Comments on: Telecom Companies: The Cloud Clock is Ticking! http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/03/03/telecom-companies-the-cloud-clock-is-ticking/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:28:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Song Bac Toh http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/03/03/telecom-companies-the-cloud-clock-is-ticking/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Song Bac Toh Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:59:16 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/?p=94#comment-291 The cloud space continues to see a lot of activities, including Amazon Web Services running their annual world tour and IBM touting their Cloudburst. The telecom offerings can be very interesting for someone looking to reduce infrastructure cost and shift from most of project expenses from capex to opex. However, going with a single cloud (or virtualization) vendor may lock you into a position with little leverage. I think CIOs owe it to themselves to consider a neutral provisioning and self-service server provisioning layer as they move towards the cloud or virtualization. Service Catalog is one such solution and was cited as an interface between VM consumers and producers in the recent VMWare webcast on "When Virtualization Meets Cloud Computing". While I work for a company that provides such a solution (http://www.newscale.com/vdc), it is not the only one out there. The key is that Data Centers do need to consider a platform neutral management solution. The cloud space continues to see a lot of activities, including Amazon Web Services running their annual world tour and IBM touting their Cloudburst.

The telecom offerings can be very interesting for someone looking to reduce infrastructure cost and shift from most of project expenses from capex to opex. However, going with a single cloud (or virtualization) vendor may lock you into a position with little leverage.

I think CIOs owe it to themselves to consider a neutral provisioning and self-service server provisioning layer as they move towards the cloud or virtualization. Service Catalog is one such solution and was cited as an interface between VM consumers and producers in the recent VMWare webcast on “When Virtualization Meets Cloud Computing”. While I work for a company that provides such a solution (http://www.newscale.com/vdc), it is not the only one out there. The key is that Data Centers do need to consider a platform neutral management solution.

]]> By: Misha Nossik http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/03/03/telecom-companies-the-cloud-clock-is-ticking/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Misha Nossik Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:11:19 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/?p=94#comment-184 There is a huge opportunity for carriers to disrupt the PC business by delivering virtual personal computing as a telco-based consumer service. Broadband service providers can become a channel for the software vendors. The basic elements are there: - broadband is fast enough to carry the remote display rendering protocol and deliver good-enough user experience - end devices in the formfactor of netbooks are cheap and attractive enough to become stateless clients for the cloud services delivery - servers are powerful enough and virtualization-enabled to host Virtual Desktops and Applications with high enough density to make such hosting technically and economically feasible My company (www.simtone.net) provides the "fourth element" - the universal platform that makes it easy for carriers to deploy, and for users to access cloud services. Mix ubiquitous broadband, sexy zero-touch stateless clients, virtualized datacenter infrastructure and the universal services delivery platform, and you have a formula to to make digital lifestyle effortless for nearly a billion of existing users, readily available to the remaining 5 billion potential users and profitable for carriers and their software partners. There is a huge opportunity for carriers to disrupt the PC business by delivering virtual personal computing as a telco-based consumer service. Broadband service providers can become a channel for the software vendors. The basic elements are there:
– broadband is fast enough to carry the remote display rendering protocol and deliver good-enough user experience
– end devices in the formfactor of netbooks are cheap and attractive enough to become stateless clients for the cloud services delivery
– servers are powerful enough and virtualization-enabled to host Virtual Desktops and Applications with high enough density to make such hosting technically and economically feasible

My company (www.simtone.net) provides the “fourth element” – the universal platform that makes it easy for carriers to deploy, and for users to access cloud services.

Mix ubiquitous broadband, sexy zero-touch stateless clients, virtualized datacenter infrastructure and the universal services delivery platform, and you have a formula to to make digital lifestyle effortless for nearly a billion of existing users, readily available to the remaining 5 billion potential users and profitable for carriers and their software partners.

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