While public cloud offers flexibility and scalability for many businesses, the cost benefit for telcos is just not adding up, according to Richard Doughty. Does opting for public cloud lead to infrastructure costs that are significantly higher compared with on-premises or private cloud models?
There are undoubtedly many situations where the flexibility, ease-of-access, and ubiquity that public cloud offers are well suited to the needs of enterprises, be it for start-ups hoping for hockey stick growth, bursty businesses with high load variance, or projects with a short lifespan where long-term infrastructure commitment is to be avoided.
This variety of applications is why the option of public cloud has created a lot of excitement over the last few years, with many noisy proponents. It’s undoubtedly driven a lot of architectural change in software, introducing microservices and containerisation that make it easier to deploy and operate in these environments, which is a good thing.
Cerillion plc (LON:CER) is a leading provider of billing, charging and customer management systems with more than 20 years’ experience delivering its solutions across a broad range of industries including the telecommunications, finance, utilities and transportation sectors.
