Cloud platform

     Nokia is very keen in promoting its nascent cloud services for Telco that it is offering. This is barely three months after Nokia launched its AirFrame data center. This is according to a report by Telecoms.com.  The AirFrame is available as a containerized cloud solution that has an in built cooling system and power. The company also added a software defined storage module to the AirFrame. The data center is supported by a package from cloud Care Services. The package has management module for resolving VNF faults and support package for VMWare deployment. The AirFrame data center is also promoting OOS for Telco cloud offering. When all of this is brought together, the whole project seems like it is more of a strategic consultation tune-up than a physical entity.

     The whole thing has been brought together by something that Nokia is referring to as Service Chaining. Service Chaining is just a term for virtualized setting for dispensing a variety of network services. Nokia has come up with a new form of cloud solutions. They have started the journey that can see the world of cloud computing changing. The extensive and open cloud portfolio ensures that operators have assistance when making important decisions when selecting the most important services, efficient processes and solutions from corner to corner of all domains.

     The Nokia Telco cloud will help operators in achieving the maximum benefits that one can enjoy from IT convergence and Telco. The Nokia Telco cloud is a business cloud type of cloud. The introduction of that cloud has played a great role in strengthening Nokia’s ground as a major player in the field of cloud service providers. It has also ensured that Nokia is a full time cloud service provider in the mobile sector. Although it has taken a while for Nokia to catch up since most of their competitors have already established their presence in this area, it is a step in the right direction.

     Alcatel and Google have announced that they will upgrade the content delivery network in for their cloud services. The announcement hah just highlighted the importance of content delivery networks or CDNs.  The purpose of the upgrades to ensure that content delivery is quick without latency or lag. Google’s cloud platform is have more speed as the gigantic search engine company wants to add four more content delivery networks. The additional networks include Level 3 communications, Highwinds Network, Fastly and CloudFlare are the four content delivery networks that are going to be added to Google’s network of 70 points of presence in 33 countries. This makes up the Google’s new content delivery network Interconnect program which is within the Google cloud Interconnect line.

      The purpose of the improvements is to ensure that content delivery network customers will pay less when moving data between Google cloud platform and the content delivery network. The additions according to Google cloud platform will ensure that speed of delivering rich media workloads from Google cloud platform to end user devices will increase. The mobile and web applications that are being developed nowadays are capable of carrying a lot of media assets which was the reason why Google had to increase the speed of their CDN. In November, 2014, the cloud provider launched the Google Carrier Interconnect in order to link enterprise clients with Google cloud.

On the other hand, Alcatel_lucent has also made an upgrade in order to boost its cloud based IP video storage and CDNs. The improvements have seen a new cloud DVR platform being installed and a new elastic CDN being put in place. This is in line with helping clients to dynamically manage the network capacity as more and more clients demand more resources. The cloud DVR platform has new features that ensure that clients will have access to more storage features when using the cloud services from Alcatel-Lucent. This has been made possible by incorporating help from Intel which uses Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library. 

      Cisco has taking cloud computing a step further through the creation of intercloud. Through a project named intercloud initiative, Cisco seeks to create a new form of cloud by connecting several clouds. The intercloud will be a kind of a massive hybrid cloud that will be a part of a larger network that can be accessed from any where at any time. During the annual Cisco Live, the intercloud initiative was overtaken by the concept of Internet of Everything. However, development of the cloud is important for Cisco since the intercloud will be a part of the technology that will be used when developing the connections, collecting data and processing data.

     Cisco has also gone a step further and added 35 more members to the team that has been tasked with building the cloud. These members will help in developing the cloud the cloud on three stages. These three stages are plat form development of next generation analytics, big data and cloud services for the Internet of Everything. The company has also ensured that they have updated the security features of its Cisco Intercloud Fabric. The innovations that have been included in this super cloud have ensured that the complexity that is associated with hybrid clouds is eliminated. This will enable flexibility in moving workloads as well as implementing proper security policies in the network environments through private and public cloud.

        Cisco together with its partners is in the process of offering organizations cloud services and next generation applications through a platform referred to as Cisco Intercloud Marketplace. This is a global market that Cisco is planning to open this fall. Through this cloud platform, developer will have the right environment to create, test and dispense applications in production. Cisco is set to deploy the cloud platform together with other companies and some of the business applications that they have developed and dispensed include Active State, Apprenda and Docker. This is in line with Cisco’s expansion into the open source markets where services like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry are being offered. The company is now seeking to build an integrated suite that developers will use in order to create micro-container based services apparatus.