StarHub has implemented a hybrid multi-cloud solution dubbed Cloud Infinity, which was built on Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
By implementing a hybrid multi-cloud approach, StarHub can better optimise costs, address compliance requirements and maintain operational control while more seamlessly delivering new services to enhance customer experiences.
With this collaboration, StarHub recognises Red Hat OpenShift as its preferred reference platform to accelerate hybrid cloud transformation and cloud-native workloads.
StarHub’s Cloud Infinity is designed to deliver a vast array of digital platforms and services for both StarHub and its customers through the power of cloud-native and AI-enabled technologies.
Red Hat OpenShift provides a scalable, flexible and reliable platform trusted across the telecommunications industry, enabling StarHub to use a common foundation across different cloud environments.
This hybrid cloud solution enhances StarHub’s technical and business flexibility and choice, delivering key benefits such as continuous integration, delivery and testing (CI/CD/CT); improved security throughout the entire stack; control over cloud usage, with the flexibility to choose private clouds for network; optimisation, traffic management, etc., or public clouds for advanced connectivity, application programming interfaces (APIs) and customer-facing solutions; the integration of new DevSecOps processes with machine learning operations (MLOps) for fine tuning, deployment, and lifecycle management of AI models and; the ability to deliver new services with optimised costs for a better user and customer experience.
With Red Hat OpenShift, StarHub can now more seamlessly run consumption-heavy workloads with sensitive data in its private cloud, focusing on innovative applications and services for better market differentiation in its public cloud offering.
StarHub is focused not only on modernising legacy systems but also on advancing autonomous intelligent networks to enhance customer experience and enable future hyper-personalisation.
The company is integrating AI initiatives to drive both operational efficiencies and improved customer services. Additionally, StarHub plans to deepen its collaboration with Red Hat as a managed services partner, aiming to deliver new regional services, including private 5G and more.
Ben Panic, VP of global sales at Red Hat’s Telco Centre of Excellence, said that by embracing cloud-native and AI-native capabilities, StarHub is positioning itself to deliver innovative, customer-focused services with greater agility and scalability.
Ayush Sharma, chief technology officer at StarHub, said they were transforming the telco’s infrastructure by porting their mobile, high-speed broadband connectivity, content, cyber, enterprise, IT, data and AI workloads onto the Cloud Infinity infrastructure.
“It is incredible to witness the speed and agility with which we can launch various digital services through our modern digital infrastructure that autonomously manages the complexity of multiple cloud and connectivity environments,” he said.
