Fujitsu Limited and VMware have revealed plans to collaborate to help provide customers with flexible and secure cloud technologies.
As part of the expanded partnership, Fujitsu and VMware have agreed to establish project teams to conduct marketing and sales support activities for the global expansion of Fujitsu Cloud Service K5 and its managed infrastructure virtual desktop service V-DaaS.
Fujitsu and VMware plan to collaborate to expand V-DaaS globally, starting in the ASEAN region. The companies also plan to work together to optimize VMware technologies for K5.
In addition, both companies plan to work together to expand the PaaS capabilities of K5 by leveraging VMware vSphere Integrated Containers to ease the development and distribution of cloud-native applications.
Fujitsu will provide a secure solution by leveraging VMware Horizon and the VMware NSX network virtualization platform and Fujitsu's original palm vein authentication system.
Additionally, Fujitsu plans to deploy the solution to 80,000 employees at Fujitsu and its subsidiaries in Japan to improve the service level of V-DaaS and FENICS II Mobile Management with AirWatch by VMware, a smart-device management service.