Exploring the Future of Fujitsu
The good relationship between Fujitsu’s Dr. Rolf Werner and IOTA’s Dominik Schiener has been well documented over the past year. Let’s explore the IOTA – Fujitsu connection in some more depth.
FactBox: – Corporate Headquarters: Japan – Employees: 155,000 worldwide – Revenue: US$40bn – 78,000 patents worldwide – World’s fifth-largest IT services provider – FORTUNE named Fujitsu as one of ‘the World’s Most Admired Companies‘ for the fifth consecutive year
People realized that Fujitsu might be a big partner of IOTA when its Head of Central Europe, Dr. Rolf Werner, started tweeting and liking #IOTA-tagged posts on Twitter back in 2017. This climaxed at the Fujitsu Forum 2017 in Munich, Germany (November 8 and 9, 2017), when Dr. Werner talked in front of the business’ who’s who about the advantages of the Tangle:
It was no surprise, then, that Fujitsu would take part in the IOTA Data Marketplace. In the meantime, Dr. Werner has become a member of the IOTA Foundation’s supervisory board.
Many people consider Fujitsu’s dedication to be one of many experiments to implement new technology. However, a company like Fujitsu would not promote “yet another crypto coin” at the world’s largest industrial fair (Hannover Messe, Germany) to such an extent, would it? They have gone so far as to produce a full demo for an IOTA-run Industry4.0-factory:
Dr. Werner himself suggested that the implementation of IOTA is not just a deep-future scenario, but that it may happen sooner than people think.
And, of course, we are here those who feel really at home in this context. Because we are not only one of the largest IT providers worldwide but we are also the ones that are the only manufacturer in this country. And so we have a location in Augsburg [Germany] that already has all that is needed for the
