TECHNOLOGY · AI-ASSISTED SUMMARY
Lumen and Microsoft Expand Co‑Sell Partnership to Deliver AI‑Ready Enterprise Networks
WHY IT MATTERS
The partnership gives enterprises a unified, secure network foundation that integrates with Azure, enabling faster AI deployment and consistent policy enforcement across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
What happened
Lumen Technologies and Microsoft announced an expanded co‑sell partnership to help enterprises connect the data, applications and infrastructure that power AI workloads. The deal builds on Lumen’s global fiber backbone and cloud‑native networking, which will be available through Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Marketplace.
By aligning network transformation with Azure modernization plans, customers can plan connectivity, security, data movement and AI infrastructure as a single enterprise architecture. The collaboration will extend joint account planning around network modernization, cloud migration and AI transformation, and will bring additional Lumen capabilities to Azure over time.
Lumen’s Alkira solution, already on the Marketplace, provides a purchasing option for cloud‑native networking that applies consistent policies across distributed environments.
LINKED SOURCES
Lumen and Microsoft expand collaboration to co-sell enterprise AI-ready networks
Microsoft (company statement) · sbaynes · Corporate primary source; facts only, no copied text or images; link and attribution required
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