Tag: Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s says sorry for ruining lives of innocent postmasters

Posted on January 17, 2024 by - News

Fujitsu has admitted it has a moral duty to pay up for the hundreds of postmasters it helped to convict on false charges because of its dodgy software.

The postmasters were the victims of the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. It saw some 700 local post office bosses branded as crooks and sent to prison or left penniless.

Some even killed themselves or died before they could clear their names after being accused of theft and fraud based on faulty data from Fujitsu’s Horizon system between 1999 and 2005.

“Fujitsu would like to apologise for our part in this horrific scandal,” Patterson, who joined the firm in 2019, told MPs investigating the outrage, which has sparked fury across the nation.

The Japanese IT giant’s boss, Paul Patterson, said sorry to the victims and said Fujitsu had a duty to pay out.

“We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system and we did help the post office in their witch-hunt of the subpostmasters. For that we are truly sorry.”

The UK government pays out on Fujitsu scandal

Posted on September 19, 2023 by - News

The UK government announced that every postmaster convicted because of Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon IT system will be offered hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.

More than 700 people running small local post offices were found guilty of false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015 because the Horizon system insisted money was missing. The Post Office and Fujitsu made matters worse by not telling anyone that the software was turning up an unlikely number of criminals.

Reports from Computing Magazine at the time found IT workers in the Post Office and Fujitsu who knew the system was borked and had told their managers.

Some owners of local Post Office were imprisoned or left out of pocket after being asked to make up the shortfalls, while others failed to find other jobs and lost their homes.

Fujitsu to shutter European BU Client Computing Devices operations

Posted on August 7, 2023 by - News

Fujitsu is closing its BU Client Computing Devices operations in Europe and will no longer sell PCs, notebooks, workstations and peripherals after April 2024.

The fact that the PC market tanked means is Fujitsu has had enough and is walking away.

Its PC business including peripherals, will be discontinued in Europe from next April, in favour of servers, datacentre technologies, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and data-driven platform services.

Fujitsu has confirmed that maintenance contracts will be fulfilled, and spare parts for clients should still be available five years after the end of operations in April 2024.

Fujitsu opens new centre of European excellence

Posted on July 7, 2023 by - News

Fujitsu has opened a new centre of excellence (CoE) to modernise  its Continental Europe region (CE) powered by CAST software intelligence technology.

The company says the move is a response to the growing demand for accelerated transformation at scale and Fujitsu’s commitment to providing innovative solutions to their customers.

Fujitsu faces no competition on copper contract

Posted on August 24, 2022 by - News

Fujitsu managed to keep mainframe support and maintenance contract for the Police National Computer (PNC) because no one  challenged them.

The contract awarded to the Japanese Giant is worth £48 million and runs from April 2022 to March 2026.

Recently published Home Office procurement documents show this was a single tender action, meaning it is a direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This was done due “to lack of response from market following market engagement”, documents show.

Fujitsu builds a C-CAT in North-West

Posted on June 17, 2022 by - News

Fujitsu is investing  £22 million in a cognitive and advanced technologies (C-CAT) centre in the North West of England.

Fujitsu says the centre will bring “further innovation” to the UK and bring 200 high skilled jobs over the next year.

The company’s global CTO Vivek Mahajan said :”Fujitsu is committed to and has confidence in the UK. We share the UK Government’s ambitions to thrive as a science and technology superpower.

Fujitsu partners with AWS on digital transformation

Posted on May 24, 2022 by - News

Fujitsu is teaming up with AWS to accelerate the “digital transformation” of the finance and retail industries.

Under the move, the Japanese technology giant creates new offerings that are a new part of the FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service which is Fujitsu’s cloud service.

The company says it will use AWS Professional Services to develop and operate new systems as well as modernisation and in-house development of support services for existing systems.

Post Office and Fujitsu victims poles apart on compensation

Posted on May 4, 2022 by - News

The Post Office does not seem to want to pay out much cash in the Fujitsu scandal which saw it fire, bankrupt and give criminal records to its subpostmasters.

For those who came in late,  the Post Office went on a witch hunt of its subpostmasters after its Fujitsu computer incorrectly saw accounting errors where there were none. More than 700 former subpostmasters were convicted of crimes after being blamed for unexplained accounting shortfalls based on evidence from the Post Office’s Horizon retail and accounting system used in branches, which was later proved to be borked.

The Post Office after initially failing to acknowledge that its computer was faulty, now seems to be a little reluctant to pay up, meaning that judicial intervention is “inevitable” as compensation talks are breaking down.

