Tag: Cloud

Tata Communications and Amazon Web Services to Build AI Network in India, as More Telcos Look to Deploy AI-ready Infrastructure

by Brendan Swan, posted in Network
B. Swan

Summary Bullets:

• Tata Communications will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a high-capacity network connecting three major AWS infrastructure locations in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai.

• In a growing trend, more telecom providers are building high-capacity terrestrial networks to meet the growing demand in bandwidth contributed by the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud.

Tata Communications has announced a new partnership with AWS to build and deploy a high-capacity national terrestrial network backbone, making a significant move in transforming the country’s digital infrastructure evolution. This strategic collaboration between the two supports the continued rise in demand for data-intensive workloads driven by AI and cloud adoption. In what is becoming an increasing trend among global telecom operators, with more carriers investing substantial funds to expand, or upgrade their terrestrial networks to meet future data traffic demands, contributed by data-hungry workloads such as AI/ML, while future-proofing their networks to meet the requirements of their hyperscalers and enterprise customers.

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AWS Summit Sydney – Accelerating AI from Possibilities to Production

by siowmeng, posted in Big Data
S. Soh

Summary Bullets:

• At this year’s AWS Summit in Sydney, AI has moved further along from conversation around large language models (LLMs) to practical AI examples driven by agentic AI.

• AI adoption is now across start-ups, SaaS companies, service providers, and enterprises with modern tech stacks.

It is no surprise that at the AWS Summit Sydney 2025, AI is still front and center. What is different from a year ago however, is the shift in conversation from LLMs and what they can potentially achieve to more practical AI including agentic AI and how they are now being deployed across different scenarios. While AI companies continue to formulate new models and enhance their accuracy and capability, there are now more ways enterprises can extract the value from AI models for different use cases. When posed a question how enterprises should go about selecting the right AI model, an AI advisory firm explained aptly that it should depend on the problem AI is meant to solve, and the level of IQ you need for that purpose. A less sophisticated, but more economical AI model, should suffice if the purpose does not require extensive reasoning or an LLM that is capable of performing a wide range of tasks.

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Observability Providers Streamline Visibility Tools for DevOps

by Charlotte Dunlap, posted in Cloud Enable
C. Dunlap Research Director

Summary Bullets:

  • Open-source software (OSS) technologies are improving developer access to advanced services
  • Vendors are heeding the call for more streamlined access to telemetry data management

An increase in telemetry data management requirements associated with containerized applications and microservices across highly distributed systems has prompted the need for greater visibility among more DevOps team members.

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Telefónica Tech Seeks to Maximize Operational Capabilities with a Transversal Operating Model

by Beatriz Valle, posted in Big Data, Cloud Enable, Secure
B. Valle

Summary Bullets:

• Telefónica Tech held its analyst event in London, UK, on November 28, 2024.

• The company has created a new operating model designed to replicate its local capabilities at a global scale.

GlobalData attended Telefónica Tech’s analyst day in London, UK, on November 28, 2024. The company recently reached the milestone of EUR2 billion in revenue, having evolved from a communications player later delivering traditional IT, to the cloud, implementing IoT solutions, and then moving on to AI projects. 2024 has been a momentous year for the company, which celebrated its centenary since it started out in 1924.

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Google Cloud Summit UK: Integrating AI Across Silicon, Platform, Cloud, and Applications

by Beatriz Valle, posted in Big Data, IT Leader
B. Valle

Summary Bullets:

• Google Cloud held its first annual summit at the Tobacco Docks in East London (England) in October 2024.

• Announcements included Google’s expanded data residency to help customers undertake Gemini 1.5 Flash ML processing and data storage entirely in the UK, if they handle sensitive data that cannot leave the country.

Google Cloud held its first annual summit at the Tobacco Docks in East London (England) in October 2024. The event included keynotes, workshops, demos, and the prominent presence of an exciting ecosystem of startups, driven by the launch of the Google Cloud Startup Hub, a new community space for developers and entrepreneurs.

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HPE Discover 2017: Under Antonio Neri, HPE Will Expand Its Focus on the Edge and Intelligent IT

by Chris Drake, posted in Cloud Enable

C. Drake

Summary Bullets:

• At its Discover event in Madrid, HPE communicated its vision and strategy and to an industry eager to comprehend the impact of Meg Whitman’s decision to step down as CEO.

• In addition to its goal of making hybrid IT simple for enterprise customers, HPE, under its incoming CEO, Antonio Neri, will strengthen its focus on IoT, what it terms “intelligent IT”, edge computing, converged OT control systems, and analytics.

