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IBM and AT&T announce multi-year strategic alliance

17 July, 2019 at 12:26 PM

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

IBM and AT&T announce multi-year strategic alliance
Thaddeus Arroyo of AT&T

IBM and AT&T announced a multi-year strategic alliance. Under the agreement AT&T Communications will use IBM’s expertise to modernise AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications, enabling migrations to the IBM Cloud.In addition, IBM will provide infrastructure to support AT&T Business’s applications. AT&T Business will utilise Red Hat‘s open source platform to manage workloads and applications. The improvements will allow AT&T Business to better serve enterprise customers.

IBM will also make AT&T Business its primary provider of software defined networking. AT&T Business will help transform IBM’s networking solutions with their latest technologies including 5G, Edge Compute, and IoT as well as multi-cloud capabilities using Red Hat. This builds on the existing relationship where AT&T Business is IBM’s strategic global networking provider.

“In AT&T Business, we’re constantly evolving to better serve business customers around the globe by securely connecting them to the digital capabilities they need,” said Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Business. “This includes optimising our core operations and modernising our internal business applications to accelerate innovation. Through our collaboration with IBM, we’re adopting open, flexible, cloud technologies, that will ultimately help accelerate our business leadership.”

IBM will be the primary developer and cloud provider for AT&T Business’s operational applications and will help manage the AT&T Communications IT infrastructure, on and off-premises and across different clouds –private and public. This approach will enable AT&T Business to build and deploy internal application workloads, and deliver new, innovative services.

Arvind Krishna

The two companies will also collaborate on edge computing platforms, which will help enterprise clients capitalise on the power of 5G network speeds and the internet-connected devices and sensors at the edge of the network. Using 5G, enterprises will one day be able to rapidly transmit data to and from multiple clouds and billions of edge devices with increased reliability and security, reduced latency and dramatic improvements in bandwidth. This will eventually help businesses transform the user experience for their customers and optimise processes across industries from retail to financial services, transportation to manufacturing, to healthcare and beyond.

AT&T Business has a strong commitment to utilising open source technologies. As part of the relationship, AT&T Business will continue to use Red Hat’s open source platform to manage the workloads associated with AT&T Business’s internal applications. On the heels of IBM’s recent Red Hat acquisition, AT&T Business will have even greater access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms as the foundation for workload portability and interoperability across any vendor’s cloud, on or off premises.

“Building on IBM’s 20-year relationship with AT&T, today’s agreement is another major step forward in delivering flexibility to AT&T Business so it can provide IBM and its customers with innovative services at a faster pace than ever before,” said Arvind Krishna, senior vice president, Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM. “We are proud to collaborate with AT&T Business, provide the scale and performance of our global footprint of cloud data centres, and deliver a common environment on which they can build once and deploy in any one of the appropriate footprints to be faster and more agile.”

The agreement between IBM and AT&T was signed in IBM’s Q2, 2019.

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category: 5G, Companies, Connected Devices, Merger & Acquitions, Network optimisation, News, People, Platforms & Applications, SDN, Sensors

Tags: Arvind Krishna, AT&T, IBM, Red Hat, Thaddeus Arroyo

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