Not to forget that there are specific pain points within the underlying IT infrastructure for which we often could not devote time to formulate long term solutions. Most of the challenges that the current data centers are facing include:

— Ballooning labor costs
— Sky-high energy consumption
— Growing Demands from users
— Chaotic data silos
— Exponential growth in data volume

The hidden cost in responding to these pain points is business innovation and at this point the role of cloud computing becomes important.

> “Cloud ICT”, Cloud Information and Computing Technologies, is a more inclusive term to describe the development of communications networks.
> “Mobile communications” or mobile computing and Cloud computing are selective perspectives on the trends.

Cloud ICT is a pervasive development that scales across a variety of device types and networks. The common threads are IP based methods and extends across common network standards. Because the efforts are comprised of multiple standards setting organizations (SSOs), special interest groups, industry consortium, individual company developed cloud computing service environments, multiple OS platforms, selective perspectives, and need to scale across multiple devices including screen resolutions, processing power and memory and storage capabilities, the efforts can be somewhat unwieldy and conflicting.

However diverse the efforts are, the interests of organizations and individual users and developers compel agreement on common methods for network and computing resource development.

A point of clarification: Cloud Computing is a term first adopted by the IT industry which stems from their perspective. I believe Cloud ICT is a more appropriate term for the overall effort and Cloud 4G is appropriate for the ‘mobile’ wireless industry. In this viewpoint, ‘all networks are mobile’ and all mobile networks are part of computing environments. We can no longer separate mobile applications and devices from ‘computing’ networks and devices. If we consider many of the simplest of mobile devices today we see ability to interface with web based content. Email is often accessed on mobile devices some of which have little processing power or memory to run applications. Nonetheless, the content runs on the web-computing environment.

I am working on a study of Cloud ICT from the perspective of next generation wireless networks. This will take a look at SONs, SDWN network architectures and methods and how NG fits into Cloud ICT. If there are heads of departments and analyst relations folks interested, I am setting up ccs over the several days.

- Robert Syputa
http://www.cloud4g.com
Partner, Maravedis