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INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION SOFTWARE HELPS ETISALAT MOVE TOWARDS AUTONOMOUS NETWORK The deployment further reduce the time Etisalat takes to introduce new services by 70 to 90 percent DWDM Transport network orchestration in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region with software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena , forging a path to create one of the world’s most adaptive and self-optimising networks. Blue Planet’s intelligent automation software supports in accelerating Etisalat’s digital transformation journey in line with UAE’s vision to create a more competitive digital economy.
Haitham Abdulrazzak
Chief Technology Officer, Etisalat Etisalat, one of the leading telecommunications operators in emerging markets recognized by Ookla Speedtest as the world’s fastest mobile network in 2020, has deployed the first end-to-end multi-vendor
Haitham Abdulrazzak, Chief Technology Officer, Etisalat, , said: “Etisalat as a global leader in many technologies and innovations continuously aims to enhance its leadership, position, network efficiency and provide superior customer experience, and a “zero-touch network target” is a tool to achieve this. Transport network is in the heart of all autonomous networks, and the deployment of Blue Planet solution is a major step in our strategy to create more
agile on demand adaptive networks.” The Blue Planet software has been designed to support Etisalat’s specific intelligent automation requirements and has been implemented in close collaboration with Etisalat. By reducing manual operations and automating order-to-service processes, Blue Planet supports Etisalat to further reduce the time it takes to introduce new services by 70 to 90 percent. This efficiency is achieved via the Blue Planet Multi Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) at the Transport DWDM Network level, which is integrated with Etisalat’s existing OSS inventory and automation systems to execute closed loop automation. Blue Planet also provides automated fiber diversity by integrating with a GIS system, while orchestrating service provisioning across the multi-vendor and multi-domain WDM network.
CLOUD SERVICES CONSUMPTION WILL CONTINUE TO GROW, SAYS NUTANIX CLOUD USAGE REPORT 70% of cloud spend comes from IaaS consisting of Compute, Network & Storage
ogy in turbulent times. Whilst for financial services, spend hit a low in the early part of 2020 but quickly bounced back with growth as high as 34% for the month of April.
Nutanix has announced findings of a new report analysing how cloud usage trends have changed throughout 2019 and 2020. 2020 has been an extraordinary year, re-defining ‘normal life’ and following significant growth in cloud consumption across many vertical sectors in 2019, the report highlights a shift in consumption across some industries this year due to COVID-19. However, whilst for some industries growth has retracted, a push toward digital and working from home has resulted in sectors including tech, media and telecoms seeing an increase in cloud consumption, with consistent QoQ growth through the first half of 2020.
Regarding cloud consumption by services, Compute continues to represent the largest service spend across all segments. 70% of cloud spend comes from IaaS consisting of Compute, Network & Storage. Another observation from the report showed that Enterprise customers are spending the most on analytics and emerging services, with the majority of that spend in Azure.
Looking at trends across vertical sectors, whilst COVID-19 led to an increase in the adoption of cloud services amongst the tech, media and telecoms industries, manufactur-
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Aaron White
Regional Director, ME, Nutanix ing and retail saw a drop of over 40% for cloud usage in the first quarter of 2020. However, these sectors did experience growth on cloud spending at a searing pace in 2019, with a 363% increase in the third quarter of 2019. In the health sector, the report shows that cloud consumption has been volatile, highlighting the elasticity of cloud technol-
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“In times of crisis, the value in adopting cloud technologies is evident,” stated Aaron White, Regional Director, Middle East at Nutanix. “As this report shows, whilst the ever-changing landscape of 2020 was always likely to cause uncertainty in cloud spending, it is very encouraging to see growth and stability across a number of sectors and we expect this resilience to continue.”
