AT&T and IBM announced that
they are extending their partnership to help businesses manage their networking
services with agility and the support needed to respond to today’s demands.
IBM will take advantage of AT&T’s new FlexWare offering
(formerly known as AT&T Network Functions on Demand), which, according to
AT&T, makes it easy to set up and manage Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).
AT&T’s software-centric network architecture enables companies to
dynamically order, change, and provision network services and functions.
The partnership will take advantage of IBM’s sales and
marketing teams. AT&T will be able to run applications on IBM’s cloud,
cognitive, analytics, and security infra. IBM has also begun to roll out
AT&T FlexWare in many of its sites.
AT&T also announced
a new multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate
cloud and network capabilities. The companies will initially focus on delivering a suite of cloud solutions spanning on-demand cloud networking for businesses,
threat management, and IoT (including combination of AT&T’s global network
with AWS IoT). 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 will span cloud networking, mobility, IoT,
security, and analytics.
AT&T says that together with AWS, it can help streamline
the leap to the cloud for enterprises, and help them connect anything to the
cloud in a simple, scalable, and highly secure way.
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