Telecom companies have consumed only 48 percent of the cloud they have committed to, yet seek to secure more, according to a report released late last

Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS

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2024-10-22 12:30:04

Telecom companies have consumed only 48 percent of the cloud they have committed to, yet seek to secure more, according to a report released late last week by Infosys.

The outsourcing giant's "Cloud Radar – Telecom Industry Report" is compiled from over 400 industry insiders, from mid-level management to execs to C-suites. It concludes that "the industry is significantly increasing cloud spending."

The fear is that without more cloud, telcos are not full optimizing their 5G networks efficiently – and consequently not meeting the high-speed and low-latency needed for IoT and edge computing applications.

Therefore they continue to buy – even as the product is not fully used – in the hopes it will reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and improve scalability.

They're prevented from meeting full utilization, according to Infosys, by the challenges of migration, competition and security.