CMS Distribution teams up with Fujitsu

Posted on April 7, 2022 by - News

CMS Distribution has signed a distribution agreement with Fujitsu that covers the full range of technology products, solutions and services.

The partnership with Fujitsu will see CMS Distribution’s partners gain access to Fujitsu’s full suite of tech solutions and enable the Japanese business “to broaden their customer reach”.

CMS Alliance’s Nick Bailey said: “We’re incredibly excited to partner with Fujitsu and be able to offer their business and consumer solutions and support its channel growth with our targeted marketing programmes, technical support and financial services.

Cloud first makes the UK grade

Posted on December 1, 2021 by - News

An Information Services Group report claims that enterprises are increasingly embracing a cloud-first approach to their IT investments.

The “2021 ISG Provider Lens Public Cloud – Services & Solutions Report for the UK” said that enterprises are looking to service providers to help them migrate more of their workloads to the public cloud.

It finds many large UK enterprises interested in hybrid cloud environments, which enable continued use of legacy IT systems, even though an increasing number of companies anticipate a time when they would migrate all of their IT assets to the cloud. Small and medium-sized enterprises, meanwhile, are looking at infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options to replace their depreciated hardware assets.

ISG partner Jan Erik Aase said that the move to the cloud is expected to be the primary driver of IT market growth in the UK in the coming years.

Fujitsu teams up with Amazon on cloudy health

Posted on July 19, 2021 by - News

Fujitsu in the UK has announced its support of the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) by bringing Epic in the Cloud to NHS trusts and UK healthcare providers.

The development means healthcare organisations looking to deploy Epic have the option, for the first time, to run an electronic patient record in the cloud.

By working with Fujitsu and its ecosystem of strategic suppliers, trusts can expect to reduce the cost, minimise the technical risk and minimise clinical and other resources required to deploy, maintain and deliver maximum benefit from their EPR investment.

Fujitsu head of UK healthcare Jamie Whysall said: “We are pleased to support the AWS for Health initiative and to be part of a movement designed to make it easier for health and care organisations to find the right digital partners and the tools they need to address the challenges and opportunities facing them.

Fujitsu invests €3 million in channel

Posted on May 24, 2021 by - News

Fujitsu is putting €3 million into its channel to spruce up its partners’ tools and support.

The outfit wants its Select Partner Programme to deliver more user-friendly tools, improved rebates and better access for its partners.

It said that the enhancements focus on four main areas: data-driven transformation, hybrid cloud, workplace transformation, and infrastructure for SAP environments.

Select partners that focus on those areas will have the opportunity to become recognised as “Fujitsu Champions”. Improved rebates are also on offer for those that deliver against one or more of the strategic areas.

McAfee couples with Fujitsu

Posted on May 5, 2021 by - News

McAfee HQ in Satan ClaraMcAfee inked a multi-year extended partnership agreement, with Fujitsu Client Computing (FCCL) to deliver consumer security stuff to FCCL device users.

McAfee and FCCL’s longstanding partnership makes the integration of the products seamless to end-users allowing them to use McAfee security solutions to protect their digital lives quickly.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, McAfee Labs observed an average of 648 threats per minute, increasing 60 threats per minute (10 percent). The latest McAfee Threats Report: April 2021, which examined cybercriminal activity related to the malware and the evolution of cyber threats in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, found the two quarters saw COVID-19-related cyber-attack detections increase by 240 per cent in the third quarter and 114 percent in the fourth.

Fujitsu signs security deal with Thales

Posted on February 13, 2020 by - News

Fujitsu has inked a deal with Thales to integrate the security firm’s cloud and encryption services into its own portfolio.

Thales’ Cloud Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and Key Management services will be adopted by the Japanese tech firm, with a view to bolstering its public key infrastructure (PKI) based services.

The security company’s Cloud HSM service, Data Protection on Demand, will be used by Fujitsu within its core security infrastructure in order to provide businesses with a more secure key management service.

Fujitsu de-risks move to services for partners

Posted on November 21, 2019 by - News

Fujitsu has taken further steps to de-risk its solutions for those partners that are still adapting their business models.

The firm has been adapting its managed service partner support levels over the last 18 months and says its channel , which has been traditionally been based around selling hardware through a CAPEX model, needed a bit of a hand.

The latest innovation from the vendor is to team up with Cyxtera to provide Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on PRIMERGY as a service, making it possible for a partner to offer collocation services without having to invest in the hardware upfront.