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1 Fujitsu 12.9%
2 Company A 9.0%
3 Company B 8.6%
4 Company C 8.6%
5 Company D 6.5%
6 Others 54.4%
(Source: Gartner, “Market Share: IT Services 2012” 29
March 2013)
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5,000
4,000
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3,389.2 3,306.4
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2009 2011 2012 20132010
(Billions of yen) (%)
GRAPH 1 GRAPH 2 GRAPH 3
Share of 2012 IT Services Market Sales
in Japan (Revenue Basis)
Net Sales* and Operating Income Margin
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2
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5
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(Source: IDC The Worldwide Black Book Q1 2013)
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61.9 65.1 66.1
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2012 2014 2015 20162013
63.0
(Billions of U.S. dollars)
IT Market Forecasts (Japan)
(Years ended March 31)
* Including intersegment sales
Net sales (left scale)
Operating income margin (right scale)
in innovation. In the process, we will work
together with customers to achieve busi-
ness innovation, such as by enhancing
enterprise competitiveness, and social
innovation by addressing social issues.
By leveraging our extensive expertise
in systems construction, we plan to
actively upgrade and expand vertically
integrated products that further unify
and optimize hardware and software.
These offerings constitute high value-
added products that incorporate our
abundant expertise in integration and
operations services.
In other fields, Fujitsu will extend and
enhance new services surrounding cloud
computing. We will dramatically upgrade
our product lineup by revamping our
framework of cloud products and services
as the FUJITSU Cloud Initiative, in support
of customer needs. We will also focus on
bolstering our cloud integration structure,
where we plan to have 100 Cloud Special-
ists and 2,000 Cloud Integrators, with the
view to ensuring that cloud computing is
implemented with optimal efficiency in
various situations.
By leveraging our outstanding ability to
provide a vertically integrated structure—
from highly dependable, high-perfor-
mance platforms such as networks,
servers, and datacenters to top-line
applications—we will lead the domestic
ICT market by proposing new ICT possibili-
ties to customers and do our utmost to
respond to customer expectations.
CUSTOMER SOLUTION PROFILE
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, a Member of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Fujitsu’s Supercomputer Helps to Unravel Cosmic Mysteries
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter
Array (ALMA) is a massive radio telescope
capable of producing astronomical radio wave
images with the world’s highest resolution.
ALMA was built through an international part-
nership among the National Astronomical
Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), a member of the
National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS),
and various countries in North America, Europe
and other regions, on a Chilean plateau at an elevation of 5,000 meters. This radio tele-
scope makes it possible to see the dark regions of the universe that cannot be observed at
optical wavelengths, such as galaxies that were formed shortly after the beginning of the
universe, the birth of stars and planetary systems like our solar system, and matter related
to the origin of life, such as organic molecules.
NAOJ and the Fujitsu Group worked together to develop and begin operations of the Ata-
cama Compact Array (ACA) correlator, a purpose-built supercomputer responsible for process-
ing data from the ACA. The ACA is a small-diameter interferometer system deployed to
improve the quality of images, enabling high-sensitivity observations by ALMA.
Comprised of 35 PRIMERGY x86 servers from Fujitsu and a specialized computational unit,
the ACA Correlator meets the rigorous requirements demanded by the project, including
computational performance capable of performing real-time processing of 512 billion samples
of telescope radio signal data per second at a computational rate of 120 trillion operations per
second, as well as the ability to ensure stable operations under harsh environmental condi-
tions at an altitude of 5,000 meters and pressure of 0.5 atmospheres. The system will be
responsible for processing massive sets of signal data from 16 antennas on its own.
The system is equipped with a host of features that enable speedy and fine-grained
remote operations, including a feature that monitors and records data processing flows at
multiple points within the correlator, as well as a feature that improves fault detection
accuracy by replicating the system’s actual operational status using massive sets of embed-
ded test data. These features enable equipment diagnostics, software upgrades, and other
maintenance tasks to be performed remotely from Japan or the area’s base camp, located at
an altitude of 2,900 meters. This helps to ensure stable system operations at the high
altitude, where it is difficult to dispatch a full-time engineer.
Looking ahead, Fujitsu will continue to support NAOJ’s role in the ALMA project with cutting-
edge technology, with the aim of harnessing ICT to help unravel astronomical mysteries.
Image: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Explanations for underlined words can be found in the glossary on page 147-148. 053
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