The future is built on cloud and container technologies: Why telecommunication providers need to prepare for cloud-native innovation

The telecommunications industry will benefit greatly from cloud and container technologies. Only about a quarter of telecommunications companies have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy already, and many others are beginning to move from network function virtualization (NFV) architectures to cloud-native approaches based on containers and microservices to further increase speed, efficiency, and agility.


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Analyst:

Jennifer Clark

Principal Analyst – Cloud Infrastructure & Edge Computing

Jennifer Pigg Clark is Principal Analyst with Heavy Reading covering Cloud Infrastructure and Edge Computing. Clark provides actionable insight into service provider evolution, examining the challenges and opportunities facing network operators as they move towards 5G and IoT with an increasingly virtualized and cloud native infrastructure. Clark examines the solutions and technology reshaping the telco data center, technologies such as Edge Computing, Open Source, OpenStack, container networking, Network Orchestration, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and SD-WAN. Clark started her industry research career with the Yankee Group, which was acquired by 451 Research in 2013. She held the role of Sr. Vice President at Yankee Group. Prior to joining Yankee Group, Clark was Manager of Network Planning and Strategy for Wang Laboratories'corporate data network. She began her career at Wang with responsibility for the domestic and international roll-out of Wang's packet network, connecting more than 250 locations in 14 countries. Before joining Wang, she was a member of the IT research and development division of Commercial Union Insurance Companies. Clark is a highly regarded speaker at industry seminars and conferences and is frequently cited by the commercial and trade press. She has been a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a member of the IEEE. She holds a B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College.

Speaker:

Shujaur Mufti

Senior Manager, Global Partners Solution Architecture

Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, and Edge

Red Hat, Inc.

Shujaur Mufti is a Senior Manager in Red Hat's Telecommunications, Entertainment and Media (TME) Partner Organization. He is responsible for managing a global team of technical professionals, Partner SAs, to develop and deploy Cloud technologies utilizing Red Hat products and services, architecting a full stack of end-to-end solutions including partner products, from ideation to production with joint offers, globally and in close collaboration with Red Hat Geo/Regional and product stakeholders.

Shujaur has over twenty years of experience working in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2022, he spent fourteen years at T-Mobile US leading high performing engineering teams, enabling 3GPP/non-3GPP architectures and technologies in the Telco 4G/5G domain. In addition, he led NFV Cloud strategy contributing to the company’s transition from legacy networks to the software defined cloud infrastructure. Shujaur has been granted over 50 Technology Patents in the US, Europe, and other foreign countries. Due to his thought leadership and influence in the Telco industry, he has been selected as IBM Industry Diamond for Telecom, Media, and Entertainment.