Fujitsu Submits Cloud API Specification to DMTF, Joins Board of Open Cloud Standards Incubator

Nov 19, 2009 16:09 Nikkei Electronics Asia

Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced they have submitted their Cloud API Specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and joined the leadership board of the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator.

Fujitsu will actively participate in further standardization work in DMTF and implement this specification on its next-generation IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform, which will be made available in the second half of 2010 in Japan.

Fujitsu's next-gen IaaS platform, Trusted-Service Platform, will provide capabilities that enable customers to create, configure, expand, and delete a user's virtual ICT (Information & Communication Technology) system dynamically in a self-serve manner via the Internet. Operations can be directed either by the actual user through the web browser or by software through a cloud API. Using the cloud API, an adaptive and flexible system can be developed, such as a system which increases or decreases the number of deployed virtual servers corresponding to the system load.
Over the next few years, along with the increasing demand for cloud services, several service providers including Fujitsu will offer IaaS. A standardized cloud API greatly reduces customer dependency on one particular cloud provider thus allowing them to switch to a provider with the optimal service level without the need for changing their applications. The same cloud API is applicable to an enterprise cloud, an enterprise system owned by customers and operated privately using cloud technologies. Customers can choose to run the same application system either on the cloud providers' IaaS or on the customer's own datacenter depending on business requirements such as capital expenditure, operational cost, and compliance.

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