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Cosmote trials AI-driven NFV energy savings to deliver more sustainable 5G edge computing

TM Forum

How: As part of a TM Forum Catalyst, Greek operator Cosmote tested Intracom Telecom's NFV Resource Intelligence platform (NFV-RI), which is designed to significantly reduce the energy consumption of an NFV datacenter by dynamically and automatically adapting the power of dataplane Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to the actual load.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume. These principles not only ensure software systems work well together, but also that teams work together in service of the organization’s overall software development strategy.

Strategy 138
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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

5G network investments have essentially amounted to the largest round of spending the industry has ever gone through, which currently only brings us to the non-standalone version of the wireless technology. The majority of network sharing for 5G to date is happening in radio access networks (RANs). High capex costs.

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What makes a CIO truly great?

CIO Business Intelligence

I asked a group of executives for the most important adjectives they would use to describe successful CIOs. Twenty years ago, CIOs had to be knowledgeable about enterprise systems. Is there such a list for high-performance CIOs? If so, how long might it be? Today, it’s all about data.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Variety in collaboration tools is not a curse!

CTOvision

New collaboration tools come with apps that simplify integration with other enterprise systems. Collaboration tools are proliferating and this complicates adoption of a universal enterprise collaboration platform. This last factor can generate to more "Balkanization" -- and less collaboration. That is just the way things are.

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