K5 is a key component of Fujitsu's MetaArc Digital Platform. It offers a comprehensive suite of technologies designed to enable organizations to develop and deploy new cloud-native applications, or "Fast IT." At the same time, K5 allows customers to leverage the value of their existing infrastructure, or "Robust IT," through seamless and consistent integration with new cloud applications.
As a result, Fujitsu enables organizations to capture the value of their legacy systems while modernizing their IT environments. Customers can leverage K5's powerful capabilities in application integration and development, as well as MetaArc's extensive capabilities for multi-cloud deployment and automated management.
The MetaArc platform enables rapid application development. This creates new value by digitizing existing IT services within companies, achieving fast and efficient integration into hybrid IT environments. Accelerated release cycles allow organizations to test faster and bring new services to market, or, if they fail, start over without delay. Thanks to K5's open architecture and MetaArc's ability to run and manage workloads on any chosen platform, new systems can operate in both the public cloud and on-premises environments.
The integration of UForge technology, resulting from Fujitsu's recent acquisition of USharesoft, into K5 facilitates application deployment and automated migration, supporting all leading cloud platforms, both on-premises and off-premises, not just Fujitsu's cloud services. This functionality has enabled a K5 pilot program at one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, achieving a 30% improvement in a mission-critical billing application.
By opting for an open-source architecture like K5, Fujitsu offers previously unattainable cost efficiencies and opens the door to a lower total cost of ownership. K5 means that businesses can significantly reduce vendor lock-in, thanks to the underlying OpenStack architecture. The K5 service is also backed by robust service-level agreements (SLAs) measured from the moment an incident occurs—another feature that sets K5 apart from other cloud services.
It is available in four delivery models: public cloud, hosted virtual private cloud, dedicated cloud, and dedicated on-premises cloud. All offer 99.99% availability, with true enterprise-level SLAs and support necessary for deploying mission-critical systems from the cloud.
Fujitsu is already transforming its own IT, integrating traditional services with new systems for a rapid return on investment, and is migrating more than 600 business systems and 13,000 servers to K5.
