Nokia: Don't Be Too Quick To Dismiss Private Cloud Savings
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One reason it would do so is that Nokia is one of several commercial vendors of OpenStack, the open source set of software that can be used to assemble a self-service, horizontally scalable cloud in the enterprise data center. Nokia offers a range of consulting and private cloud building services and claims it has worked with half of the Global 50 top companies to reach its conclusions. Furthermore, IDC has inspected Nokias Enterprise Private Cloud Total Cost of Ownership Model and concluded it is satisfied "that the assumptions, all supported by third party references, are reasonable and comprehensive enough to establish a fair comparison of total costs of private cloud and legacy environments," said Randy Berry, IDC VP of business value strategy. The model does not require a forklift removal of legacy systems but assumes the private cloud "sits atop existing IT infrastructure as an overlay." The Nokia approach imposes a leaf and spine switching system on the data center network, as explained in this white paper.
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