At VMworld 2020,
Lumen Technologies and VMware, Inc. are
announcing a significant collaboration covering edge compute,
networking, and security. VMware and Lumen Technologies, or simply
Lumen, are taking their current partnership further with the agreement
for Lumen to deliver edge services using integrated VMware technologies.
This collaboration will help enterprises expand across data center,
cloud and edge, moving business applications that require low latency
and efficient localization closer to digital interactions. At VMworld,
Lumen and VMware will be presenting:
- How Lumen can migrate and manage workloads across a range of VMware technologies.
- Lumen's
edge computing solutions, and how enterprise customers can rely on a
consistent experience across a range of hybrid cloud venues, including
the VMware Cloud.
- Lumen's
portfolio of solutions built on and integrated with the VMware Cloud
Foundation, allowing companies to deploy business innovations with
single-digit millisecond latency to over 2,200 public data centers and
more than 170,000 on-fiber enterprise locations across the globe.
"In
talking with our customers about their digital business initiatives, it
comes up time and time again how important it is to support their
applications at the edge, where latency matters and enabling
performance, and geographical and security compliance is critical," said
Shaun Andrews, Lumen Chief Marketing Officer. "We believe customers can
benefit tremendously from the combination of Lumen's edge compute,
network and IT services and VMware's software to bring technology
solutions closer, within milliseconds, of the digital interaction.
Together we're helping businesses acquire, analyze and act upon their
enterprise data to enable amazing outcomes across a range of industries
and transformed business models."
Utilizing
the VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud solution and the recently announced
VMware SASE Platform, Lumen would have the ability to integrate VMware
SD-WAN, VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Carbon Black to deliver a "Work
from Anywhere" solution on their global edge infrastructure to create
thin-branch solutions for businesses of all sizes across a variety of
industries.
Lumen
will also be able to develop edge computing services for enterprises to
develop new digital services using VMware Tanzu so applications can run
consistently from the data center to the cloud to the edge, leveraging
the Lumen network. The reach of Lumen's distributed edge computing sites
will also improve application performance with quicker access to
multi-cloud environments.
"The
combined capabilities of Lumen and VMware will empower organizations to
take on the next phase of digital business," said Rajiv Ramaswami,
chief operating officer, products and cloud services, VMware. "We are
helping customers take advantage of holistic solutions that support the
people, processes, apps, and data that power business."
Earlier
in September, Lumen was launched with the core purpose of furthering
human progress through technology. To address the immense challenges in
fully realizing the promises of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Lumen
enables digital businesses across a range of industries to acquire,
analyze and act on data.