Cloud computing to reshape telecoms it

The global telecommunication operation industry enters the low speed growth time, how improves the user experience, and looks for the new business growth opportunity to become the operator urgently to solve the problem. To this end, in the June "Telecom it Month" series of reports, we will start from cloud computing, BOSS, business intelligence and other major aspects of how to use these key technologies to improve the efficiency of telecommunications operators information systems, improve the user experience.

"China Mobile wants to introduce cloud computing into the construction of the company's information system, achieve effective integration of IT resources, reduce the cost of IT system construction and operation, and upgrade the operation efficiency of China Mobile IT system to a new height and improve the user's business experience." Zhengmao, vice president of China Mobile, said at the third session of the cloud Computing conference.
Overall, he argues, global telecoms operations have entered a period of slow growth. How to reduce the construction and operation cost of the business system, and find the new business growth point becomes the problem that the operator needs to solve.

Cloud computing answers the question. Today, the adoption of cloud computing to reshape IT systems has become a worldwide consensus among operators.

Create efficient it

In recent years, new telecom business is emerging, but almost all business is based on IT system independent construction, the business structure is vertical distribution, that is, "chimney-type" IT business construction model. Each business has exclusive IT system resources and server resources cannot be shared among systems, so each business system is typically configured only at the highest traffic level.

Noda Consulting that, the traditional independent business system construction way makes the system's IT resources average utilization is less than 10%, some even less than 5%,it resources low utilization rate directly causes the business cost to be high. The current number of IT systems, the current accounting for about 20% of the total investment, and the proportion of the trend is rising year by year.

Through cloud computing, operators have found an efficient it path. "Through cloud computing, operators can consolidate existing IT resources and build a unified infrastructure for the telecommunications business and support system based on cloud computing, thereby effectively enhancing the responsiveness of IT support systems and reducing the cost of enterprise IT investment," Wang Siwei, an expert from the operator, told reporters.

The three major domestic operators have begun to explore this area. For example, Beijing Mobile as early as 2009 on the launch of the "Cloud Road", the use of cloud computing technology to build an internal information system, the success of the cost reduction, energy saving and emission reduction strategic objectives.

It is understood that by the middle of 2011, Beijing Mobile operating on the cloud platform on the internal information business will reach 50%.

Fan Bing, deputy general manager of Beijing Mobile, said: "At present, the information system of the operator is faced with the increasing cost of investment, the system complexity increased year in, the business demand for IT support increased, system flexibility and response speed is imminent, Beijing Mobile proposed ' Cloud ' strategy is to improve the internal information system through cloud computing technology, realize unification, automate management, respond to the rapid deployment requirements of the business, and achieve the goal of cost savings.

China Telecom also began to study several years ago how to move the information system to the cloud computing platform, and has already had preliminary results.

At present, some provincial companies in China Telecom desk surface system has been implemented "cloud." In China Telecom Business Hall, some service platforms are also migrated to the cloud platform.

In particular, an insider from China Telecom told reporters that China Telecom used cloud computing to transform the traditional call center, which greatly improved the efficiency of the call center.

Open up the blue sea market

"The use of cloud computing for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide information services is an opportunity for operators in the cloud environment." "Wang Siwei said.

Most SMEs do not have enough funds to invest in building efficient information systems, and often support the construction of enterprise informatization by renting operators ' data centers.

Therefore, for operators with network advantages, the use of cloud computing for SMEs to provide information services is undoubtedly the blue sea market.

Zhengmao also mentioned that operators should play the network advantage, build public service cloud, for the general public and enterprise customers to provide ubiquitous, omnipotent Mobile information services.

At present, China Telecom will be the SME cloud services as a future focus on the provision of cloud computing services, the SME cloud broadband solutions.

And China Mobile's "Big Cloud" program is also a "hybrid cloud", on the one hand for China Mobile IT Support system services, on the other hand to meet China Mobile to provide mobile internet business and services needs.

In particular, Shanghai Telecom pushed "e-cloud" storage services to some High-value customers in Shanghai's "City Light Network" project, which greatly improved the user Apru value.

Led by cloud computing, telecom operators are building efficient information systems and finding new business growth opportunities.

The Stone of his mountain

At&t: Computing as a service

Recently, At&t announced a new cloud computing service-"Synapticcompu-teasaservice"-designed to provide customizable, highly scalable cloud computing services to businesses of all sizes in the world. Enterprise users can use the computing processing functions that meet their needs within the At&t world class network. In addition to operating on the server's performance, configuration, and management through a dedicated portal site, you can use the virtual server's hard disk capacity and 24-hour network monitoring.

BT: Network is the advantage

In the BT cloud computing strategy, the object of service is enterprise customers. BT believes that in the cloud computing network itself is an important factor, due to network problems caused by users of cloud services is not very satisfied. So operators have a lot of opportunities in the cloud market. The BT virtual data Center (VDC) service is designed to help large businesses and public institutions successfully cope with the current economic environment and prepare for the future. The dynamic virtualization infrastructure platform provided by VDC enables them to use their IT and network infrastructures as a service and build the foundation for future cloud services.

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