Business Service Applications Tops TT Poll

True to the roots of web-scale IT, business services applications were the runaway winner in a Telco Transformation poll.

Business services applications garnered 59% of the votes in the poll that asked: "Where have web-scale operations and services had the biggest impact for service providers?"

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Facebook and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) were the leading pioneers of web-scale IT for cloud services. Communications service providers have started to adopt -- or adapt -- some of those same web-scale principles, particularly in their virtualization efforts.

"Network virtualization" finished second in the poll (28%) while "prepping for 5G" was third (10%). "Enabling microservices" was dead last at 3%.

While "enabling microservices" didn't resonate with Telco Transformation voters, AT&T's Tom Anschutz, distinguished member of the company's technical staff, said "that web-scale and microservices nearly go hand in hand." (See Anschutz on AT&T's Use of Web-Scale IT.)

Organizations are tapping into web-scale IT to virtualize application workloads in their network architectures and data centers in order to deliver cloud capabilities to enterprises. Virtualized data centers benefit from web-scale IT because they can dynamically scale up or scale down based on demand while also lowering costs.

According to Infoholic Research , the web-scale IT market is projected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21% during the forecast period of 2016–2022.

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• Improving Web-Scale Networks With Software-Driven Flexibility

— Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation