Big telcos with cloudy pretensions
Two stories in the past week, to remind us that big telecoms incumbents have the customer relationships, the brand recognition, the data centres, the network and the ambition to offer cloud services. These are normally aimed at their existing customers, particularly big enterprises with existing co-lo relationships to these telcos. They’re also, normally, aimed at […]
Is India Becoming The Next Cloud Destination?
APAC was a hot destination for cloud vendors last year and the trend is continuing this year too. However, it appears India could turn out to be the next stop in their journey. Last year, Tata Communications used the now Citrix CloudStack to launch their public cloud offering in India. Theirs was the first public […]
Another Telco Goes Cloudy
I have a friend who works within a telco on strategy who has an oft-repeated mantra that telcos were the original SaaS vendors – monthly billing, consumption based billing, accessible support (OK this is perhaps debateable) and rapid scalability all parallels nicely with what we see as part and parcel of SaaS. It’s therefore sensible […]
