servers.
The company says its server software has now been tested for compatibility with products from firms such as EMC, Siemens, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Storage giant EMC last week unfurled the details behind its deal to work with Samsung to sell systems in the growing Asian market.
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Fujitsu has re-affirmed its commitment to pursue the enterprise storage segment of the market. Backing its announcement that the desktop storage market had reached saturation point earlier this month.
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