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During our NFV transformation project within a global Telco Group in the region, we got the chance to lunch a big RFP(Request for proposal) to select the right list of vendors to help us during this journey. We have defined a target strategy and set a clear roadmap for the different project millstones. The project was divided on many phases, one of the big phase was about transform the underlying infrastructure footprint that will hosts the NFV,IT and public cloud workload. The infrastructure phase was about select the right vendors for several domains. Below are the list of covered domains at that time:           Compute domain           Storage domain           Datacenter Network domain           Hypervisor domain           Storage virtualization domain           Software defined network SDN       ...

During my few years with technology telecommunication industry, I was involved and responsible for the technology trends evaluation. Through this process, Telecommunication operators can  follow technology refresh and trends for many domains. It was really challenging for me and my team to follow the trends for many domains: Cloud computing, infrastructure across different fields including computing, storage, networks, SDn openstack, big Data, etc.. We didn’t have enough time to write a fair document that allows us evaluating vendors against their solutions and bids. Commercial and technical evaluation need to be done each time we lunch a new RFP(Request of proposal). We spent days and nights writing, defining and setting the right requirements per domains as agnostic as possible against each vendors approach. At the same time we were very stressed by time and we should delivery as fast as possible to give the vendors the time to look for our requirements and invo...