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apan-based Fujitsu is vying for a chunk of the cloud computing market both in Indonesia and worldwide in the coming years, according to the company’s regional head.

The policy, according to Fujitsu’s ASEAN CEO, Lawrence Wee, has been triggered by the growing demand for more sophisticated and efficient business solutions in terms of communication and information technology.

“Cloud-related services will account for 30 percent of our new business by 2015. In anticipation, we are accelerating the shift in the structure of our business,” he said in Yogyakarta over the weekend.

He said the company’s commitment to the cloud computing business was underpinned by its investment of over US$1 billion in 2010 and $1.2 billion in 2011 to develop its global cloud capability.

This, he said, excluded another 5,000 staff globally that were assigned to cloud services in research and development, customer trials and cloud delivery. “In ASEAN, $40 million of investment has been committed to develop our cloud services here,” Wee said.

Fujitsu Indonesia president director Achmad S. Sofwan said that in Indonesia, Fujitsu’s cloud approach had gained trust from the Technology Assessment and Application Agency (BPPT) in October this year to serve its needs for both external and internal IT.

The project, he said, was 80 percent complete and was expected to be finished by the beginning of next year.

He added that Fujitsu offered three cloud-computing solutions: namely, the Fujitsu global cloud platform, local cloud platform and cloud professional services.

Fujitsu’s global cloud platform is a global standard for infrastructure, which consists of a large pool of virtual resources providing a virtual platform environment, which could be customized to customers’ needs.

Local cloud platform is an “infrastructure-as-service” solution for SAP customers, while cloud professional services help users harness cloud with an individual roadmap to cloud adoption.

“The three are available to bring cloud computing into reality, which is defined as a technological or business process delivered as a service in a way that is elastic and scalable, payable per use and self-service,” Achmad said.