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2021
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2021
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The annual listing of 10 companies that are at the forefront of providing
Cloud solutions and impacting the APAC industry

Annie Johnson
Annie Johnson
Managing Editor

TOP 10

COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Prime Strategy

CLOUD
SOLUTION PROVIDERS - 2021

Standardizing User Environment
across Multiple Cloud SystemsIn this digital age, integrating cloud capabilities is nolonger a matter of “when” but “how.” It is the mostcritical determinant between a business’s success andfailure. Whether it is infrastructure, software, applications,services, products, or even an operating system, everythingis making its way to the cloud today. But as the adoptionof the cloud accelerates, so do the complexities associatedwith it.
How? Let’s break it down. To make the most of cloudled business innovation, enterprises no longer want to stickto a single cloud service provider; they want to marry theexpertise of Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft, andothers to enact and actualize the true definition of digitalmodernization. This endeavor, however, is easier said
than done. The reason being that multi-cloud management
necessitates a business’s ability to integrate and operate
diverse technology solutions, standards, and service tiers(offered by the different cloud vendors) from a single
place. And businesses, more often than not, find themselvesin a tough spot dealing with such diverse interfaces andenvironments of multi-cloud platforms. Hence, they end uplimiting their multi-cloud advantages over the minimalismof the single cloud system.
But what if they could bring in the level of simplicity
of a single cloud while reaping the benefits of multi-cloudsystems?

Kengyu Nakamura,CEO

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We understandthat this trend is
expected to stay forsome time, so we willcontinue to develop
and offer KUSANAGI
to help our clients
adapt to thechanging businessand technologicalscenarios
KUSANAGI, the ultra-fast content
management system (CMS) execution
environment, offered by Tokyobased Prime Strategy is making thatpossible. “KUSANAGI is available
across 27 major platforms including
Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud,Alibaba Cloud, and IBM Cloud, andin 198 regions across 28 countries,”
shares Kengyu Nakamura, CEO of
Prime Strategy and developer of
KUSANAGI stack. To put simply,
KUSANAGI can be used to provide
the same standardized server
environment across all major cloudservices around the world, accelerating
the implementation of multi-cloudservices and digital transformation forPrime Strategy’s clients.
However, Nakamura notes thatfor a successful multi-cloud system
integration like that, it is very
important to be able to manage alltechnical elements (OS, middleware,and applications) in the servers—aseemingly difficult task for a singlecloud solution provider to do in a
multi-cloud environment. “We handle
this problem using KUSANAGI
Cloud and KUSANAGI’s centralizedmanagementsystem,”statesNakamura. KUSANAGI Cloud not
only manages the servers on multiple
clouds, but by using strategic AI toanalyze and monitor system data via
secure shell (SSH) connections, italso reports and provides automatedmaintenance (hyper-automation). “Ina way, this integration of AI with theKUSANAGI Cloud is not just helping
businesses modernize or virtualize
their IT infrastructure, it is aiding
businesses to delegate more work toAI—much like an extension of themanual workforce—to make criticaldecisions,” shares Hidenori Ishikawa,lead manager of product developmentat Prime Strategy, highlighting theunique facet of their KUSANAGIoffering.
Many Problems, One Solution
KUSANAGI’s benefits are madeavailable to Prime Strategy’s clients
via KUSANAGI managed services.
General clients (users) can purchasethe licenses from the cloud platformor purchase upgraded licenses fromKUSANAGI Marketplace, which isoperated by Prime Strategy. “Someof the companies even use ourKUSANAGI technology to offer
their business services to clients. We
have partnership contracts with suchcompanies and are working together
to expand each other’s business. A
win-win situation for all,” shares
Chieko Aiahra.
“And since the use of cloud services
is improved by this partnership, evencloud operators benefit from the rising

