Author: Robert Cohen If telcos are to compete with the Amazons, Googles, and Microsofts of the world in providing customers with Cloud services, they will need to transform their networks to incorporate a number of new capabilities. Telcos plan to become ...

Author: Robert Cohen This Strategic Perspective offers a vision of what the telco of 2017 will look like. It assumes that most telcos will transform themselves into “cloud services-providing” telcos by 2017. The analysis examines trends that will lead to ...

Author: Robert Cohen Telcos are already playing significant roles in Cloud IT and business services, but there remains a long road for them to travel. To play a central role in providing Cloud services, telcos will need to transform themselves in a numbe ...

Author: Robert Cohen Challenged by declining wireless and broadband revenues, telcos have sought to become important players in Cloud services. Initially, they focused on hosting services, often tied to putting applications used by large businesses in th ...

Author: Robert Cohen Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and HP have created an initiative to help service providers play a much larger role in delivering cloud services to businesses and consumers.  ALU describes CloudBand, its foundation for a new class of ‘carr ...

Author: Robert Cohen A number of cloud providers are developing a broad range of applications that they will sell to small and medium-sized businesses as well as alliances with systems integrators that can help firms move their apps into the cloud. The s ...

Authors: Robert Cohen, Bruce Guptill “Cloud-in-a-box” solutions from telcos and other providers will vastly increase SMB Cloud usage, and enable significant counter-cyclical economic shifts, by making it easier for SMBs to obtain and utilize private-Clou ...