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12 thoughts for Christmas: 1. Growth in data remains on a very steep curve, driven by growth in both services and usage – smart devices create a lot of data and messages to service providers 2. Moore’s Law, Virtualization, Utility computing and effective DC management will mitigate, but can’t solve the problem 3. Increasing regulation, and attention to detail in compliance checking conspire to make Directors’ lives more risky 4. Service Providers in virtually all sectors are moving towards (if they...
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Martin Creaner (TM Forum CEO) blogging on the state of Cloud computing this week pointed out that pretty much all of us are already experiencing Cloud services already. If you use Salesforce.com, or iTunes or Google applications, then you are already a consumer of Cloud services. So what is the big difference between these very widely adopted services and moving a much larger proportion of your business processes outside your firewall? A colleague joked that Cloud computing reminded him of the Eagles...
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As we all get back to work after a glorious summer (except inScotland where it rained solidly for the week I was there), plans arealready underway for an exciting next few months. While Australia lost the Ashes to England, Telstra successfullycompleted their IP/MPLS network inventory using Celona’s nextgeneration Application Data Migration with zero downtime andnear-perfect data quality. Given the high level of complexity both inthe data and the way it affects business users and their processes thiswas...
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There’s a lot of data migration going on - the vast majority of business change programmes involve moving large amounts of complex data around. It doesn’t matter whether these are implementing new or changed processes to drive more efficient operations, integrating customers from an acquired company, supporting new compliance reporting requirements or launching new products and services. With enterprise data storage spiraling ever larger (the average large business will own 8Tb of data...
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Volumes of data continue to grow rapidly - we now frequently talk in terms of Petabytes – AT&T transfers 16Pb of data through its network daily, while Google processes 20Pb of data per day. When such companies upgrade their systems, reorganize or acquire new companies, they face a new scale of problem from previous generations of enterprises. And it isn’t simply a volume problem, because the data they use to manage their operations is frequently inter-related and shared across both...
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Following the TMF Management World event in Nice last week, I take the view that the communications industry is entering a new phase. The last few years have been dominated by news of major players planning massive transformations in networks, services and organization. But from the response to Trudy Norris-Grey’s question in her keynote speech (only 5 out of 150-odd attendees worked for companies actually engaged in such a transformation) it would appear there isn’t that much really...
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Next week the world of Telecoms OSS/BSS professionals gathers in (hopefully) sunny Nice on the Cote d’Azure. We will spend time discussing how the world has changed since we last got together, and how events have affected trends and approaches to managing customers, products and complexity in a very dynamic environment. The TM Forum has led in orchestrating the definition of models and standards for operation, and in fostering innovation in a sector renowned for commercial and technological...
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James Pullen’s OSSLine posting ‘The Top-5 OSS/BSS Integration Things’ http://www.ossline.com/2009/04/the-top-5-ossbss-integration-things.html makes a number of excellent points everyone involved in OSS or BSS software should take very seriously, including his point #4 on Data Without Context. He highlights the issue that different applications and the business processes they support have different needs from data describing the same business entities, and that although you might...
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The process of moving data can speed up service provider transformation and allow them to realize the benefits of their transformation investment much faster. Data migration is all about moving data from one environment to another in an optimal way, with the least amount of business disruption and risk; whether to consolidate applications or to change from one vendor, or version of an application to another, data migration is at the heart of the deployment process. In the Telecom market, OSS/BSS...
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There is an excellent article on the DataMigrationPro website highlighting application data load rates as one of the issues facing enterprise data migration projects today. To summarise, most modern applications don’t allow customers to load data directly to the database, protecting their software with an application programming interface (API) that checks that the data meets strict integrity rules before accepting it. Those API’s are generally orders of magnitude slower to run than raw...
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