As telecom operators become IT and cloud players, their traditional suppliers have to transform themselves to keep their customers and fend off HPE and others from the data center space. Ericsson has been very active in this regard, with significant investments in infrastructure for operators which are moving to cloud services and even Cloud-RAN. Its latest acquisition, NodePrime, is designed to boost its offerings in data center and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies. NodePrime bills its offering as the “brain of the SDI (software defined infrastructure)”. It specializes in infrastructure management, with a command and control platform that covers all the components of a data center, automatically detecting and configuring new hardware. By automating many previously manual processes, it becomes quicker…