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Ericsson Cloud System gets hyperscale upgrade

• Demand for cloud is growing but concerns around security and governance are slowing adoption.
• Ericsson Cloud System adds new software and hardware to ensure highly governed, secure and hyperscale cloud is possible while increasing speed and control.

For the operator it enables the opportunity to provide competitive cloud based offerings focused on modern, automated IT, including operator cloud transformation for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), IT and commercial cloud.

Demand for cloud agility, operational scale and associated economics is growing but existing concerns around security and governance are slowing the full adoption of cloud by the world's largest enterprises.

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today introduces new software and hardware to its Ericsson Cloud System to mitigate this need, creating new disruptive levels of performance, operations, compliance,  economics and can work across multiple clouds to achieve competitive differentiation and value-add for operators and their large enterprise customers.

New products in Ericsson Cloud System include; Ericsson HDS 8000 (Hyperscale Datacenter System), built on Intel® Rack Scale Architecture, Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage and Ericsson Continuum ® delivering the world's best policy driven platform for hybrid cloud leveraging Ericsson's investment in Apcera.

Data, applications and distributed cloud infrastructures can now be automated and governed for security and compliance, meeting global enterprise policy requirements and geo specific regulations. A platform that lets business build trust in their systems as quickly as they embrace new technology.

Ericsson HDS 8000 is a new generation of hyperscale datacenter systems that uses Intel® Rack Scale Architecture for a disaggregated hardware approach to dramatically improve efficiency, utilization, automation and total cost of ownership.

Hans Vestberg, Ericsson President and CEO says: "Technology change is exponential in the ICT industry but investment in infrastructure cannot be. With Intel and other industry leaders we are bringing a hyperscale approach across both software and hardware, we are re-inventing the future data center concept from a total architecture and economics perspective."