A new line of middleware products that are compatible with the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform(1) public cloud service and Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform (FGCP/A5) Powered by Windows Azure, starting today, announced the development and worldwide availability by Fujitsu.
Windows Azure and SQL Azure help developers build, host and scale applications through Microsoft datacenters. You can use the following developer services to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios. They require no up-front expenses, no long term commitment, and enable you to pay only for the resources you use.
Compute
Database
Virtual Machines
Storage
Content Delivery Network
Caching
Virtual Network
Service Bus
Access Control
Business Intelligence
MarketPlace
The new line of products delivers runtime environments for Java and COBOL, two application programming languages that are commonly employed in building mission-critical systems, in addition to providing functionality enabling central monitoring between on-premise systems and the Windows Azure Platform. This, in turn, enables enterprise customers to expand the use case scenarios for applications and to take the same applications developed for their highly reliable, on-premise mission-critical systems and run them on the Windows Azure Platform.
In addition, the new products will also be available from the Windows Azure Marketplace(2) and will play an important role in expanding Fujitsu's middleware business on a global scale.