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Our sister publication, Mobile Magazine, was on the ground at MWC to gain insights from world-leading executives principles right from the start to develop that. We have focused a lot of our energy on driving that automation and developing networking solutions that are heavily automated, allowing you to scale and have higher reliability.” In order to achieve this scale, Nokia has invested heavily into its partnerships with technology companies and system integrators. Some of these include partnering with Lenovo to drive data centre networking and automation solutions, in addition to a partnership expansion with Kyndryl to expand their joint data centre solutions portfolio.
Partnerships with technology giants of this scale demonstrate
Nokia’ s understanding of where AI and other emerging technologies are moving within the data centre industry.
“ This is because we know that to build data centres, you need much more than just the networking piece,” Manish shares.“ You need people who can bring the whole stack together to help our customers get AI workloads going. That’ s really where we are going, and you’ ll see more of these partnerships coming in the days and weeks ahead.”
Building on the Infinera acquisition One of the largest stories from Nokia in the last year is the telco announcing its intention to acquire optical networks specialist Infinera. Nokia was eager to bring the company under its wing, noting at the time that the purchase would increase the scale of its optical networking business by 75 %. datacentremagazine. com 141