Ericsson integrates legacy system with open cloud stack; focus on security, governance
BARCELONA, Spain – Ericsson debuted its HDS 8000 cloud platform designed for data center and telecom deployment at Mobile World Congress 2015.
Jason Hoffman, head of cloud technologies for Ericsson’s Product Area Cloud, said current cloud technologies “have fallen short.”
He posed the question: “How do we put infrastructure into place that allows people to rapidly innovate, do new applications, mine data in new ways, yet actually have a phenomenal governance model?”
Enter Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000, which uses Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture that is designed to boost enterprise efficiency and automation while driving down cost. Hoffman described the need for enterprises to modernize by moving to cloud-based environments while taking into account the importance of legacy hardware systems.
HDS 8000 is designed to allow the two system types to work together through an open software platform. He called that integration “modern plus legacy.”
The end goal, Hoffman said, is to remove inefficiency from networks by eliminating human mistakes, but that automation has to be balanced with accessible management.
“The purpose of automation is to make these types of infrastructures error-free,” Hoffman explained. “But you have to govern. You can’t just make an army of robots. Having governance models around performance and scalability and quality, that’s what we’re very good at. That’s our bread and butter.”
The datacenter product draws from Ericsson’s acquisition of Apcera, along with partnerships with Intel and CleverSafe.
