LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES
“ TO SUPPORT THE
DIGITALISATION OF THOSE PLATFORMS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW TECHNOLOGY
ENABLES SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS A RANGE OF
DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES ”
ANNETTE MURPHY REGIONAL PRESIDENT OF EMEA
AND APAC , LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES
“ Those partnerships ensure that we ' re able to apply best practices across a range of different areas and use data to drive better business decisions . With these partners , we are seeing tremendous value delivered to our customers .
Partnerships with VMware , IBM , SAP and HPE “ One of our most important partnerships is with VMware ,” establishes Murphy . “ Their technology enables a number of different solutions that we provide to both our network and cloud space .
“ VMware is a key enabler of our edge solutions , as well as the foundational platform for our private cloud solution . But , more recently , we ' ve been working with VMware to understand how their technologies on our platform address emerging issues around data sovereignty and reducing the carbon footprint of IT infrastructure and operations .”
“ Those same issues that we tackle with VMware are also what drive our partnership with companies like SAP and IBM ,” says Murphy . “ Their customer engagements are driven by the need to develop new business systems and accounting systems to support carbon accounting and other emerging issues .” She adds : “ Our platform enables them to deploy those solutions at scale , in a way that ' s more cost-effective and better integrated with existing systems .”
“ Finally , our partnership with HPE is also very valuable . We want to ensure that the hardware that we use has the least environmental impact possible over the course of its entire life cycle ,” says Murphy .
“ Our partnership with HPE ensures that we have not only the best hardware going in , but that our hardware also contains a relatively low level of embedded carbon , can be easily recycled and repurposed , and has a very long life that can be extended to keep the hardware out of the waste stream as long as possible .”
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