Ericsson has established a new Cloud Lab in Germany to support operators and industry customers in Europe with faster innovation through all stages in the development cycle towards cloud and virtualization. The Cloud Lab includes a number of Ericsson's core products such as Ericsson HDS 8000, Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage, Cloud Manager based on ECM product, and offerings for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) addressing both the IT and Telecom Cloud environments. According to Ericsson, the Aachen-based Cloud Lab is established to include early technology demos, testing, verification and pre-packaging up to live deployments of new services. Ericsson said that its cloud portfolio enables digital transformation by allowing for both fast innovation and global governance for telecom operators and enterprises. The Cloud Lab provides an opportunity for Ericsson’s customers to address these issues, through live demos, deploying and testing key technologies including cloud, virtualization and the increasingly important management and orchestration area.
Valter D’Avino, Ericsson Head of Western & Central Europe
By developing these cloud solutions in cooperation with our customers, we will provide them the opportunity to speed up the deployment of cloud technology. This means we will more quickly experience the benefits of cloud, such as shorter time to market for new services within Internet of Things for example, and a more agile IT infrastructure.
