Technology Magazine November 2023 | Page 84

Solving the puzzle of scaled cloud capabilities at the edge

Rakuten Symphony explains how its radically different approach – combined with in-depth knowledge & proprietary architecture – benefits private networks
Rakuten Symphony is a company that truly lives up to the moniker ‘ innovative revolutionaries ’.
Often , you find that companies spot a gap in the market and then idealise the fastest , cheapest way of filling that gap – but not Rakuten Symphony , which is taking a new technology approach , proven by Rakuten Mobile in Japan , and delivering it globally . The company has married its knowledge with an automated approach that can be leveraged by any mobile operator , creating unique opportunities for its Symworld Cloud offering , including for private 5G deployments .
“ Private 5G needs to be looked at from the perspective of connectivity as well as the use
cases that it serves , explains Partha Seetala , President of Rakuten Symphony ’ s Unified Cloud Business Unit
“ By combining innovations in storage , networking , computation and application management into a cloud-native Kubernetesbased architecture , Symworld Cloud provides the highest-performing , most cost-efficient solution .
“ From a use case perspective , once a connectivity issue is solved , enterprises want to deploy more domain-centric workloads , like video analytics or apps churning a lot of data . That ’ s where Symworld Cloud shines – it addresses network and storage-based workload needs .