Univa Solutions For Telecommunications (Telco)

Powering the massive processes required for telecommunications (Telco) carriers to run their business is a constant challenge. From billing system processing to customer statement generation, Telco companies consume vast quantities of compute power daily – and experience sharp increases in demand at peak billing cycle times.

Most Telcos don't have even the capability to access capacity and utilization information across these disparate systems, let alone to optimize their use.

In addition, Telcos are looking for new service opportunities to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. These services must be robust, scalable and above all proven.

With Univa grid and cluster solutions, these challenges can be met in a reliable, cost-effective manner. By virtualizing business-critical applications and automating their provisioning across a shared pool of capacity, according to established policies and SLAs, companies can access the power they need when they need it.

The benefits of Univa's proven solutions are significant, including:

• Faster job processing and reduced turnaround times
• Increased business agility, with the capability to respond rapidly to new business requirements and support new initiatives
• Improved utilization of existing resources, for higher return on invested capital (ROIC)
• Assured performance for business-critical functions
• Dramatically reduced infrastructure costs and operational expenses

Only Univa also offers the capability to enable Telcos to offer application delivery as a managed service to customers, for increased top-line revenue and competitive differentiation.

The challenges of providing the massive amounts of compute power required for telecommunications (Telco) carriers to run their business are many. Billing system processing, customer statement generation, and capacity and utilization analysis consume great amounts of power, particularly at peak times. And as Telcos seek new opportunities to differentiate themselves in the marketplace, they must develop services that are scalable and reliable.

Univa helps Telcos meet these challenges by virtualizing business-critical applications and automating provisioning across a shared pool of capacity, according to established policies and SLAs, companies can access the power they need when they need it.

Our Telco clients are finding more and more ways to leverage grid and cluster solutions including:

• Application Virtualization – The infrastructure required to support large enterprise applications is characterized by silos of resources dedicated to a specific application or application component, with several dedicated environments for development, test, staging, and production. This leads to huge server sprawl. For example, it is not uncommon for SAP applications to have 100+ dedicated servers within their environment. Many of these servers are not fully utilized except during periods when demand occurs.
• Dynamic Server Provisioning – Most Telcos operate IT organization with large server estates that are very heterogeneous – it is not uncommon to find several different operating systems, several OS versions, and multiple system architectures in such an environment. This complexity is sometimes driven by unique application requirements and contributes directly to the high costs associated with data center operations.
• Dynamic Virtual Machine Management – Many IT enterprises are engaged in server consolidation using virtual machines, where a single physical server is partitioned into multiple virtual servers each of which hosts one or more applications. While this type of virtualization technology serves to reduce the number of servers, a number of issues still remain including the time-consuming and expensive process of manual provisioning.

In addition, Univa's alliances with key software vendors ensure that your most critical applications will operate at a highly increased rate of productivity.

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Univa has the proven ability to reduce infrastructure costs for supporting high-volume business-critical applications while ensuring application service levels are met. We also provide a unique solution that enables Telcos to build their own managed application service.

Specific use cases include:

• Reducing Complexity and Operating Costs
• Building a Managed Service Offering

Reducing Complexity and Operating Costs

The size and complexity of data centers required to power a Telco's processing needs is massive. These facilities, with their expensive hardware and business-critical applications, are costly to own and operate – and initiatives like server consolidation and virtualization only go part of the way toward streamlining the environment.

With Univa solutions, companies can simplify the data center environments and drive out unnecessary costs, so budget can be spent supporting new business initiatives.

Building a Managed Service Offering

For Telcos looking to offer managed application delivery to their customers, only Univa has the proven capability to build a scalable, cost-effective service for SLA-based application delivery. Our solutions enable Telcos to deliver mission-critical applications as a service to internal or external consumers in a cost-effective manner. Univa's policy- and SLA -based capabilities let Telcos leverage one or more pools of shared resources to deliver resources to applications automatically when and where the need it.