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A business case of NFV includes by default all the benefits coming up within virtualization. Virtualization improves  the cost spent on different hardware types by unify infrastructure layer and separates applications and OS layer form hardware layer. This change have bring a lot of saving  to CAPEX and also to OPEX area. Today, most of IT applications ,and even mission critical application, are running on top of virtualization platforms. Operators have already started a stage of application migration and database consolidation to run on virtualization environment. A lot of saving was observed from license model, hardware utilization, and no more skills are needed to manage these different kinds of servers and storage systems. A single type of support contract and process was applied for a common layer of infrastructure and virtualization. Investment for  converged  platforms of back up, security, load balancers,network was  done and ...

If your are a Head of IT department or you are managing your CSP's private cloud computing, a lot of questions, requests are coming for you soon. Many Telco vendors are deploying their applications on top of  X86 platforms and they announced even  supporting virtualized  environment. In most of Telecom operators, IT and Telco network are separated activities, dedicated budget and  teams. Telecom vendors use to offer the entire solution from hardware to software to service. Most of work was about integration new service within existing platforms, configuration and do planning and dimensioning of your network. With the huge decline of Telco revenue and the success of OTT business model, many CSPs are thinking about reducing CAPEX and OPEX and trying to be me more efficient, innovative and more faster to reach a better time to market. On the other hand, Cloud Computing is demonstrating a good success on IT domain. One decade was enough to bring IT on top o...

IT have started doing consolidation and platform virtualsation from a while. A good level of maturity is reached and many IT managers are planned to deploy Cloud layer in order to satisfy the fast growth of customers request and reach a best time to market. Many excited features and functions are offered by cloud platform like Service Portal, service Catalog, Capacity management, Automation and workflows feature and also a very important module called charge-back module. IT manger didn't give the same importance to such feature and focus only on the technical part of Cloud platforms. Consolidation and virtualization have helped companies reducing very well CAPEX and OPEX by improving the percent of hardware utilization and centralize support activities and knowledge. Reaching a high level of virtualization will reduce a while your investisment regarding infrastructure and hardware part. IT managers should be very careful in order to not doing the same error as before. IT was cons...

All the debats and discussions today on CSPs and Telco operators are about IT and Telco convergence. In fact, after this big success of IT on achieving an important percent of  infrastructure consolidation  across different domains starting from Servers, going to storage and  finishing by  Data center network. Virtualzation of the different components of infrastructure had pushed IT infrastructure vendors to think about reducing more time to market and be more efficient by introducing cloud management platforms. Such platforms had proved their utility today when speaking about workload orchestration and automatic provisioning. Service Catalogs and End user Portal have helped customers to take control of all the chain and request services as he want. Infrastructure is coming more oriented service more than before. life cycle management helps IT administrator to manage the hall provisioning chain from request service to resource and capacity management. ...

CMP or Cloud management platform is a hot topic for IT enterprise and CSPs. After many years of infrastructure consolidation and resources visualization many companies have started looking for Cloud platforms and adapting automation as the way to satisfy the huge number of requested coming from business units and internal teams. Such companies found their selves  dealing with many cloud platforms, some for private use, others for public needs. And even more, since business approach are different for each product solutions, many operators are using Cloud platform as  a revenue Sharing platform in order  to share risks and have time to market much more better than the traditional way of doing business. All of this reasons have initiated a new need for one platform that help entreprise unify this cloud silos platforms and bring them all together an order to facilitate management for IT teams  and give business  the power of unification to bundle offers and...

                                                                                 Tunisia Government Cloud Initiative   I have published the Prez which resumes the global aspects of the Tunisia Govenment Cloud intiative. Some studies are based on federal and vendors  cloud simulators . I have focused on showing the importance of adopting such strategy for modern government. Changing the way business is working, citizen oriented model and transperency are the big causes for adopting such intiative. Many governments around the world have done similar initiative. From USA, UK to Japon, Australia and Europe have developed their own global government Startegy to reform their IT to be support Economic changes and goals. Many govenments around the world are facing bi...

  There are many reasons for government agencies to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing platforms. One of the most cited benefit is the economic model  of  Cloud Computing. Four distinct mechanisms can generate cost savings for govenment agency and organization: Lowering the opportunity cost of running technology The aibility to shift from capital expenditure to operating expenditure Lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of technology Giving organizations the ability to add business value by renewed focus on core activities Cost saving is the hot topic for most government since the global economic situation around the world. Historically, there were two discssions that focused on cloud computing cost saving.       The first was focused on server virtualization and application consolidation on under-utilized resources. Reducing spend on rackspace,network,infrastructure,pooling, powera and datacenter can ...