Digital Transformation: What Does It Take?

Orange Business Services’ Franck Morales discusses the intricacies of orchestrating true digital transformation in which human and AI users perform all tasks in the cloud. Businesses need a defined infrastructure strategy that delivers a cloud platform capable of hyperscaling their federated resources. Can today’s service providers be the providers of all?

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Franck Morales of Orange Business Services:

The accelerated shift to doing everything in the cloud.
How infrastructure has become a critical element of business strategy.
Why service providers need to be able to think forward and completely differently about their services.
What does hyperscaling resources in the cloud require and who are the hyperscalers—competitors or collaborators?
And what does it ultimately take to be a provider of all?

About Our Guest

Franck Morales, Vice President, Evolution Platform, Orange Business Services

With over 30 years of industry experience, Franck has been a key player in Orange Business Services’ global transformation towards SD-WAN and he is embracing the new wave of digital transformation as an enthusiastic champion of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

Franck Morales is keen to enhance the Orange position in a marketplace which requires a dedicated telco Cloud platform for connectivity and security as part of the new infrastructure for Service Providers.

His experience in managing durable strategic partnerships is an important benefit in this ecosystem where Service Providers are reinforcing close relationships with vendors and hyper-scalers to comprehensively meet customers’ needs.

In his free time, Franck enjoys travelling, running, cycling, in addition to Opera and Theatre, and he will be more than happy to share his knowledge on French wines and gastronomy.

Executives at the Edge podcast is brought to you by MEF, an industry association of 200 service, technology, and cloud providers who together accelerate enterprise digital transformation.

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