Symantec Expands Global Footprint with Fujitsu Australia

As part of its aggressive push into the cloud, Symantec has signed a three-year deal with Fujitsu Australia to colocate cloud servers in Fujitsu’s data center in Sydney, adding to its already extensive presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Symantec.cloud already has a co-location agreement in Australia with Equinix, as well as data centers in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. The Fujitsu deal brings the global number of Symantec.cloud data centers to 18.

Symantec, best known for its on-premise security solutions, did not immediately enter the cloud arena. It took time to develop its global cloud strategy, and over the past year has been making concerted efforts to place its traditionally on-premise solutions including Backup Exec into the cloud. In February 2011, the company launched its Symantec.cloud brand. Recent Talkin’ Cloud reporting on Symantec has involved EnPointe, Doyenz, LiveOffice and VMware.

“Under this agreement, we have purchased space to install new servers and associated equipment in a Fujitsu data center, and increased the availability of hosted services to our customers,” said Symantec.cloud Asia-Pacific VP Brenton Smith, in a prepared statement. “This new arrangement has also boosted the resilience of our cloud services infrastructure by enabling us to fail over between the Fujitsu and Equinix data centers as required.”

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