{"id":540,"date":"2013-03-03T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exorientelux.biz\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=540"},"modified":"2013-03-03T00:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:37:36","slug":"cloud-computing-savior-of-the-telecom-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Savior of the Telecom Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Computing (IaaS\/PaaS\/SaaS) services offered by Telco carriers are gaining momentum. <\/p>\n<p>An excellent overview &#8211; from 2011 &#8211; is provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpmg.com\/BE\/en\/IssuesAndInsights\/ArticlesPublications\/Documents\/Telcos-advancer-in-cloud-computing.pdf\">KPMG&#8217;s &#8222;Telcos advance in cloud computing&#8220;<\/a>. The following table is borrowed from this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exorientelux.biz\/cgi-data\/weblog_basic\/uploads\/2013\/03\/screenshot-from-2013-03-03-001755.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/5697053.de.strato-hosting.eu\/cgi-data\/weblog_basic\/uploads\/2013\/03\/screenshot-from-2013-03-03-001755.png\" alt=\"kpmg-telco-cloud-offers\" title=\"kpmg-telco-cloud-offers\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some of these offerings materialized \/ matured and several others were added. Here is a list of a few very prominent ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infrastructure-as-a-Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Telef\u00f3nica<\/strong> invests in Joyent and runs an Infrastructure-as-a-Cloud (IaaS) service, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.telefonica.com\/instantservers\/product-overview.html\">Telefonica Instant Servers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>NTT<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntt.com\/bhec_e\/\"> Communications Enterprise Cloud<\/a> runs a virtualized Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, with the availability of data centers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.att.com\/enterprise\/Family\/cloud\/computing\/\"><strong>AT&#038;T<\/strong> Synaptic Compute<\/a> as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service is a pay-as-you-go cloud computing solution that lets you access virtualized servers in the AT&#038;T cloud. AT&#038;T was positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (December, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonenterprise.com\/cloud\/services-computing.xml\">Cloud Computing Services<\/a> by <strong>Verizon Terremark<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Deutsche Telekom<\/strong> maintains a significant share in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimory.de\/\">Zimory<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portugal Telecom<\/strong> launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcloudpt.pt\/\">Smart Cloud<\/a> service<\/li>\n<li><strong>AT&#038;T<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\">OpenStack<\/a> platinum sponsor and member of the Board of Directors<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisscom.ch\">Swisscom<\/a><\/strong> become major investor in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistoncloud.com\/\">Piston Cloud<\/a>, an OpenStack Enterprise provider<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Platform-as-a-Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nodejitsu.com\/\">Nodejitsu<\/a>, provider of the state of the art node.js-based Platform-as-a-Service, and <strong>Telef\u00f3nica Digital<\/strong>, the digital innovation unit of telecom giant Telef\u00f3nica, have announced a partnership to deliver Nodejitsu\u2019s hosting to the European market using Telef\u00f3nica\u2019s data centers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NTT<\/strong> is developing platform-as-a-service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntt-review.jp\/archive\/ntttechnical.php?contents=ntr201212fa2.html\">(PaaS) software based on Cloud Foundry<\/a>, which is a cloud-computing-based open source software PaaS (open PaaS).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synaptic.att.com\/clouduser\/html\/productdetail\/Platform_as_a_Service.htm\"><strong>AT&#038;T<\/strong> Platform as a Service<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/att.platformatyourservice.com\/wiki\/Application_Designer\">complete application development and lifecycle management platform<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Computing (IaaS\/PaaS\/SaaS) services offered by Telco carriers are gaining momentum. An excellent overview &#8211; from 2011 &#8211; is provided by KPMG&#8217;s &#8222;Telcos advance in cloud computing&#8220;. The following table is borrowed from this report. Meanwhile, some of these offerings materialized \/ matured and several others were added. 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