Today, Lumen Technologies (Nasdaq: LUMN) and Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, announced their intent to collaborate on helping enterprises simplify how they move, control, and secure data across modern enterprise environments. The companies look to combine Lumen's programmable networking capabilities with Snowflake's AI Data Cloud to help customers streamline how data is connected, governed, and activated across analytics, applications, and AI use cases. The collaboration reflects Lumen's strategy to build the trusted network for AI by combining world-class infrastructure, a programmable network, and a growing ecosystem of technology partners.
Enterprises are accelerating AI investments but often struggle to connect and move data securely across clouds, data centers, and enterprise locations. Lumen and Snowflake intend to make that path smoother by leveraging Snowflake's Data Connectivity Proxy (DCP), a secure connectivity layer designed to be pre-installed on Lumen infrastructure that allows data to move over Lumen's private fiber networks.
Today, customers can already leverage integrated Lumen and Snowflake capabilities to support secure data connectivity across hybrid enterprise environments. Lumen and Snowflake plan to build on that foundation by exploring additional opportunities to make private connections easier to establish and manage across the enterprise data ecosystem.
Read the full press release here.