For telecoms focused on building out their edge cloud capabilities, one of the challenges is how to support their enterprise customers by delivering a application deployment experience to the edge.
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, cloud management solution provider UBiqube launched its integrated MSActivator and Cloudclapp solution which enables telecom operators to extend their enterprise customers’ CI/CD pipelines with edge deployment as a cloud option.
Both telcos and hyperscale providers are rapidly deploying cloud edge infrastructure capabilities, yet greater enterprise adoption requires that any edge architecture become an easy deployment option for their IT teams. This requires that service provider solution set up and management is naturally inserted into the enterprise DevOps fabric as well as its CI/CD tooling. The UBiqube integrated MSActivator and Cloudclapp solution offers a tight coupling between the engineering of an edge cloud and the deployment of applications over it. The solution bridges the gap between the enterprise IT teams’ expectations in terms of experience and best practices in app design and deployment and the telco’s ability to assemble best-of-breed technologies for a differentiated edge offering.
Cloudclapp is a visual cloud application deployment layer natively designed for hybrid clouds, including edge. It also offers comprehensive cloud lifecycle management including security, compliance, cost and energy. MSActivator is the infrastructure-as-code framework telcos leverage to assemble and automate an edge solution.
“Both hyperscale cloud providers and telcos are developing cloud solutions at the edge,” says Nabil Souli, founder and CEO of UBiqube. “However, large enterprises are considering edge deployments in the context of their hybrid and multicloud strategies. One criteria for hosting an application at the edge could include latency, but the consensus is that this should not come at the expense of vendor and provider neutrality which is a fundamental driver for transitioning to hybrid clouds. It is therefore paramount that telcos offer their customers an edge solution that is easy to blend with other cloud alternatives to ensure fast adoption.”
“This is what we’re offering our telecom customers with the integrated MSActivator and Cloudclapp solution,” continues Souli. “It’s a way to manage diverse infrastructure environments through a straightforward developer interface that can be offered directly to telecom customers. It offers a dramatic shift in the market dynamics telecoms face, and it’s an opportunity to reap solid returns on their investments in 5G and edge.”
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