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Amdahl Software's Storage Product Awarded U.S. Patent
Fujitsu wins an exclusive SDH supply contract with BT
Fujitsu Network Communications Chalks-up Another Success with Penn Telecom
Fujitsu and SAP Sign Global Technology Partner Agreement
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Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. Names Shigeru Fujii Senior Vice President, System Solutions Group (Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. - San Jose, US) |
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Ryusuke Hoshikawa, president and CEO of Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. (FMI), named Shigeru Fujii senior vice president of FMI's Systems Solutions Group.
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Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. Names Charles W. Faust Senior
Vice President of Finance & Administration, CFO (Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. - San Jose, US) |
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Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. (FMI), a leader in advanced IC technology, promoted Charles W. Faust to Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration/CFO. Faust, who has been FMI's VP of Finance and Administration/CFO for the past 2 years, reports directly to FMI President and Chairman Ryusuke Hoshikawa. >
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INTERNET, SERVICES & SOFTWARE
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Amdahl Software's Storage Product Awarded U.S. Patent (Amdahl - Sunnyvale, US) |
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Amdahl Software announced that its industry leading data migration and replication storage management product, TDMF software, has been awarded a U.S. patent.
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Fujitsu and SAP Sign Global Technology Partner Agreement (Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, Japan) |
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Fujitsu Limited announced that it has entered into a Global Technology Partner Agreement with SAP AG (Walldorf, Germany) to supportSAP's leading e-business platform, mySAP.com, and its various cross-industry and industry solutions. mySAP.com Global Partner-Technology status is awarded to only a few platform vendor companies whom SAP regards as capable of supporting mySAP.com globally and who also fulfill SAP's strict criteria for Global Partners.
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Teamware Office-Pl@za Integration Enables Genuinely Interactive Extranet Solution (TeamWARE - Helsinki, Finland) |
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Teamware Group, a Fujitsu subsidiary, launches the Teamware Office-Pl@za Integration, a complete, modular set of groupware applications complemented with Internet services enabling easy access to third generation interactive Web sites. The Integration provides Teamware customers a genuinely interactive extranet solution, which makes it possible to access intranet services over the Internet.
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KnowledgePool helps develop employees at GlaxoSmithKline (KnowledgePool - London, UK) |
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Employees worldwide at GlaxoSmithKline - one of the world' s leading healthcare companies - are set to benefit from a new web- based employee development programme named the Personal Growth Centre. The centre has been designed, developed and implemented
by KnowledgePool, the IT, personal and business skills training company.
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High availability infrastructure based on brand new PRIMEPOWER and PRIMERGY servers as well as Enterprise Storage solutions (Fujitsu Siemens Computers - Munich, Germany) |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been chosen by the Belgian company "2Ci" as the preferred supplier of its IT infrastructure. 2Ci is the first Belgian Application Service Provider (ASP) to offer a global management service for SME (Small Medium Enterprises) IT infrastructures. The infrastructure supplied by Fujitsu Siemens Computers is based on two PRIMEPOWER servers based on a SPARC architecture operating under UNIX Solaris as well as eight Intel- based PRIMERGY servers and includes Microsoft 'Terminal Server'
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Fujitsu Introduces New Hard Disk Drives for OEM Market (Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, Japan) |
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Fujitsu Limited introduced three new 3.5-inch magnetic disk drive models in its MAN3xxx Series for large enterprise systems, and four new 2.5-inch hard disk drives in its MHN2xxxAT Series for notebook PCs and other portable equipment.
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Fujitsu wins an exclusive SDH supply contract with BT (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe - Birmingham, UK) |
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Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited, the leading supplier of high performance telecommunications solutions, has been awarded an exclusive contract - against heavy competition - to supply its FBX-Access Multi-Service Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) range of equipment to British Telecommunications plc (BT), for deployment across the operator's UK network.
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Fujitsu Network Communications Chalks-up Another Success with
Penn Telecom (Fujitsu Network Communications - Richardson, US) |
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Fujitsu Network Communications (FNC), announced that Penn Telecom,
Inc. maximized more than 300 miles of fiber optic cable through
new and upgraded SONET facilities that feature the FLASH600 ADX.
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| RETAIL/FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
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Fujitsu-ICL promotes Tony Scangarello to ATM network
relationship manager (Fujitsu-ICL Systems Inc. - La Jolla, US) |
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Fujitsu-ICL Systems Inc. announced the promotion of Tony Scangarello to relationship manager for ATM networks. In his new position, Scangarello is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with companies providing shared financial networks for the automated-teller machine (ATM) market such as ACI Worldwide and Metavante as well as ATM software developers and other third party entities. He also is responsible for increasing Fujitsu's presence in the ATM/electronic funds transfer industry.
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Fujitsu Weekly Update is produced by the Global PR Team at Fujitsu
Limited in Tokyo, Japan as an informational service for media,
analysts and investors who follow the Fujitsu Group.
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-
based information technology solutions for the global marketplace.
Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide --
including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated
revenues of 5.26 trillion yen (US$49.6 billion) in the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies,
world- class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global
corps of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely
positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet
to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has
188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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