Business providers should understand what cloud

Summary:





Network Service providers now provide cloud services for 3 reasons


Network intelligence and capability are the advantages of network service providers


open approach and partners can bring better flexibility to revenue growth: breaking into huge markets




The demand for
public cloud, private cloud and mixed cloud is rising. But they tell us the same thing, that the cloud does have a great opportunity. See the following market forecasts and analysis:




The total market value of
2011 Public Cloud Services was 25.5B USD. Of these, 21.2B USD originates from saas,2.9b from iaas,8b from PAAs.


2020, the Global cloud computing market is up to 241B USD, covering everything from software to cloud platforms.


as of 2014, 85% of new cloud service software will be available, and nearly one-third of new software will be purchased by cloud. Business and finance drive the demand for cloud services. They are seeking to streamline operations, increase productivity and reduce costs. They are also looking for a skilled new generation of employees who are able to put their equipment into work while becoming accustomed to working through social media tools rather than traditional isolated business tools.





Network service providers have trusted and established relationships with businesses. By extending these relationships to cloud services, network service providers can improve their location and better address these challenges for the enterprise. With the increasing value of network service providers, they can presumed a considerable proportion of the cloud services market share.





the right time




The main reason why
Network service providers need to grasp cloud service opportunities today is three points:





cloud services can increase revenue and provide opportunities for network service providers. The demand for cloud services is high. Most network service providers have already provided some form of cloud service. Unified communications, disaster recovery, and backup services are driven by software applications in the network and are charged on a per-usage basis. IaaS, PAAs, and SaaS allow network service providers to build on existing investments, relationships, and success stories to increase revenue.





Cloud services can help network providers improve their competitiveness. Competition is also fierce in the hot new cloud services market. Many non-network service providers are actively providing data center and management services to the customers of their network service providers. However, the network service provider has a big advantage, that is the network. They are able to provide secure and quality cloud services that non-network service providers are not good at.





Cloud services and technologies enhance agility. Internal Agility drives The agility of the business. Network service providers can use cloud services and technologies to simplify and accelerate network operations. This can reduce the cost and complexity of deploying cloud services.　　From another perspective: cloud technology and business models can improve operational efficiencies, and network service providers can better help their corporate customers improve operational efficiencies through the use of cloud services. Competition: The network is the main difference factor





Non-network service providers do not waste time on companies that provide cloud hosting services-especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Today, however, most cloud services are considered to be part of the "Scatter cloud". QoS is probably not guaranteed. Moreover, the SLA is minimal and there is little or no penalty in it.





scattered clouds are not enough for many businesses and organizations. Considering the vertical market, medical, financial and government organizations have made specific demands for security, privacy and industry compliance. They also allow long-term trusted network service providers to manage networks, such as VPN services.





VPN provides secure, virtualized, and cloud-based connections between multiple sites. Compared to traditional WAN services, Ethernet and IP based VPNs provide higher QoS, lower latency, and lower-cost high-speed connections. Most SMEs and organizations already believe that VPN services can be applied to their day-to-day and critical work. For many companies, accepting cloud computing will be a natural choice.





High leverage NETWORK™HLN Network service providers can exploit the intelligence embedded in the network to expand their relationship with customers, which is far more than Yu Shanyun can do. In addition to providing high bandwidth, high QoS and low latency, HLN can do the following:





provides ubiquitous wired and wireless access


scale bandwidth on demand


provides different levels of secure access


provides intelligent traffic management


Monitoring Cloud Application Ability


provides application assurance and application SLAs


provides an open API that encourages innovative network service providers to combine these capabilities with other capabilities, such as security, strategy, mobility, and so on, to further provide differentiated cloud services and make themselves more attractive.





Agile: Partner accelerates Cloud process





More and more network service providers are aware of the opportunity to harness cloud services to combine internal transitions and business transitions. A typical business can support 250 to 750 applications. Network service providers are often able to deliver more than 1000 applications. They have all the applications of a typical enterprise. Plus, they also have operations and management applications that support a large number of traditional businesses.





migrating to Service Oriented architecture SOA can reduce the complexity within the Network service provider organization. In addition, virtualization and abstraction applications and services enable network service providers to get rid of traditional "chimney" or "isolated" service modes. Virtualization also facilitates the eco-sustainable Action of network service providers.





with these efficiencies, network service providers can migrate to streamlined service patterns that require new, fast, efficient, and inexpensive cloud services to support dozens of or even hundreds of of them.





Partners can help network service providers gain speed and flexibility by leveraging these to improve their operations and meet market demands.





supplier partners accelerate access to cloud services. It often takes months to expand the infrastructure to provide new services. With their data center cloud hosting services, network service providers can get almost instant new products.





similar to what these companies serve, network service providers can take advantage of the outsourcing model to easily meet new requirements. Alcatel-Lucent practice shows that business deployment time can be reduced by as much as 90% in cloud mode compared to traditional deployment patterns. The negotiation of the Revenue sharing agreement is very attractive to both the network service provider and the corresponding partners.





Application and content provider partners to accelerate innovation. With the application enabling mechanism, the network service provider can meet the customer's inability to meet their own immediate needs. At the same time, they can combine the innovation of multiple partners, for example, in mashup service, add creativity and value to partner innovation.　　Network service providers can also allow enterprise customers to create applications in the cloud and then tailor the level of service assurance associated with them. Open, secure, conventional approaches are key





with the direction of cloud, network service providers will need to work with suppliers that can provide an open and standardized approach that allows their applications to join other clouds. They should also make sure that they will. Security and compliance are integrated into all aspects of the solution. Most importantly, network service providers will need to ensure that network, storage, and computing resources are managed across environments in a regular manner, enabling them to provide truly resilient services that can be optimized based on application or business requirements.