Today mobile operator Vodafone Group Plc and Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud entered a new six-year strategic partnership to drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide.
In a significant expansion of their existing agreement, Vodafone and Google Cloud will jointly build a powerful new integrated data platform with the added capability of processing and moving huge volumes of data globally from multiple systems into the cloud.
Therefore, about 1,000 workers in Britain, Spain, and the United States will be asked by both companies to create “Nucleus”, a new cloud-based storage and analytics portal which will host Vodafone’s data. The platform, called ‘Nucleus’, will house a new system – ‘Dynamo’ – which will drive data throughout Vodafone to enable it to more quickly offer its customers new, personalized products and services across multiple markets.
Dynamo will allow Vodafone to tailor new connectivity services for homes and businesses through the release of smart network features, such as providing a sudden broadband speed boost.
Nucleus will be capable of processing around 50 terabytes of data a day within the cloud, Vodafone said in a statement. “Both companies will drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide,” the statement added.
The news was first reported by the Financial Times on Sunday. As part of the six-year agreement, both companies will also develop a system called ‘Dynamo’, which can extract and transport data across different countries where the British-based telecom company operates. According to the FT report, the two companies also want to sell consultancy services to other multinational businesses looking to move huge amounts of data to the cloud in the future.
