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IBM has announced a new cloud services platform to help communications service providers capitalise on the growing market opportunity for public cloud services expected to increase to $89 billion by 2015.
This announcement is about helping communications service providers bring their customers new services. Service providers can now quickly and cost-effectively enable hundreds or even thousands of new services and use an integrated cloud service management platform to create, deliver and manage those services.
The IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform is a comprehensive set of hardware, software and services to help providers rapidly deliver cloud computing on their own. It includes carrier-grade technology with all the essential security and service management capabilities to ensure reliability essential to their own customers. They can use it to deliver “as-a-service” offerings such as collaboration applications, customer relationship management services, data storage, back up and recovery, and industry-specific applications.
This new cloud service management solution, built on the IBM Service Delivery Manager platform for cloud computing, can help service providers to:
- Accelerate the launch of new partner services from six months to six weeks
- Provision tens of thousands of virtual machines per hour
- Launch partner applications and services such as unified communications, collaboration, field force management, sales tracking and customer relationship management applications
- Provide developers a secure development and test cloud to create innovative new applications
- Offer infrastructure services to employees, partners and customers such as secure storage and virtual access to desktop applications
- Provision new services in less than a minute
- Scale to run and manage millions of concurrently running virtual machines
“IBM is using its cloud expertise to help the world’s service providers capture new market opportunities and expand the value of their networks in new ways,” said Scott Stainken, General Manager, IBM Global Telecommunications Industry.