Ericsson, a leader in communications technology and services, has unveiled new software and hardware to its Ericsson Cloud System as the demand for cloud is growing but concerns around security and governance are slowing adoption.

The new launch aims at mitigating this need, creating new disruptive levels of performance, operations, compliance,  economics and can work across multiple clouds to achieve competitive differentiation and value-add for operators and their large enterprise customers.

The new products in Ericsson Cloud System include Ericsson HDS 8000 (Hyperscale Datacenter System), built on Intel Rack Scale Architecture; Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage and Ericsson Continuum delivering the best policy driven platform for hybrid cloud leveraging Ericsson’s investment in Apcera.

The data, applications and distributed cloud infrastructures can now be automated and governed for security and compliance, meeting global enterprise policy requirements and geo specific regulations.

Ericsson HDS 8000 is a new generation of hyperscale datacentre systems that uses Intel Rack Scale Architecture for a disaggregated hardware approach to dramatically improve efficiency, utilisation, automation and total cost of ownership.

Hans Vestberg, president and chief executive officer, said: “Technology change is exponential in the ICT industry but investment in infrastructure cannot be. With Intel and other industry leaders we are bringing a hyperscale approach across both software and hardware, we are re-inventing the future data center concept from a total architecture and economics perspective.”

Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel Corporation, said: “We believe it’s important for the industry to collaborate to transform network infrastructure and accelerate the delivery of telecommunications, cloud and data centre services. Our efforts with Ericsson and their use of Intel® Rack Scale Architecture will drive continued innovation in the data centre.”

Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage is a pre-integrated portfolio of data services complementing the policy-driven hybrid PaaS layer, streamlining web scale development and deployment of new data rich applications. The data services portfolio adds leading cloud software databases that span traditional relational databases to web scale, big data NoSQL type databases.

Ericsson is partnering with Cleversafe in this area, a leading provider of web scale object storage. Ericsson’s first announced product is secure object storage capable of controlling access with policy and guaranteeing carrier-grade data and system security and integrity of data.

Ericsson Continuum is a unique policy driven PaaS with hybrid cloud support for application deployment, orchestration and governance through Ericsson Continuum.

The unique policy-driven PaaS now supports a hybrid approach across multiple clouds, enabling global enterprise to take advantage of public cloud, on-premise private cloud and industry cloud infrastructure resources to achieve the best levels of performance, agility, scale, cost-effectiveness and compliance, within the context of strong IT governance and control. Ericsson Continuum also provides the most secure deployment of Docker containers.

Ericsson Cloud System maintains full support for OPNFV through the Ericsson Networks Software 15B release to drive a successful transformation to telecom cloud operations. - TradeArabia News Service