For HPE, last week’s Discover event in Madrid was an opportunity to communicate its vision and strategy to an industry eager to comprehend the impact of Meg Whitman’s announced decision, the week before, to step down as CEO. In her time as CEO, Whitman oversaw the company’s transformation from a provider of traditional data center infrastructure to a business focused on enterprise cloud and hybrid IT solutions. This transformation saw the creation of HPE at the end of 2014, followed by a further slimming down of the company via the disposal of non-core businesses. At the same time, HPE acquired several new companies, including wireless-network infrastructure provider, Aruba Networks and all-flash hybrid storage array provider, Nimble Storage. Continue reading “HPE Discover 2017: Under Antonio Neri, HPE Will Expand Its Focus on the Edge and Intelligent IT” →

Cloud Leaders Must Acknowledge Importance of Agility via OSS Initiatives

by Charlotte Dunlap, posted in Cloud Enable

C. Dunlap

Summary Bullets:

• Leading into JavaOne, keep an eye on prominent microservices community project MicroProfile including vendor participants.

• Another important cloud initiative receives strong support this month via Microsoft and AWS.

As we head into the crush of fall conferences among application platform and cloud vendors, I’m watching for themes that will further the modernization of application development. Since I have concerns about the ongoing complexities around emerging microservices architectures, community projects focused on improving the development process via open source software initiatives will be especially important in coming months.

This week a prominent community project focused on microservices, MicroProfile, announced key feature enhancements aimed at accelerating the adoption of microservices within the Java EE community. While there are multiple efforts around standardizing Java EE technology, not the least of which is JCP, MicroProfile’s latest enhancement will include a common configuration API that can be applied to multiple deployments, basically externalizing a configuration from an app to support a rapidly changing DevOps environment including continuous delivery. Going forward, other areas the group is considering includes integration with Health Check, Health Metrics, and Fault Tolerance. Continue reading “Cloud Leaders Must Acknowledge Importance of Agility via OSS Initiatives” →

Is Cloud Still an Exciting Technology in Asia Pacific?

by Alfie Amir, posted in Cloud Enable

A. Amir

Summary Bullets:

• Overall cloud adoption in Asia Pacific is still low. As the region is very diverse, cloud adoption of a country can vary significantly.

• Despite playing in the market for many years, majority of providers are still struggling to find the right formula to win in this region.

Is cloud no longer an exciting technology? It is true to a certain extent. Cloud has been around for many years. With a matured ecosystem today, service providers are well aware of their positions and competitions in the market while businesses are already seeing both technical and business benefits from their cloud implementations. The conversations have changed from ‘moving to cloud’ to ‘cloud enabling digital transformation’. This is at least how cloud appears to be in the industry. Continue reading “Is Cloud Still an Exciting Technology in Asia Pacific?” →

As Huawei Expands Its Public Cloud Platform It Should Not Underestimate Private and Hybrid Cloud Requirements

by Chris Drake, posted in Cloud Enable

C. Drake

Summary Bullets:

• Although Huawei’s public cloud platform will compete internationally against Amazon, Microsoft and Google, Huawei will differentiate by focusing on emerging markets and specific verticals.

• In promoting its public cloud platform, Huawei must continue to support the long-term need among many enterprises for private and hybrid cloud solutions.

It’s been a busy few weeks for Huawei, which has been forging ahead with new initiatives for supporting the adoption of cloud-based technologies and services among enterprise customers. One of the most attention-grabbing announcements at Huawei’s 14th Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen (April 11-13), centered on the international expansion of the company’s public cloud platform. Huawei has offered public cloud services in China since 2015, competing against local providers such as Alibaba. It is now extending its ability to deliver public cloud services internationally via strategic partnerships with Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, which will each utilize Huawei’s platform to offer public cloud services in regions where they have network infrastructure strengths. Although Huawei plans to extend its public cloud platform to other regions, it will do so cautiously, in response to customer demand, and with partners that need strict selection criteria. Continue reading “As Huawei Expands Its Public Cloud Platform It Should Not Underestimate Private and Hybrid Cloud Requirements” →

Huawei Analyst Summit 2017: Huawei, More Open Than You Think When it Comes to Big Data

by , posted in Big Data

B. Shimmin
B. Shimmin

Summary Bullets:

• At its annual Huawei Analyst Summit 2017, Huawei spoke of solutions built on top of two pillars: an open IaaS/PaaS cloud platform paired with an open ecosystem of partners.

• The vendor’s premise? Let Huawei handle the infrastructure (the cloud, pipes and devices, as Huawei puts it), leaving the rest to those who know business outcomes the best.

At its annual Huawei Analyst Summit 2017, the Chinese powerhouse took a surprising turn. At past events the vendor emphasized its ability to squeeze more performance from its sizable portfolio of predominantly hardware-based data center and networking offerings. The objective was simple: demonstrate a better cost/value ratio for high value workloads like video. That approach remains a solid strategy, one that is all too familiar to rival firms like Cisco. This is especially true for vendors seeking attention from the still lucrative telecom operator marketplace.
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