Lumen Technologies and Microsoft are expanding their co-selling partnership to help enterprises connect the data, applications and infrastructure behind AI, which are often fragmented across clouds, data centers and offices. Lumen plans to bring its full suite of cloud networking and application connectivity capabilities to Azure, and the companies will engage in joint account planning for opportunities where network modernization, Azure migration and AI transformation converge. Alkira, a Lumen Connect solution, is already available through Microsoft Marketplace. The companies will share more details as their joint go-to-market plans progress.
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| Market | US stocks |
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