NIFCLOUD Certified Associate case studies
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The NIFCLOUD Certified Associate is an entry-level credential for people who design, deploy, or operate workloads on NIFCLOUD, the cloud platform operated by Fujitsu. It suits system administrators moving from on-premises infrastructure, engineers building their first cloud project, pre-sales and support staff who need working vocabulary across the platform, and developers who consume NIFCLOUD services without owning the infrastructure layer. The NIFCLOUD Certified Associate case studies are 6 cases and about 5,623 words.
1Lift-and-shift assumptions for a mixed workload migration
A regional logistics company operates 18 physical servers across two sites: 6 web/API servers, 4 batch processing servers, 3 internal admin servers, 2 database servers, and 3 legacy file servers. It stores 6 TB of block data, 45 TB of object data such as scanned delivery receipts and photos, and 80 TB of archive data retained for seven years under a compliance policy.
910 words, about 5 min2Right-sizing a web tier after peak-hour latency spikes
An e-commerce team runs 24 virtual servers behind a NIFCLOUD load balancer. Each server has 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM, and all servers sit in one private network subnet.
1,012 words, about 5 min3Tiering 80 TB of media masters and proxies
A media production company stores 80 TB of video masters and 12 TB of low-resolution proxies in NIFCLOUD object storage. Proxies are read daily by editors and served through a CDN; masters are requested about 1% of the time per month, usually with 24 hours' notice, but the legal team requires any master to be retrievable within 4 hours during an active dispute.
915 words, about 5 min4VPN flapping and false load balancer failures
A company runs a two-tier application in NIFCLOUD. The load balancer sits in a public subnet, and six application servers sit in a private subnet inside the 10.0.0.0/16 private network.
944 words, about 5 min5Contractor access and a leaked CI key after an audit
A SaaS company has 15 full-time engineers and 4 external contractors working in one NIFCLOUD account. All engineers use a shared administrator account for production changes, and a single API key is embedded in the CI pipeline to deploy compute and storage resources.
895 words, about 4 min6Untagged test environment and a 40% bill spike
A company's NIFCLOUD monthly bill rose 40% in one month. Finance cannot explain it because resources are not tagged by team or environment.
947 words, about 5 min