Digital Transformation with APM 4.0

Data is fueling a new digital economy and compelling companies to rapidly adopt modern technologies such as Machine Learning, AI and Cognitive Science. Consequently, assembling the right blend of data from disparate sources using agile and flexible techniques like logical data warehousing to create purposeful, accessible insights is one of the greatest strategic tasks before us.

5G and the applications it enables, including IoT, requires a significant upgrade and overhaul of carrier infrastructure beyond the radio networks (RAN). To support the diversity of applications, explosion in number and types of devices, capacity and scale of traffic, CSPs (communications service providers) are turning to adoption of data center innovation adapted and re-developed for telco networks. Virtualization, software-defined controls, distributed computing technologies in the form of NFV, SDN and MEC play key roles in the new telco infrastructure. One of the key technologies is SDN, which is important to creating flexibility in the network to support 5G constructs such as network slicing. SDN���s centralized management and distributed controls over complex software-defined networks across the mobile infrastructure is also a key element in 5G scalability.

Behind any successful implementation and go-live is a sequence of detailed steps and procedures that must be followed. Success in the first step relies largely on your ability to understand the complete scope of work and your objectives for the project in addition to your ability to implement effective strategies to manage and secure your virtualization investment.

Raja Roychoudhury, Head, Infrastructure Software Services at MindCraft, explains how IBM Cloud Private can be used to leverage on-premises private cloud infrastructure to run your cloud-ready application.