Fujitsu Strengthens Integrated Operations Management Solutions that Connect Products and Services

Fujitsu
Strengthens Integrated Operations Management Solutions that Connect Products
and Services

Offering advanced visualization and automation through an alliance with
UBiqube

TOKYO, Apr
24, 2017 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu today announced that it has entered
into a business and capital alliance with UBiqube PLC, a Dublin, Ireland-based
developer of orchestration software products. The alliance seeks to strengthen
integrated operations management solutions connecting products and services
offered to customers who are telecom operators, corporations, and local
governments operating and managing large-scale networks.

UBiqube’s software features numerous flexible
application programming interfaces (APIs) to rapidly provide advanced
visualization of network data and status, as well as automation of service
operations and management.

Through this alliance, Fujitsu will strengthen
its ability to quickly provide integrated operations and management solutions
that connect products and services, utilizing UBiqube’s product as the
framework for the Fujitsu Network Virtuora series, Fujitsu’s virtualized
operations and management solution. In this way, Fujitsu will contribute to the
provision of strategic services by customers and to reducing their deployment
and operations costs.

1. Background

Network complexity is growing along with the implementation
of new Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization
(NFV) technologies, and development of new services such as the cloud, managed
security and IoT. Customers are facing issues associated with managing numerous
physical devices or virtualized resources in multi-vendor environments. With
the advance of IoT services going forward, network operations will become even
more complicated, such as requiring appropriate threat prevention across the
entire network infrastructure. In order to optimally manage a network that
changes day by day, there is a need for integrated operations that encompass
datacenters to WANs and devices to be integrated, and for them to be rapidly
and automatically controlled.

2. Aims and Effects of the Alliance

Fujitsu is providing software products and
solutions focused on SDN and NFV based on Virtuora series concepts, working to
visualize and automate networks and services. By incorporating UBiqube’s
software into Virtuora, Fujitsu is strengthening its framework in order to
rapidly and flexibly develop a variety of applications. By using this framework
to develop different applications, such as security operations and
virtualization operations, Fujitsu is quickly realizing new and stronger
solutions that meet customers’ needs, such as automating the development of
services with network and security infrastructure in multi-vendor environments,
and providing new value to customers.

Beginning in April 2017, Fujitsu plans to sell
UBiqube’s MSActivator product as a software package under the name
“Virtuora SA powered by UBiqube.”

Fujitsu aims to achieve 100 billion yen in
revenue over the next five years from the sale of related software and solution
packages, as well as in network integration and managed services.

3. Value Offered to Customers

As customers develop new services, and as their
businesses evolve, their network operations also change day by day. By
immediately tracking those changes (strengthening agility in network
operations), customers can enhance the competitiveness of their businesses. By
meeting the network operations needs of customers, Fujitsu is strongly
supporting their digital transformations.

Security Business Case Study

When a company undergoes an organizational
change, people are transferred, or companies are split up or merged, policy
changes for a variety of related security equipment becomes necessary.
Previously, because each organization operated on respective networked devices,
operating costs increased in accordance with the scale of the changes, and
there was a possibility that errors would occur. With this solution, companies
can have unified operations across organizations and related companies, and by
automating policy setting tasks, costs can be significantly reduced regardless
of the scale of the changes.

Comment from Nabil Souli, CEO, UBiqube

As one of the greatest global IT integrators and
technology provider, Fujitsu represents a fantastic strategic partner for
UBiqube and will significantly accelerate the market penetration of our cutting
edge Orchestration Software. This partnership will be instrumental in
furthering the innovation pace in the network and security industry which is
undergoing a massive paradigm change as virtualization becomes the de facto standard
and as integration with IoT and M2M emerges. As Telcos and enterprises alike
seek to ease and automate their management of these rapidly changing and
heterogeneous technologies, I believe they will appreciate the agility by
design of the MSActivator combined with the Fujitsu Virtuora portfolio as well
as the industry recognized integration and support capabilities Fujitsu is
famous for.