Fujitsu Announces Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Accreditation and New Capability for Migration of Legacy UNIX Applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Announcement posted by Fujitsu Australia Limited 06 Jun 2013
Fujitsu Announces Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Accreditation and New Capability for Migration of Legacy UNIX Applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Sydney – 6 June 2013 – Fujitsu today announces it has been accredited as a Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider in Australia and New Zealand. This extension of Fujitsu’s ongoing technology collaboration with Red Hat means enterprise customers can now more easily migrate their legacy UNIX applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Fujitsu’s mature cloud platform, which is hosted in Australian data centres.
John Kaleski, General Manager Cloud at Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand said, “We have a proven and highly successful, long-term partnership with Red Hat in this region. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an effective platform for running applications in the cloud, with its broad base of developers and extensive ecosystem of certified applications that allow for flexibility, portability and scalability.”
Fujitsu and Red Hat have also developed a new capability to provide migration services from legacy UNIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a number of platforms, including the Fujitsu Cloud. The partnership enables enterprises to migrate some or all of their traditional UNIX applications from expensive UNIX-based hardware and operating systems and move to more readily available and lower cost x86 hardware architectures running Red Hat Enterprise Linux either in the client’s own data centre, the cloud or Fujitsu’s data centres as a managed service.
Max McLaren, Regional Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Australia and New Zealand, said “We welcome Fujitsu to our growing ecosystem of certified partners. The combination of proven Red Hat Enterprise Linux and enterprise-class support from Fujitsu's Cloud Services offers Australian and New Zealand customers a powerful infrastructure for the cloud. We look forward to working with Fujitsu to address the requirements of the many organisations that would benefit from moving their legacy UNIX environments to a more cost-effective, contemporary and strongly supported operating system.”
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