Carriers face challenges to compete in cloud computing services market
March 15, 2013
Grazed from RCRWireless. Author: Roberta Prescott.
Cloud computing is gaining momentum, and telecom operators are battling for cloud computing customers. Carriers face fierce competition in this emerging market, and many have to solve several issues before becoming strong competitors. Almost all data center and infrastructure providers have included some kind of cloud service offering in their portfolio, and they have entered this field with the intention of gaining a huge share of this market.
Anderson B. Figueiredo, IDC research and consulting manager, said that large data center providers have made major investments to build their cloud strategy and portfolio. Together, the main vendors have spent U.S.$17 billion is acquisitions over the past 20 months, an amount IDC forecasts will reach U.S.$25 billion over the next 20 months…
Recently, Oracle announced the acquisition of Nimbula for hybrid cloud software. The transaction, the terms of which were not disclosed, is expected to close in the first half of 2013. For the telecom operators, Figueiredo said that while they know better how to charge per use—which they have done ever since starting business—telecom operators are not good at providing IT. “They don’t know how to talk about IT business alignment,” he said during a meeting with journalists in São Paulo, Brazil. In addition, carriers in several countries have to overcome an association with poor quality because of problems with telephony and data services…
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