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Building the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today. Organizations can remove underutilized servers, replace aging networking and storage systems and improve / increase security.

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The Role of Network as a Service (NaaS) in Supporting Business Agility through an Asset-Lite Model

CIO Business Intelligence

Network as a Service (NaaS) supports the asset-light model by using operating expenses (OPEX) in a pay-per-use manner, and transferring technology, people and processes to a vendor/partner that is a specialist in its respective field. . Today there is a heightened demand for different types of network consumption.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach.

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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Those organizations that don’t make that change risk losing their customers to those that adopted an agile, customer-centric approach to business. However, for many financial services organizations, security and agility traditionally haven’t been mutually achievable—oftentimes, one was sacrificed for the other.

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Unleashing the Power of Cloud-Network Convergence with Smart Operation System

TM Forum

Cloud-network convergence is the essential feature of new digital information infrastructure. It breaks the boundary between cloud and network, and promotes them from independent development to comprehensive integration. The value of smart operation system for cloud-network convergence.

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ODA blog series: Creating next-gen telco interoperability on cloud native networks

TM Forum

The industry has talked for several years about implementing virtual network functions (VNFs) but it is 5G that has really accelerated the drive to the cloud and cloud native network functions (CNFs). Introducing ODA for Networks. ODA for Cloud-native networks. ODA for Cloud-native networks. ODA and TM?Forum’s

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1&1 contracts Rakuten for German 5G Open RAN network

TM Forum

Germany’s 1&1 AG has given a fillip to Open RAN and the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) by contracting Rakuten Group to help build its new mobile network, which will be Germany’s fourth. Its choice of partner to build a virtualized Open RAN 5G network points to Rakuten’s potential to shake up the telecoms industry.

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