Avoid moving from a dumb pipe to a dumb cloud

13.09.2012

The New Service Provider will put all the pieces together through acquisition or partnership. Critical elements to success include:

" Cloud operations software stack integrating the cloud operating system, , operations, management and billing

" Software-driven service automation, workload orchestration and performance-on-demand

" Inter-data center cloud on/off ramps and networking infrastructure, with hypervisor network and distributed control plane

" Network operations and management