VMWare is partnering with edge computing company Ori Industries to advance telco cloud and multi-cloud adoption at the enterprise level with the interoperability of VMWare’s Telco Cloud Platform and Ori’s Global Edge.
The partnership has produced Ori Global Edge on VMWare Telco Cloud Platform, which the companies call a managed cloud service that delivers a multi-connected edge via multiple points of presence that connect to the telco and communications service provider on one end and different clouds on the other end.
This allows service providers to offer multi-access edge computing capabilities, allowing them to further monetize 5G offerings to the enterprise while helping to reduce their backhaul costs, the companies say.
According to the companies, this partnership is designed to reduce complexity, increase service velocity and simplify management of cloud-native service delivery at the edge.
Existing cloud deployment can be a barrier to edge adoption, and this partnership helps overcome those challenges by creating a fully functioning edge platform that connects to any cloud environment from telco to hybrid to multi-cloud, according to the companies.
The end result for customers is service availability at the edge with low latency, highly-available applications generating and processing data locally without overhead for data transfer back to the cloud for processing, according to the press release.
Stephen Spellicy, vice president of product marketing for VMWare’s service provider and edge segment, said in a statement that enterprises are looking for new ways to engage customers and deliver next-generation experiences.
“That means having the right application deployed where the user is,” he said. “Edge computing is the final piece of the puzzle and working with Ori Industries’ multi-access edge computing platform will give mutual customers the ability to deploy a solution that helps cover all their environments – whether telco, hybrid, multi-cloud or edge – to meet their business needs.”
In a statement, Douglas Mancini, CCO at Ori Industries said, enterprises have learned that a pure cloud-first model has failed to deliver the expected value or agility of edge computing.
“By combining our edge computing expertise with VMware Telco Cloud Platform and multi-cloud leadership, we are able to offer enterprises a way of harnessing the power of edge and reaping the benefits of being able to use data near to its creation,” he said.
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