Unlocking tomorrow's cloud: a deep dive into Fujitsu Uvance Hybrid IT services

Understanding the impact of IT complexity on business

Managing IT systems becomes increasingly complex due to the expanding scope and capabilities of cloud across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This complexity negatively impacts (at least) four key areas:

• Cost control: Unmanaged cloud spending can result in significant financial waste. Studies show that 30% of cloud spending is typically wasted, often due to a lack of proper tracking, accountability, and cost oversight.

• Transparency and insight: Hybrid cloud systems often obscure coherent and holistic visibility, making it difficult to understand system performance and security. This results in slow responses to incidents and challenges in identifying root causes.

• Innovation and agility: Complex, multi-domain and multi-technology hybrid cloud environments often slow down innovation. Fragmented data silos, skill shortages, and cumbersome processes can impede agility and business competitiveness.

• Data-driven decision making: Siloed and disconnected data systems obstruct insight and understanding, affecting an organization’s ability to make informed decisions. Poor data quality can undermine trust in those decisions.

Mitigating and managing IT complexity

Cloud economics has moved on considerably from the original “PAYG”, capex vs opex cost-focused advantages. Businesses now move to the cloud seeking rapid scalability, improved agility, and enhanced innovation and productivity, to drive business success.

This is where Fujitsu Uvance Hybrid IT’s new innovative services step in to automate and optimize the processes.

• Streamline cloud costs: Cost will always remain a defining issue for business. Without oversight and control, cloud costs can spiral. Fujitsu’s FinOps services provide comprehensive cost management strategies and solutions, including budget setting, detailed spend analysis and insight, and AI-powered recommendations. Organizations using FinOps can reduce cloud costs by 20-30% and create the critical culture of financial accountability. FinOps services ensure customers get the most out of their clouds through recommendations for cost optimalization, rightsizing, platform portability and security, governance, and policy.

• Enhance visibility: Understanding system behavior across domains and dependencies is critical for improved uptime and improved customer experience. Fujitsu’s Observability services enable greater understanding and insight into a system’s behavior and performance by correlating data across multi-domain logs traces and metrics. Is an application degradation due to load-balancing issues? Or does this degradation occur only across a specific sequence of dependencies (a “span”)? By delivering real-time end-to-end insights, Fujitsu Observability services enable businesses to quickly identify causes and trends, and resolve issues before they impact users. Businesses can reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 50% and improve application uptime by 15% leading to better user experiences.

• Accelerate developer productivity: The diversity of data sources, tools and services that the developer community has to cope with within a hybrid multi-cloud environment is exploding. Fujitsu’s Platform Engineering services use automation to enforce security policy, governance and access control to ensure quality and secure code. Additionally, they focus on enhancing productivity through standardized platforms and reducing the cognitive load on developers so that they can focus on innovation and testing through rapidly developing secure and efficient code.

• Develop deep business insight: The exponential growth of data presents both opportunities and challenges. Fujitsu’s Data Intelligence services enable businesses to identify, capture and leverage data from every touchpoint in their value chain. Democratizing this data amongst business and technical stakeholders and enhancing with AI and analytics enables the broader business community to engage in deeper understanding and developing actionable insight into their business. By maintaining data integrity, companies can build trust in their decision-making processes and foster transparency across the enterprise.

Conclusion

The success of cloud, and its expansion in scope and functionality is invariably accompanied by an expansion in overall management complexity of the hybrid cloud estate. This additional complexity can act as a brake on competitive advantage through reduced availability, higher wasted cost and degraded user, developer, and operator experience. This blog has expanded how Fujitsu's next-generation cloud services play a crucial role in managing and overcoming this complexity.