Ericsson announces plans to form global alliance with Amazon Web Services
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* Ericsson extends its cloud transformation services and infrastructure
portfolio to leverage Amazon Web Services
* With Amazon Web Services Cloud, Ericsson to develop solutions help service
providers meet internal efficiency goals and to take advantage of rapid
innovation and opportunities in end-to-end cloud, mobility and Internet of
Things (IoT)
* Telstra is the first Ericsson customer to agree to host a joint cloud
innovation center with Ericsson
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), today announces plans to form a global business,
technology and services alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate
cloud transformation for telecoms service providers.
New technologies such as mobile broadband and the cloud have transformed the
competitive battleground for service providers. Today's leading telecoms
companies seek to capitalize on new opportunities such as IoT and big data
analytics and at the same time, leverage the latest technologies to improve
productivity and efficiency, increase agility, reduce complexity and risk, as
well as create unique value for their customers.
Ericsson is working with AWS to help service providers seize these
opportunities, drive the convergence of mobile infrastructure and cloud and give
application developers and service providers new capabilities that accelerate
innovation and enrich the Networked Society.
As part of this announcement, Ericsson is creating a global team of experts
focused on the AWS Cloud and opening cloud innovation centers with customers,
and AWS is supporting Ericsson in this effort. Ericsson will contribute
expertise from its 25,000 R&D engineers and 66,000-person service workforce -
more than 17,000 of whom are consultants and systems integrators, delivering
1,500 projects per year around the world.
Ericsson will establish cloud innovation centers with service providers and has
already started work with Australian operator Telstra, who will host the first
cloud innovation center in their Gurrowa Innovation Lab in Melbourne, Australia.
Ericsson will leverage AWS' services and expertise to work closely with service
providers to implement a cloud adoption framework to fit their unique business
objectives. The Ericsson teams will consist of program directors, solutions
architects and system engineers who are trained on AWS and Ericsson technologies
and bring together deep service provider industry and cloud domain expertise.
AWS is supporting Ericsson in this effort with a broad range of resources that
may include solutions architects, professional services and training. The
companies' efforts are designed to accelerate cloud adoption through cloud
transformation programs, data center consolidation and application migration.
Additionally, Ericsson will use AWS services and expertise to develop solutions
enabling service providers to build new capabilities and introduce attractive
new cloud-related offerings. Examples include:
* End-to-end security and data traffic management from mobile networks and on-
premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud
* Trusted cloud and workload management across on-premises infrastructure and
the AWS Cloud
* Gateway services for AWS storage services resident at communications service
providers, that help maintain local regulation and compliance requirements
Vish Nandlall, Chief Technology Officer, Telstra says: "The industry is shifting
towards an architecture driven by cloud economics and flexibility. Adoption of
hybrid clouds requires a secure transmission network linking on-premises to the
cloud to provide a chain of custody for mission critical enterprise data.
Telstra's vision is to build a trusted network service for mission critical
cloud data, and we are excited to explore the opportunity of bringing this
vision to life with Ericsson and AWS. The Cloud Innovation Center at Gurrowa
intends to bring together cloud experts from Ericsson, AWS and Telstra to
encourage cloud adoption and the development of new business opportunities for
Telstra and our customers."
Terry Wise, Vice President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services,
Inc. says: "Service providers are seeing explosive growth due to the rapid
adoption of mobile applications and IoT, which is driving the need to think
differently about infrastructure and ecosystems. Communications service
providers are uniquely positioned to capture the upsides of the cloud adoption
wave going on in the market. Ericsson's new Cloud Innovation Centers, leveraging
AWS service and expertise, are designed to empower communications service
providers to accelerate innovation within their organizations and rapidly
achieve the agility and cost optimization benefits of using AWS."
Anders Lindblad, Head of Business Unit Cloud & IP, Ericsson, says: "AWS is the
world's leader in cloud computing with a highly-reliable, scalable, and secure
global infrastructure. Ericsson has always taken great ideas, industrialized
them, and made them available in every country. Building upon AWS' platform, we
will drive new growth opportunities across the service provider industry."
For more information see www.ericsson.com/hyperscale/aws
Ericsson at Mobile World Congress 2016
During Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Ericsson will showcase its
unique industry insights, the latest innovation and inspirational discussions
that enable powerful new business opportunities. We are in the midst of the
societal transformation we call the Networked Society: a society in which
mobility, broadband and cloud empower every person and every industry to reach
their full potential. Opportunity is everywhere, and companies are transforming
according to the role they have chosen to play in the value chains and
ecosystems of the Networked Society.
Join us in our Hall (Hall 2, Stand 2N60) to learn about 5G, the Internet of
Things and cloud, and to discuss the impact digital transformation can have on
people, business and society.
Follow the conversation online:
www.twitter.com/ericsson
www.linkedin.com/company/ericsson
NOTES TO EDITORS
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Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society - a world leader in
communications technology and services. Our long-term relationships with every
major telecom operator in the world allow people, business and society to
fulfill their potential and create a more sustainable future.
Our services, software and infrastructure - especially in mobility, broadband
and the cloud - are enabling the telecom industry and other sectors to do better
business, increase efficiency, improve the user experience and capture new
opportunities.
With approximately 115,000 professionals and customers in 180 countries, we
combine global scale with technology and services leadership. We support
networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. Forty percent of the
world's mobile traffic is carried over Ericsson networks. And our investments in
research and development ensure that our solutions - and our customers - stay in
front.
Founded in 1876, Ericsson has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Net sales
in 2015 were SEK 246.9 billion (USD 29.4 billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ
OMX stock exchange in Stockholm and the NASDAQ in New York.
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