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Public cloud vs. private cloud – what’s best for telco cloud workloads?

Telco clouds were always private clouds. But a new generation of hyperscale-adjacent telecom services blur the lines.

Telco cloud vs. IT cloud: What’s the difference?

The scalable and agile cloud architecture that governs both telco cloud and IT cloud is the same, even though service requirements are not.

Red Hat brings Ansible hybrid cloud and edge automation to Microsoft Azure

Red Hat's Ansible, its hybrid cloud and edge computing automation platform, is now available as a preview on Microsoft Azure.

Four capabilities telcos need to succeed at the edge (Reader Forum)

Telecommunications is a dynamic industry full of innovation. Meeting the challenges of the industry requires highly specialized solutions. With an entire marketplace of 5G technologies available, businesses are aggressively bolstering solutions to meet customer demand to either remain competitive or seize a market advantage....

What is a zero-touch network?: Hype vs. reality

The zero-touch network: a cloud optimizes and fixes itself without human intervention. Does it deliver the agility and scale operators need?

How is mobile edge computing infrastructure being deployed?

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) infrastructure is being deployed globally, coordinating efforts between network operators and hyperscalers.

Top 3 telco cloud use cases

Among other things, a telco cloud architecture makes it easier for operators to collaborate with enterprise customers to develop customized B2B solutions Because telco operations have more stringent performance and quality of service requirements than IT or public cloud operations — along with vastly more...

Top 5 mobile edge computing use cases

Mobile Edge Computing or Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is already having a transformational effect on business in the cloud.

Weaveworks makes GitOps play for telecom

Buoyed by success with Deutsche Telekom, Weaveworks wants telecom operators to use its Weave platform to manage cloud apps and Kubernetes.

Hyperscalers scramble to fix Apache Log4J 2 exploit

A severe exploit to the popular Java logging library Log4J 2 put hyperscalers into patch overdrive this weekend.

Automated scaling activity caused Tuesday’s AWS East failure, says Amazon

Processes to scale capacity triggered “unexpected behavior,” disrupting AWS’s internal network and hosted services in the popular region. Amazon provided additional details about last week’s AWS outage, which put many cloud-based businesses and services out of touch for hours on Tuesday. Some services hosted on or dependent...

Google Cloud IDS simplifies virtual private cloud network threat detection

The new Google Cloud IDS service integrates threat detection for enterprise virtual private clouds (VPCs) hosted by Google Cloud

Microsoft adds Rigetti quantum computers to Azure Quantum service

Rigetti's quantum computers are coming to Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem and marketplace in the first part of 2022.

AWS regional outage cripples Amazon and hosted services

AWS's biggest global region was unresponsive for several hours on Tuesday following an "impairment of network devices."

Vestberg’s vision for ’22 and Verizon’s ‘vectors of growth’

Hans Vestberg on 5G mobile edge: 'We're probably two years ahead of anybody else in the market, in the world even' Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg presented at the 2021 UBS Global TMT Conference earlier this week, where he touched on the company’s five “vectors of...

How is Google approaching MEC monetization?

Google Cloud: "Edge is de facto creating a new set of applications" At the recent Google Cloud Next event, the company took the wraps off Google Distributed Cloud, a new product portfolio that extends Google infrastructure to the edge and on-premise using qualified hardware. The...

Telecom edge vs. enterprise edge: With MEC, who should control what?

Shared risk and shared responsibility as public and private MEC are deployed Under the shingle of mobile edge computing (MEC), there are a lot of edges and a lot of ways to describe them. Here we’ll focus on the distinction between the telecom edge operators...

Google Cloud expands global infrastructure, underscores sustainability, human rights

Google Cloud expands its global infrastructure with new regions in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and United States.

AWS spurs Machine Learning research with free lab, $10M scholarship

AWS is promoting Machine Learning (ML) by giving away free SageMaker Studio Lab access and $10M in scholarship money for underserved students.

GTT adds Palo Alto-powered SASE to global Tier 1 network

GTT is integrating Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Access for its managed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering.

Verizon Network as a Service expands with Cisco SD-WAN solutions

Verizon Business has added Cisco SD-WAN solutions to its Network as a Service (NaaS) digitization strategy.

UK enterprises turn to service providers for hybrid cloud strategy: Report

U.K. enterprises need help from service providers to move IT infrastructure to the hybrid cloud, according to a new report.

Public MEC vs. private MEC or both?: Verizon taking two-pronged approach

Verizon has partnered with AWS and Microsoft on delivering MEC services Verizon is all in on both public and private MEC and has a range of partnerships in place with the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as companies focused on applications. But...

How to monetize MEC: ‘There is no easy button’

Turning MEC investments into business outcomes is an exercise in ecosystem development and solution integration  There’s an animating tension as it relates to service provider monetization of mobile edge computing (MEC) for enterprises. Businesses want to buy solutions that are easy to use, where the...