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Microsoft and Lumen will jointly sell networks built for AI on Azure
Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their partnership to jointly sell networking to companies running AI on Azure. Lumen plans to bring its full cloud networking range to Azure. No figures or dates were given.
Microsoft and Lumen Technologies will jointly sell networking to large companies moving their AI work onto Azure, the two firms said on Monday.
Their pitch is that AI needs data from many places, such as public clouds, private data centres and offices.
The networks linking them are often patchy, so the firms want customers to plan the network and the move to Azure at the same time.
Lumen, a US fibre network operator, plans to bring its full range of cloud networking tools to Azure. Its sales teams will work with Microsoft’s on deals where networking, cloud moves and AI overlap.
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