According to the Thales Group, by the end of 2022, there were more than a billion 5G connected consumers across the world*. The Telco industry is getting ready for continued 5G expansion and while there is a lot of competition in this space, the eventual market leaders are probably going to be the providers who adapt quickest to the change. Embracing its role as an emerging provider in Norway, Ice Norway is very well positioned for this growth with the help of VMware.
Ice Norway is Norway’s third largest telco, but it has big business plans to become the second largest provider in the next three years. Ice Norway recognized the need to be agile, leaner and quicker than competition. Its goals included:
- Build an efficient IT infrastructure for multi-cloud environments.
- Commit as few resources as possible for everyday operations to focus on innovation.
- Bring consistency and automation for higher efficiency.
- Create a scalable platform capable of supporting new services quickly.
- Freedom to make the best cloud choices.
Ice Norway chose to partner with VMware deploying VMware Cloud Foundation to make itself a true multi-cloud company. Ice has a telco cloud environment, and they use all the major public clouds. With VMware Cloud Foundation, Ice Norway was able to achieve workload mobility and extend its secure environments into Azure and AWS and back to on-premises as required. Ice Norway has already completed several migrations to VMware Cloud Foundation and with zero downtime and zero impact to its customers. Ice continues to modernize their applications, breaking them up into micro-services leveraging VMware Tanzu application services.
To learn more about Ice Norway’s journey, visit: Ice Norway Case Study
*Reference: Thales Group; 5G Progress Report December 2022.
