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Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
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Martin Creaner has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for almost 25 years and is currently President of the Telemanagement Forum (TMForum). The TM Forum is the industry body for the the global Telecommunications industry. It has 750 member companies in over 185 countries, including all the major carriers and all the leading equipment and software Vendors.

Prior to joining the TM Forum Martin held a number of executive positions with Motorola and British Telecom.

Martin is widely published and is featured and quoted regularly in business and trade journals. Martin is also the author of the leading telecoms business book “NGOSS Distilled”.

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September 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

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How Secure is the Cloud?

It should come as no surprise that security is the 800-pound gorilla in the room of cloud services for the larger companies. I wrote a few months ago ( Cloud Computing: Taking an Holistic View ) that the only way I could see public cloud failing is if there was a big security scare. True to form, at the recent Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways of attacking cloud computing services. Claims were made about how to hack through Amazon's...

Published 09-30-2009 2:59 AM by Martin Creaner

Filed under: Cloud Computing SDP SOA
Joining the Dots to Create Compelling New Services

I always think that one of the tricks in being successful is to be able to join the dots between seemingly disparate phenomena to create a new truly compelling offering. I read today about the new Vodafone 360 offering which links up the hugely sexy topics of AppStores, Social Networking & Smart Phones. Its not clear where Vodafone plan to take this new beast, but it seems clear that if you can integrate our insatiable appetite for social networking, along with our growing appetite for personal...

Published 09-24-2009 4:21 AM by Martin Creaner
Change is the only constant in this industry

I read to my amazement this morning that LTE is now going to be too slow!! It is still years away, and will be radically faster than anything we can get today from 3G, but it is already being superceded by something called Advanced LTE which will deliver downlink data rates of around 1Gb/s and uplink data rates of around 500Mb/s. Seemingly, LTE in the way that it is defined today does not meet the criteria for 4G and should only be considered a form of 3G on steroids. Meanwhile in the same publication...

Published 09-09-2009 1:06 AM by Martin Creaner
Lets stop talking about Over-The-Top Services as if they are somehow different

It dawned on me this morning that talking about over-the-top services (OTT) as if they are different from the services provided by our incumbent carriers, is a little bit insulting. They are simply service providers who are using new channels to market that have evolved in recent times. When we say OTT we somehow imply that these guys are a little bit sneaky, and that they are using bandwidth that they shouldn't be using. But that's simply not true. They tend to be businesses who are very...

Published 09-08-2009 4:50 AM by Martin Creaner