Cloudy with a chance of flexibility by Paula Bernier

Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 22 2009) Cloud Computing

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   Cloud-based services, which can offer benefits in terms of energy efficiency and lowering energy consumption, are poised to make some exciting advances in terms of standardization, management and what I’ll refer to as mobility.

   For example, Fujitsu says its IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform will enable customers to create, configure, expand, and delete their information and communication technology via the Internet via either a Web browser or by software through a cloud API. 

   Perhaps more important, however, is that by standardizing the cloud API, which Fujitsu aims to do through its work with the Distributed Management Task Force, could greatly reduce customer dependency on one particular cloud provider. That means customers could potentially switch cloud providers without having to change their applications. 

   "With cloud interoperability, customers can freely choose the most suitable cloud services from public cloud service vendors or decide to develop their own cloud infrastructures on their premises,” Chiseki Sagawa, president of the service-oriented platform strategy and development office for Fujitsu Ltd., which in Japan rolled out SaaS in February 2008, unified datacenter services in April 2009 and enterprise cloud platform products last month.

   
   

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