Increasing concerns over cloud security and governance could be laid to rest following a new partnership deal announced between Ericsson and Intel. The agreement will see software and hardware from the two firms being combined to enable operators to offer cloud services to rival the capabilities from today’s very largest cloud service providers.

Labelled the Ericsson HDS 8000 Hyperscale Datacentre System, the new cloud system will take advantage of Intel’s rack scale architecture to host Ericsson’s secure cloud storage and its Continuum technology to provide a platform for hybrid cloud services.

“This partnership with Intel enables non-cloud providers to compete with the biggest names in the industry,” said Hans Vestberg, Ericsson’s CEO. “Our proposition is about more than realising a cloud solution. It is about realising a digital industrialisation strategy.”

“This is an offering aimed directly at operators. It provides them a data centre and software to manage all aspects of the cloud. From this they can develop and build a cloud service that best meets their needs, giving them a key competitive edge,” he said.

The company maintains that 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.

Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, added: “Our rack space system brings much improved capabilities and performance together with significantly lower cost of ownership. The new hyperspace datacentre system is the foundation for operators wanting to transfer their services to the cloud. This is a ground-breaking development for the cloud and data centres.”

Intel claims that its development effort with Ericsson will see its rack scale technology used to provide a disaggregated hardware approach to dramatically improve efficiency, utilisation and automation.