Lumen and VMware Expand Partnership to Drive Rapid Innovation at the Edge
February 03 2021 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Companies to Establish a Joint Innovation Lab
to Accelerate Customers’ Ability to Build, Run, Manage, Connect,
and Protect Applications Across Distributed Infrastructure
Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW)
today announced a significant expansion of their partnership to
fast-track the design, development, and delivery of edge computing
and more secure, work-from-anywhere solutions. Lumen and VMware’s
combined capabilities will enable customers to deliver
future-forward experiences for any application, to any device, from
the global cloud core to the distributed network edge.
Automated factories. Smart cities. Telemedicine. These
interaction-intensive experiences require the orchestration of
compute, network, and data resources closer to the customer to
deliver low latency, and intrinsically secure applications. To lay
the foundation for advanced workloads, Lumen and VMware will form a
Joint Innovation Lab, bringing together architecture and design,
marketing, and sales resources. The teams will focus initial
efforts on co-developing solutions for the Lumen portfolio of
managed services in key areas including:
- Edge Computing: Certifying the integration of the VMware
Tanzu Basic edition with the Lumen Edge Bare Metal service and
Lumen Dynamic Connections. This combination will enable businesses
to create a more secure software supply chain to rapidly deploy new
edge-native workloads, on-demand, closer to the point of digital
interaction.
- Work-from-anywhere: Adding VMware’s Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE) platform – inclusive of VMware SD-WAN and
VMware Workspace ONE – to the Lumen solutions set. Many
organizations now manage distributed workforces, making legacy
solutions – including hub-and-spoke-based VPNs – obsolete. This
initiative will help customers more seamlessly adopt SASE
architecture to achieve the reliability and performance of a
traditional network, as well as deliver superior customer and
employee experiences, in a Zero Trust model.
- Security: Integrating VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint
and VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload with intelligence data from
Black Lotus Labs, the threat research arm of Lumen. Enterprises
will be better positioned to defend against cyber-threats, right
from the end point, using the combination of security analytics
derived from one of the world’s most deeply peered networks and
industry-leading endpoint protection and datacenter
virtualization.
“Resilient edge computing solutions will drive the next wave of
digital innovation for the enterprise and customers need the right
capabilities to effectively create, deploy, and manage applications
in this new environment,” said Jeff Storey, president and chief
executive officer, Lumen Technologies. “This deliberate move to
invest in and accelerate our efforts with VMware will allow us to
quickly bring to market software-defined solutions that address the
real issues our customers face as they move applications to the
edge. That is powerful.”
“We see an exploding set of edge use cases that will result in
every human experience becoming digital,” said Pat Gelsinger, chief
executive officer, VMware. “These trends have only been accelerated
as a result of the pandemic. Materializing these opportunities
requires strong partnership by proven technical leaders. The
Lumen-VMware partnership will provide the exact combination
required to transform business processes and customer
experience.”
About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when
technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately
450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60
countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for
applications and data to help businesses, government and
communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen
network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration
solutions and our purpose to further human progress through
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Technologies are registered trademarks of Lumen Technologies LLC in
the United States. Lumen Technologies LLC is a wholly owned
affiliate of CenturyLink Inc.
About VMware
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital
infrastructure. The company’s cloud, networking and security, and
digital workspace offerings provide a dynamic and efficient digital
foundation to customers globally, aided by an extensive ecosystem
of partners. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is
committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough
innovations to its global impact. For more information, please
visit https://www.vmware.com/company.html.
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Courtney Morton Lumen Corporate Communications Phone: 801 238
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Angela Leaf VMware Global Communications Phone: 860 480 3367
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