DALLAS, Oct. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has
reached a multi-year, strategic alliance agreement with Amazon Web
Services (AWS) to optimize delivery of integrated solutions built
on the companies' respective cloud and networking capabilities. The
collaboration is designed to help both existing and new customers
more efficiently migrate to and utilize the AWS Cloud with the
AT&T network. The solutions are intended to span cloud
networking, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), security and
analytics.
"Customers of all sizes are quickly migrating to the AWS Cloud
to reduce their data center footprint, become more agile and take
advantage of innovation in areas such as IoT, Big Data and
Analytics," said Terry Wise, Vice
President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
"Advanced connectivity and network solutions are critical to
enabling our customers to get the most out of our services. We are
excited to expand our alliance with AT&T and deliver new
solutions designed to enable customers to accelerate their journey
to the AWS Cloud."
"For many enterprises, the cloud's potential can be equal parts
tantalizing and challenging. Emerging technology trends and
fluctuating needs mean that a company's plans are dynamic, and can
quickly change," said Mo Katibeh,
Senior Vice President, Advanced Solutions, AT&T Business
Solutions. "Together, AT&T and AWS can help streamline the leap
to the cloud. We're helping businesses connect everything and
anything to the cloud. More importantly, we're doing this so it can
be simple, scalable and highly secure."
The collaboration will focus in three main business areas, with
potential expansion in the future:
- Business Cloud Networking: Since the integration was
initially launched, AT&T NetBond® has become an
increasingly popular way for customers to establish high-speed,
highly secure network connections to the AWS Cloud. In fact, the
AT&T NetBond ecosystem has seen four fold growth in connections
and eight fold in traffic over the last year. In order to deliver
even more advanced networking capabilities to customers, AT&T
and AWS will work together to identify new solutions with security,
performance, and mobility in mind. Emphasis will be placed on
enhancing end-to-end customer visibility across more highly secure
and high performing network connections, allowing for faster and
more automated decision making capabilities to the customer.
- IoT: AT&T and AWS will coordinate introduction of
AT&T IoT-connected sensors and devices preconfigured to
seamlessly and more securely send data into the AWS Cloud. This
integration will provide customers with massive breadth and scale.
It brings together AT&T's global network, which connects nearly
29 million connected devices as of 2Q 2016 and reaches over 200
countries and territories, with AWS IoT, a managed cloud platform
that can more securely and reliably scale to billions of devices
and trillions of messages. Integration with the AT&T IoT
Starter Kit and IoT Data plans are also intended to be included,
which would allow customers to build their own solutions using
AT&T IoT and AWS IoT.
- Threat Management:AT&T and AWS both view security as
the highest priority. As part of this expanded strategic
relationship, AT&T and AWS plan to employ their respective
expertise and knowledge in security to help customers prevent,
detect, and respond to threats faster and more efficiently. Using
threat data and knowledge from both organizations will help fuel
the processes and tools that comprise AT&T Threat Intellect,
the "brains" behind AT&T's security platform that uses advanced
analytics to help provide improved end-to-end security protection
for every user on our network.
With a key focus on implementing innovative strategies, the
alliance relationship will bring together designated professionals
from each company to integrate automated and flexible cloud
solutions in support of the global, mobilized workforce.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by
subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T
brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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around the globe connect with leading entertainment, mobile, high
speed internet and voice services. We're the world's largest
provider of pay TV. We have TV customers in the U.S. and 11 Latin
American countries. We offer the best global coverage of any U.S.
wireless provider.* And we help businesses worldwide serve their
customers better with our mobility and highly secure cloud
solutions.
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