{"id":22436,"date":"2016-05-11T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=252622"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:33:47","slug":"amdocs-and-microsoft-team-up-to-launch-cloud-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amdocs-and-microsoft-team-up-to-launch-cloud-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Amdocs and Microsoft team up to launch Cloud-Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/metalcloud_lowres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-190492 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/metalcloud_lowres-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"metalcloud_lowres\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>Amdocs and Microsoft have collaborated to create an enterprise connectivity and applications solution, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/telecoms.com\/\">Telecoms.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amdocs Cloud-Fusion will, according to Amdocs, enable the development of cloud service offerings including bandwidth, WAN optimisation and the delivery of committed SLAs. The solution combines Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud infrastructure and Amdocs\u2019 NFV-ready Network Cloud Service Orchestrator, which also lends it the ability to design and deliver VNFs from any network vendor. The combination, therefore, allow access to Azure\u2019s business services and third-party Microsoft Azure Marketplace solutions, Amdocs says.<\/p>\n<p>The Cloud-Fusion platform is intended to provide unified management, monitoring, orchestration and assurance, enabling service providers to automate fulfilment and operations of cloud-based services. The hopeful outcome is to improve customer experience<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday 17 percent of all businesses each have more than 1,000 virtual machines supporting a range of business-critical applications that reside in the public cloud, up from 13 percent in 2015,\u201d said Ann Hatchell, head of network marketing at Amdocs. \u201cService providers can offer a one-stop shop for differentiated hybrid cloud services with service guarantees for enterprise customers, and streamline end-to-end service management across telco and public cloud environments, thereby improving service agility and reducing complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cService providers will be able to capture new revenue streams from their business segment customer base by adding cloud services and providing access to Microsoft Azure\u2019s value-added business services and Azure Marketplace\u2019s solutions through secure service provider networks,\u201d said Bob De Haven, GM for Worldwide Communications and Media at Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amdocs and Microsoft have collaborated to create an enterprise connectivity and applications solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3992,1989,412,1976],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-22436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amdocs","category-enterprise-it","category-microsoft-azure","category-news-analysis","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22437,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22436\/revisions\/22437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}