NTT and Microsoft Form a Strategic Alliance to Enable New Digital Solutions
December 10 2019 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
NTT Corporation (NTT) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a
multi-year strategic alliance aimed at delivering secure and
reliable solutions that help enterprise customers accelerate their
digital transformations. The alliance will bring together NTT’s
best-in-class ICT infrastructure, managed services and
cybersecurity expertise, with Microsoft’s trusted cloud platform
and AI technologies. Key initiatives of the alliance include the
creation of a Global Digital Fabric, development of digital
enterprise solutions built on Microsoft Azure, and co-innovation of
next-generation technologies in the area of all-photonics network
and digital twin computing.
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As one of the world’s largest global technology and business
solution organizations, NTT provides integrated services that
include digital business consulting and managed services for
cybersecurity, applications, cloud, datacenters and global networks
in over 190 countries and regions. As part of the strategic
alliance, NTT has chosen Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud
platform for modernizing its global IT infrastructure and customer
solutions in the areas of advanced analytics for cybersecurity
threat intelligence and the hybrid-IT management platform.
“NTT is committed to helping enterprises realize their digital
transformation initiatives to help create a smarter world. We
believe that the combination of the Microsoft Azure platform along
with NTT’s connected infrastructure and service delivery
capabilities will accelerate these efforts. Additionally, the
companies will collaborate on IOWN, including areas such as
all-photonics network and digital twin computing,” said Jun Sawada,
President and CEO of NTT.
“Our strategic alliance combines NTT’s global infrastructure and
services expertise with the power of Azure,” said Satya Nadella,
CEO, Microsoft. “Together, we will build new solutions spanning AI,
cybersecurity and hybrid cloud, as we work to help enterprise
customers everywhere accelerate their digital transformation.”
Key initiatives of the alliance include:
1. Formation of a Global Digital Fabric
Global Digital Fabric is a combination of Microsoft Cloud and
NTT’s globally connected ICT infrastructure. It brings together the
strengths of the two companies in the areas of productivity
solutions, public cloud, global datacenter and network
infrastructure. The Global Digital Fabric aims to create a highly
sustainable, secure and robust environment for enterprises to
accelerate their digital ambitions around the world.
2. Development of digital enterprise solutions
The alliance also covers the development of digital solutions
built on Microsoft Azure to empower enterprises to accelerate their
digital transformation and to operate more securely from the
enterprise to the edge to the cloud. Key initiatives include
advanced analytics for cybersecurity threat intelligence, social
robotics with relational AI for digital companions, digital
workplace solutions, as well as knowledge discovery and
management.
3. Co-innovation of next-generation technologies
The alliance will also explore research and development of
all-photonics network and digital twin computing as part of NTT’s
Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) concept. The goal is
to provide a more natural interaction between people, nature and
technology, and to support sustainable growth with an optical-based
networking and information processing platform of the future.
Furthermore, NTT and Microsoft are committed to harnessing the
power of technology for a more sustainable future. The companies
intend to work together to invest in innovative projects that
leverage technology to build on NTT’s sustainability initiatives
and Microsoft’s AI for Earth grants.
“NTT and Microsoft have a long history of collaboration, and
this strategic alliance will further deepen our partnership. We
share the same vision of empowering enterprises and society with
intelligent and secure technologies for a better and more
sustainable future,” said Jun Sawada, President and CEO of NTT.
About NTT
NTT is a global technology and business solutions provider
helping clients accelerate growth and innovate digital business
models.
We provide digital business consulting, technology and managed
services for cybersecurity, applications, workplace, cloud, data
center and networks – all supported by our deep industry expertise
and innovation.
As a top-five global IT services provider, our diverse teams
deliver services in 190+ countries and regions. We serve 85% of the
Fortune Global 100 companies and thousands of other clients and
communities.
With a 120-year heritage of service and social responsibility we
advocate and act for our clients and a sustainable world.
For more information on NTT, visit www.global.ntt.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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