Fujitsu UK is to cut 1,800 jobs early next year as it looks to remain competitive with international rivals

Fujitsu UK is to cut 1,800 jobs early next year as it looks to remain competitive with international rivals
Japanese firm's share price up on news of the latest sell-off plan
The IT services firm will provide core global connectivity services for the next five years
Leveraging past success into other parts of the region says Fujitsu
Deal comes after news of a possible strike by Fujitsu workers in Northern Ireland
The Japanese firm has just posted a poor set of annual results
Fujitsu, Logicalis, Redcentric and Serco are already signed up and wifi provider has launched a new partner programme to increase the number of resellers and MSPs
Restructuring costs were blamed for the profits gloom
Ministry of Defence wants to make savings of over £1bn
ETERNUS sales through channel partners are said to be up 90 percent already on last year
Hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, and integration with Yammer on offer
Hyper-converged market targeted and a new entry level flash solution to boot
City College Coventry hosts the Innovation Hub
Mainframe has to be maintained as assurer seeks new technologies
The food distributor recently moved to a hosted cloud infrastructure
Memset’s hosting infrastructure is built entirely on open source software
The companies have worked together to produce a special microsite and focused marketing materials explaining the benefits of using Fujitsu
Smith has joined an expanding Fujitsu enterprise channel from Computacenter, where he was a director of HP alliances for the last two years
Benefits for both companies as customer bases combine to reap benefits of HPC
Virtualisation, servers, data centres - modern memory markets are made of this
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Invitation-only tier will open up to UK partners next year
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