India, Jan. 27 -- The telecommunications industry is entering a critical phase in its modernisation. As networks shift from traditional infrastructure to cloud-native architectures, service providers face a central challenge: how to develop a data foundation capable of supporting current cloud-native workloads alongside emerging AI-driven network automation, while maintaining reliability at scale.

In June 2023, Nokia selected Red Hat OpenShift as its primary reference platform for core network applications. More recently, it chose Pure Storage as the data infrastructure foundation for its next-generation telco cloud. Together, these decisions form the basis of a reference architecture designed to support data management from the network ...