Digital Transformation

Industry Insight: AT&T’s Alliances with Microsoft and IBM/Red Hat – A Tale of Two Clouds?

Posted by Leonard Lee in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Future of Cloud, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Market Intelligence, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Point of View, Research, Telecom

July has been a watershed month for AT&T as it enters into two major "cloud deals", one with Microsoft and another with the newly merged IBM and Red Hat. At first glance, the two deals seem oddly contradictory - a collision of proprietary Microsoft cloud (although about half of Azure workloads run on top of Linux) with open source cloud from the combined IBM and Red Hat. But why two cloud deals? What makes them different? What does it mean for the companies involved?

Hybrid Approaches to AI for Realizing Intelligent Networks in the 5G Era

Posted by Akshay Sharma in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Analytics & Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & Edge, Digital Transformation, Electronics, Future of Cloud, Innovation, Internet of Things, IT Services, IT/CT Convergence, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Research, Research Note, Security & Privacy, Telecom

You can't blame technology vendors and service providers for pushing the limits of marketing hype with Artificial Intelligence (AI). After all, it is hottest buzzword since cloud computing. But digital service providers in the emerging era of 5G need practical, real "AI" solutions to cost-efficiently scale their operations and deliver the quality of service that will deliver the promise of 5G to themselves as well as their customers. Hybrid approaches to AI are needed to accelerate return on investment as operators evolve their infrastructure and operations for a 5G future.

Digital Transformation World 2019: Key Takeaways

Posted by Leonard Lee in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Digital Transformation, Event Summary Report, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Podcasts, Professional Services, Research, Telecom

neXt Curve was in Nice, France attending the premier global event for digital transformation in the telecommunications industry held from May 14th through May 16th and hosted by TM Forum. Leading vendors and operators converged to discuss what it will take help the telecom industry reinvent itself and aid telecom service providers in becoming digital service providers. Now that 5G has arrived in select markets around the globe, the pressure is on for telecom operators to transform their operating models to capture the value promised by the next generation network.

Crossing the 5G and IoT Connectivity Chasm with SDR and SDN

Posted by Akshay Sharma in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Semiconductor End Markets, Semiconductors, Telecom

The 5G promise is broad and ambitious, but business leaders need to recognize that we are at the very beginning of this journey, and emerging technologies under the 5G umbrella are creating new opportunities for new entrants to fill the gaps as the world moves toward the promise of 5G such as 5G-enabled IoT, new shared spectrum resources, hybrid multi-cloud services brokering, network slicing on demand within mobile computing nano-data centers at the carrier edge.

The Fight for 5G Superiority will be Fought in The Cloud

Posted by Leonard Lee in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Future of Cloud, Holistic Trust & Security, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Network Tech, Research, Security & Privacy

Since the term "Cloud Computing" was coined, CSPs (Communications Service Providers) have had a tremendous challenge developing viable cloud capabilities and offerings for their enterprise clients that compete with emerging digital infrastructure players such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. With 5G on the horizon it is ever more critical that traditional telco operators find their cloud mojo lest current cloud leaders and new intermediary entrants make a move to the middle to take the great 5G promise away from them.

The Democratization of 5G Everything

Posted by Akshay Sharma in 5G, Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Research, Research Note, Security & Privacy, Telecom

The original telco central offices of the past had legacy mainframe-like telephone switches with legacy voice features, which was ideal in the 1980’s and 1990’s but are archaic today. With VoIP over LTE in the cloud, these local offices can be re-architected into 5G nano-datacenters that provide very low latency fixed and mobile access and distributed edge computing that will enable new and innovative hyperconverged IT/CT applications and services that avail new business models and network monetization opportunities for operators.

Contextually-Aware Mobile Security as a Service: The Key to IoT Security and GDPR Compliance & Readiness with Blockchain

Posted by Akshay Sharma in Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Podcasts, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Telecom

Mobile carriers with Managed Security Service Providers have the opportunity to address and solve some of the challenging cybersecurity issues threatening consumers and businesses alike, such as hardware-level vulnerabilities, encryption hacks, and inter-application data breaches, that are increasing the risk…

Tokenization: Fueling the Blockchain Business Model

Posted by Leonard Lee in Blockchain & Crypto, Business Strategy, Consulting, Digital Transformation, Energy, Holistic Trust & Security, Innovation, Internet of Things, Podcasts, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Supply Chain

With the rapid decline in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, attention has been shifting toward Blockchain, the technology that underlies cryptocurrency applications. We have heard a lot about tokens but what are they and what role do they play in the…

The Future of Cloud: The Cloud Continuum

Posted by Leonard Lee in Aerospace, Automotive, Business Strategy, CIO Advisory, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, CPG-Consumer Goods, Digital Board of Directors, Digital Transformation, Electronics, Energy, Executive Coaching, Financial Services, Healthcare & Insurance, Holistic Trust & Security, Innovation, Manufacturing, Pharma, Podcasts, Point of View, Research, Research Note, Retail, Telecom, Transportation & Logistics

Cloud of yesterday is not Cloud as we know it today. The computing model continues to evolve and virtualized enterprise data centers converge with public cloud service in creating the emerging frontier of hybrid computing. Where is cloud computing going and what is next?

The Future of The Car: Before We Give Up Our Steering Wheels

Posted by Leonard Lee in 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Automotive, Cloud & Edge, Holistic Trust & Security, Innovation, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Podcasts, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Robotics, Semiconductors, Transportation & Logistics

Autonomous/connected vehicles are all the rage at the moment with many industry pundits asserting and forecasting that self-driving cars will fill our streets in the near future. But there are some important realities that need to be considered before we…

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