By james art Canada-based Telus has completed a three-year data modernization project with Google Cloud and cloud consultancy Onix before implementing more AI capabilities into its operations.
The project involves moving data from fragmented on-premises systems to the Google Cloud cloud platform.
The operator said it upgraded hundreds of enterprise-grade data feeds and migrated more than 14 petabytes of data from siled legacy systems to Google Cloud. The project consolidates customer data from more than 100 Telus data sources into one central data center.
The result allows the operator to access unified data that his team members can use to make real-time business decisions and generate deeper customer insights.
Telus said the migration eliminated more than 30 percent of legacy data stored in older, on-premises infrastructure, reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint while delivering cost savings.
Jaime Tatis, chief insight and analyst at Telus, said the project allows it to “go beyond data-driven decision-making and unlock the enormous possibilities provided by generative AI.”