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NEW DELHI: Every industry wants to ensure faster innovations, flexible resources and an economical way of scaling up their business and the telecom industry is no different. Cloud computing, allows all of these and more using servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analysis and intelligence. It is the availability of all such resources and computing power without direct active management by the user. There is an increasing need for telecom services to evolve beyond network connectivity and offer distinctive services to their users. This is where cloud computing comes to good use in the industry.

Uses of cloud computing as applicable in the telecommunications industry as per IBM:

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): While Iaas delivers computing, network and storage resources to consumers on demand, PaaS provides a complete cloud platform including hardware, software and infrastructure for developing, running and managing applications. It is easy to use cloud computing services on pay-per-use schemes enabling companies to save costs on developing their own IT infrastructure for the same. Additionally, cloud is easily accessible and companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure offer IaaS services along with their cloud computing services.

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Test and Development: Performing testing and development in-house require an extensive budget which is an unnecessary expenditure given that cloud computing exists and can speed up this process of installation and configuration of development platforms while eliminating costs. With cloud-based development tools, creating apps and software has become faster, easier and more cost-effective.

Big Data Analytics: Cloud computing can also help companies to gain powerful insights that help optimize their businesses through big data analytics. Telcos deal with a massive amount of data collected each day. Cloud computing allows them to tap into vast amounts of both structured and unstructured data to extract business insights which can be further used to increase ARPU. Artificial intelligence and machine learning, two capabilities that are available due to cloud computing, make it easier for companies to monitor consumer behavior and suggest plans to increase revenue accordingly.

Cloud Storage: At the very basic level, cloud serves as a great medium of storage wherein data can be automatically saved. Organizations, rather than creating their own data centers for storage can pay for the amount of cloud storage they are consuming. This helps them stay away from the pains of maintaining storage infrastructure and makes speed, scalability and security of data an accessible reality.

Disaster Recovery and Data Backup: Disaster recovery solutions come at a much lower cost with cloud storage and cloud computing. Backing up data has always been time consuming and complex. Cloud-based backup makes this process relatively easier for companies. Organizations can easily dispatch data to different locations now without thinking of compromising on security, availability and capacity.

While there is enough incentive for companies to use cloud computing increasingly as it makes daily processes a lot more hassle free, there are also certain risks that it comes with, ranging from costs to cybersecurity. But these risks can be dealt with the help of trusted cloud service providers. The recent innovations with the use of cloud computing in the form of SingTels VAaaS and Jio and Microsoft Azures collaboration to develop cloud infrastructure and services are green signals in the favor of cloud computing in the telecom industry.

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