adoption of KUSANAGI,” points out
Nakamura. “The bottom line is that
we strongly believe in expandingthis enterprise open-source software(OSS) ecosystem, KUSANAGI, toAsia and the world so that it can help
international brands reap the bestof cloud solution marketplaces andplatforms.”
In essence, the KUSANAGI stackhelps in solving many problems.
KUSANAGI reduces opportunity loss
and system failures due to heavy accessand optimizes server and operationalcosts by reducing hardware. But morethan that, going the extra mile, Prime
Strategy also ensures system security
by regularly evaluating the latest trends
and developments in the industry. Allof these advantages of KUSANAGI
are further bolstered by anotherPrime Strategy offering, a high-speed
rendering engine “WEXAL Page
Speed Technology” (patent-pending),
which improves clients’ core webvitals, Google score, and overall
user experience. Prime Strategy has
numerous instances where the useof WEXAL improved the score ofGoogle PageSpeed Insights from 2030 points to 60-70 points, sometimes
improving the number of sessions by
130 percent.
The combination of KUSANAGIand WEXAL Page Speed Technology
is definitely becoming a boon forbusinesses to increase browsing
rates, webpage views, and leads forgenerating higher client profits. Inaddition to the many benefits these21 October, 2021

solutions are already providing, Prime
Strategy is always working closelywith its clients to better understandtheir work process and take theoperational efficacy one notch higher.
Under the Hood of KUSANAGI’s
ExcellenceWith a strong customer-centricmindset, Prime Strategy goes aboveand beyond when it comes to assistingclients in their operations. On one
occasion, Bridgestone—a Japanesemultinational auto and truck parts
producer—realized that their image
as a premium racing tire manufacturerwas turning many regular customers
away from the brand. To break thisstatus quo, Bridgestone partneredwith Prime Strategy to create an
active and close communication linkwith motorcyclists. Prime Strategy
proposed that they would handle theweb system, and a different partnercompany would produce the content,
allowing various companies withrespective strengths to contribute tocollective success. Once the proposal
was approved, Prime Strategy used its
KUSANAGI Official Support Service
to leverage Bridgestone’s existing
content management environment on
WordPress and host a new website,
Moto-Bridge—thecommunitytouchpointfor
Bridgestone’smotorcyclists. Needless to say, thewebsite soon became a massive
success for Bridgestone. The company
started witnessing large traction
from retail locations with increased
awareness among motorcyclists. At
present, Bridgestone is using thiswebsite to not only target motorcycle
buyers but also reach out to carbuyers.
This is but one of the numerous
success stories that Prime Strategy
has been scripting over the years.
Highlighting more of its problemsolving attitude, Prime Strategy’s

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zeal to brave through the pandemic
storm and support its clients to stayafloat amid the ‘new normal’ is also
noteworthy. With the COVID-19
pandemic hitting last year, remote
working attained massive popularity,
and as a consequence, digitaltransformations across several sectors
were accelerated. Prime Strategy
was quick to help the global business
community regain lost opportunities.
“We understand that this trend isexpected to stay for some time, so
we will continue to develop andoffer KUSANAGI to help our clients
adapt to the changing business andtechnological scenarios,” elaborates
Nakamura.

Based on this, Prime Strategy isalso planning to roll out a management
system for the C-suite that integrates
multiple business cloud systems andaggregates, analyzes, and visualizes
critical business data. At the sametime, the company is working
toward orchestrating a remotecontrol technology—similar to Web
RPA and AI-driven business process
automation—within the management
system. Through this offering,
information pertaining to different
departments such as accounting,sales, projects, and labor can be stored
and viewed from a single real-time
dashboard called the Management
Dashboard. The platform will also

The combination of KUSANAGI andWEXAL Page Speed Technology
is definitely becoming a boon forbusinesses to increase browsing
rates, webpage views, and leads
for generating higher client profits
Illuminating the Path to theFuture
The company envisions developing anenterprise OSS ecosystem to bridge
the gap between user expectationsand vendor reality in the modernday IT industry. The firm also aims
to accelerate the development andprovisions of KUSANAGI andaccelerate the evolution of products
and services based on KUSANAGI
Stack and KUSANAGI Cloud. TheKUSANAGI Cloud will soon beavailable to the public as KUSANAGI
Cloud Enterprise Version (tentativename).

house an AI-based recruitment system
for automatically sourcing candidate
data and shortlisting the most relevant
candidates for specific job roles.
This would, in turn, accelerate therecruitment process and improve theaccuracy of procedures amid such
tumultuous times. Moving forward,
Prime Strategy aims to develop
and provide KUSANAGI managed
services with more sophisticatedhyper-automation and improve various
social issues that are even beyond theweb. According to the leadership teamof Prime Strategy, the future shinesbright for the company, the cloud, andthe AI ecosystem as a whole.