Telefónica expands through the cloud

Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Kathy Mahady.

Keeping pace with new technologies is one of the most important things for leading telecommunication companies. Telefónica Digital, part of Telefónica, is doing just that with the company’s Instant Servers public-cloud service. Already Telefónica Digital has regional hubs in Silicon Valley, Sao Paulo, Spain, London and Israel. And the company is currently developing services in sectors such as financial services, e-health and cloud computing. I had the pleasure of talking to Juan Antonio Sánchez Cañibano, head of Cloud Information Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy.

What are business customers looking for in a public-cloud service?

When customers look at the public cloud, they look for computing resources, including storage and network, which come as a self-service in a highly-automated way, on-demand and in near-real-time. They require a low latency and easily scalable cloud services platform with quick response times, enabling them to rapidly respond to their own needs but also customers’ expectations. With our Instant Servers service, customers make significant cost savings because they pay only for the cloud services they require and the amount of time they use them…

How did you choose the right IT partner to help you launch the Instant Servers service? What was important to you when launching the Instant Servers?

It was important to find the right IT partner because we looked to do many things. We wanted to create a cloud service that delivered high-performance virtual servers, optimized for mobile, enterprise, machine to machine and big-data services. It is part of Telefónica’s global ICT strategy to provide a complete portfolio of services to meet the needs of business customers. With this in mind, we chose Dell as a partner. It was clear the company could deliver a full range of solutions to support the Instant Servers service. With Dell, it was like, “You want to use Joyent software, that’s great; let’s get to work.” We really liked the openness and expertise in delivering end-to-end solutions…

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