Lumen and VMware are establishing a Joint Innovation Lab to accelerate customers’ ability to build, run, manage, connect and protect applications across distributed infrastructure.
Lumen Technologies and VMware are expanding their partnership to fast-track the design, development and delivery of Edge Computing and more secure, work-from-anywhere solutions.
Their 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.
The interaction-intensive experiences of automated factories, Smart Cities and telemedicine 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, work-from-anywhere and security.
“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.”
