Posts from Frazer McKenzie

3 Tools Everyone in the Telco-Cloud Industry Should Be Using

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Cloud Orchestration

If you are a telco in the cloud space or trying to get in it and make a big difference quick, here are three tools you need in your arsenal.

  1. Mature Cloud Management – If you are developing your own cloud management tool or experimenting with OpenStack to get a commercial offer to market – stop what you are doing! You are going to waste valuable time and money and in the meantime, your competitors are going to take over the market. Consider that globally a new telco service is now launched every working day of the year according to Ovum. If you wait, you’ll lose money – and that is a certainty. Don’t gamble on your cloud management tool. Instead, select a mature, well-tested and scalable solution.

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Telecom Operators: Your Customers are Confused

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Telecom Operator

A study of 500 US and UK small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) showed that while there is a strong demand for cloud computing services, the buying decisions are delayed by confusion over which services will best suit their needs.
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Caravan Aero to Reduce Cost of Business by 25 % with Flexiant and Odin

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Caravan Aero

Russian service provider, Caravan Aero, the subsidiary of Caravan Telecom, announced the launch of its new service virtual data center, or VDC. Caravan Aero customers can rent a set of virtual resources and create any complex IT-infrastructure based on them. Deployed in a matter of minutes, it will be similar to the physical servers. Caravan Aero will reduce its customers’ operating costs by at least 25%. 
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The Telecom Transformation into Cloud

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Telecom Operator

Transformation can be a challenge for many telecom operators. While once a historically slow process, now time is of the essence to deliver a valuable cloud offer. For a telecom operator to transition to the cloud is not just about getting there, but about doing it quickly and achieving operational, cost and energy efficiencies.
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A Telecom Operator’s Checklist to the Cloud

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Telecom Operator

Declining revenues, economic challenges, technology transformation and price competition are all contributors to the rapidly changing telecom industry alongside the evolving requirements of customers. As telecom operators look to transform to overcome these challenges, the cloud has become ever more important. The cloud enables telecoms to support businesses and consumers in our anywhere, anytime culture. It also enables them to reinvent their business and their role in this technology transformation. Support for digital services, the Internet of Things (IoT), next generation services and even Over The Top (OTT) cloud services are major opportunities for telecoms.
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