Fujitsu is ready to move away from the past, though the company is in no hurry. Both mainframes and Unix systems are being buried at the end of the decade.
By the end of this decade, Fujitsu will stop selling mainframes and Unix systems. Support for existing devices will continue for another five years at that time. By 2035, Fujitsu aims to have washed its hands of the market entirely. The company expects that relevant customers will certainly make the switch to a more modern alternative such as the cloud by then.
Fujitsu already quietly announced the departure on Feb. 14, but it remained under the radar until The Register picked it up. Specifically, sales of mainframes stop in fiscal 2030. Unix servers have to go a year earlier. Sales stop in 2029, which means matching support disappears in 2034.
Hybrid IT
The Japanese technology giant notes that companies that want to remain competitive need to reevaluate their core systems. The future is in the hybrid IT model, the company believes. Legacy, in other words, must disappear.
Clearly Fujitsu is not in a great hurry. Another new model in the GS21 mainframe lineup will appear in 2024, and the Unix server portfolio can also expect refreshments. Fujitsu can still change the roadmap, of course.
Under the new brand name Fujitsu Uvance, the company will bring out its vision of hybrid IT in the future. With Uvance, Fujitsu aims to give customers access to advanced computing power such as HPC through an as-a-Service model.