By Enrico Montariolo
The evolution of technology can have significant influence on the future success, or failure, of companies that operate within an industry. Traditional communications service providers face this challenge today. The technologies driving this transformation are Cloud, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Communications service providers (CSPs) look at the NFV model and see new ways to accelerate innovation, create competitive advantages, reduce cost and drive new business models.
Successful transformation requires that CSPs also evolve their operating model: evolving related roles, organizational structure, skill sets, processes and culture to reflect the reorientation of the company. We strongly believe that the “As-a-Service” cloud-based operating model is the right operating model to achieve the full benefits of agility, operational efficiency, faster time-to-market and cost reduction, as successfully demonstrated by early adopters like Google, Facebook and Amazon. These early movers are at a tremendous advantage. CSPs may be at risk if they don’t aggressively embrace As-a-Service capabilities.
Read this white paper for a thorough examination of the impact Network Function Virtualization will have on organizational structure and guidance on operating model transformation to NFV Infrastructure as-a-Service.
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Enrico Montariolo is an Operations Architect with the VMware Global Professional Services and is based in Milan, Italy.
