"Ericsson literally many years ahead of the cloud crowd" according to 451 Research.
August 17 2015 - 10:00AM
- Ericsson's cloud technology leadership to be
showcased at IDF15 in San Francisco
- As a world leading adopter of Intel Rack Scale
Architecture (RSA) Ericsson presents 2016 plans and vision for HDS
8000, software defined datacenters and cloud
- Announcing the first collaboration on
implementing Intel RSA enabled datacenters with South Korean
operator SK Telecom
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) will demonstrate key
technologies from its cloud infrastructure portfolio at the Intel
Developer Forum 2015 (IDF15), an industry and media event held
August 18-20 in San Francisco, US.
The event will showcase Ericsson's cloud
technology leadership to a broad industry and media audience, and
will highlight the strength of the company's open developer
eco-system including strategic partners Apcera, Guardtime,
Cleversafe and Intel.
Anders Lindblad, Head of Business Unit Cloud &
IP, says: "Cloud technology is rapidly disrupting the ICT industry,
and we see IDF15 as a unique opportunity to engage with
decision-makers and developers in this critical area."
"We look forward to showing Ericsson's
industry-leading cloud portfolio. Combining our Networked Society
vision and long experience of designing, deploying and running the
world's most advanced communication systems, makes us a highly
relevant ICT change-maker as the transformation of the industry
accelerates," says Lindblad.
At the event, Ericsson will also announce a close
cooperation with South Korean operator SK Telecom. The partnership
will establish software-defined data centers built on Ericsson's
HDS 8000 datacenter system and IntelĀ® Rack Scale Architecture,
leading to the creation of automated and TCO efficient hyperscale
cloud infrastructure.
"RSA is the key technology to make the cloud
extremely scalable, flexible and TCO efficient. SK Telecom believes
this partnership will accelerate SK Telecom's software-defined data
center vision to be realized," says Alex Jinsung Choi, Chief
Technology Officer at SK Telecom
451 Research concludes that with the Ericsson's
HDS 8000, Ericsson is just doing what everyone else is talking
about. What is very different is its timing: real systems this
year, literally many years ahead of the crowd." according to Peter
Christy, Research Director, Networking at 451 Research.
In support of openness in telecom transformation,
Ericsson has recently joined the IntelĀ® Network Builders community
and will show innovative network functions virtualization (NFV) and
software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. The members of the
Intel Network Builders program collaborate on accelerating network
transformation through the adoption of SDN and NFV.
First held in 1987, the Intel Developers Forum is
a biannual or triannual event that gathers developers and
technologists from across the ICT industry. Ericsson is a gold
sponsor of IDF15.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Media kit:
http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/press/mediakits/cloud
Ericsson HDS 8000:
http://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/products/hds-8000
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