Figure 1: CSP’s expenditure by geography, Source: Wipro estimates based on Infonetics Research, 2011

Figure 2: Reference Architecture: OSS Cloud for Ti

Solutions need to be tailored and aligned for cloud environments before they can fully leverage the benefits of a cloud hosted OSS.
The overheads of managing the OSS applications prevent service providers from achieving economies of scale, significantly limiting their value proposition.

Figure 3: Reference Architecture: OSS cloud for a MSP, Source: Wipro Technologies

Identification of systems that can be migrated to the cloud requires an examination of architectural readiness, maturity and priority of the OSS product, in conjunction with an evaluation of the OSS landscape of the CSP.
OSS Software Vendors need to prioritize cloud or SaaS enablement as part of the OSS product roadmap.

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