I’m packing my bags to return home, having spent the past week in Japan at a private show hosted by our new partners at NetOne Systems. Attendance was excellent and the event was very impressive, even having its own tradeshow floor featuring dozens of booths complete with fully operational demonstration equipment, including an IBM mainframe.  Our sessions for press interviews and customer demonstrations or AppLogic were packed to standing room only thanks to the excellent organization and customer relations of NetOne. Xseed, the first Japanese service provider to begin offering commercial AppLogic services, used the event as a venue for making their service announcement as well. If you read Japanese, you can see some of the press coverage on Atmarkit.

More than two years ago, when we first came out of stealth mode, some of our first inquiries came from Japan. Unfortunately, at that time we weren’t ready to service customers here. My visit with customers this week has shown that the Japanese market is ready to embrace cloud technology. They respond to the efficiency, the scalability and the energy savings. And today, in conjunction with NetOne, 3tera can provide the service needed. Cloud computing is on the horizon in the land of the rising sun.