OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand today announced its third consecutive year of growth as it reaps the rewards of its early investment in cloud capability and data centre infrastructure. Significant new account wins have also contributed to an accelerated growth of 5.8 percent, outperforming the average growth for the ICT industry in ANZ by more than double.

Mike Foster, Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand said: “Our strategy was to invest early in cloud and data centre infrastructure and this commitment has paid off. Over the last 12 months we have signed a significant number of Enterprise deals, growing our top and bottom line for the third year running and outperforming the market.

“We attribute our success to our ability to migrate customers’ environments into our mature cloud platform, the flexibility in our offerings and our ability to retain data onshore if required.

“Fujitsu remains focussed on further growth with continued investment in cloud, end-user computing and mobility both at the application and infrastructure level,” Foster said.

Early investments in cloud and data centre pay off New cloud customers including Asciano, CBA, Freehills, Grocon, Perpetual and WA Health have all contributed to the milestone first petabyte of data now committed to customers in the Fujitsu cloud.

From the launch of its cloud services in 2010, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand has to date completed a total data centre infrastructure spend of approximately USD 170 million, USD 60 million of which was spent in 2012 on the Noble Park facility in Victoria.

Fujitsu is also able to leverage its Japanese parent’s global delivery capability to meet local customer needs. Australia’s local data centre footprint is linked to Fujitsu’s global network of more than 100 facilities around the world. Fujitsu has also made significant investments in its Global WAN, enabling greater leverage of its global data centre footprint.