Lumen Managed Services Anywhere for AVS

Lumen’s Managed Services Anywhere for AVS further simplifies the management of hybrid IT environments, providing support across all phases of the journey to Microsoft Azure. As opposed to using multiple vendors or in-house resources, Lumen Managed Services Anywhere for AVS simplifies governance. It enables organisations to benefit from the convenience of a single managed service provider, service subscription term, Technical Account Manager (TAM) and 24/7 global operations team. Offering complete flexibility for efficient environment management, it enables IT teams to keep core competencies in-house while offloading downstream complexity and coverage as required.

Lumen Managed Services Anywhere for AVS delivers faster application delivery through automation workflows capable of operating deep within CI/CD pipelines. Handoffs can be made at the application deployment stage, IaaS/PaaS build-out or at further upstream code commit points, with preferred developer tools, cloud platforms and pipeline practices maintained. Lumen’s 24/7 operations team helps to minimise DevOps callouts by covering most events without escalation.

Reducing effort and Opex costs, Lumen Managed Services Anywhere for AVS provides pre-defined workflows to solve common problems and enables organisations to leverage cloud optimisation and analytics. With proactive guidance from a dedicated TAM and cloud supply chain management taken care of, predictable savings can be made across cloud spend and usage. In addition, consolidated billing as a result of purchasing services and public cloud capacity through Lumen further simplifies and enhances operations.

With a complete suite of Azure VMware Solution offerings and managed services, Lumen enables organisations to:

• Accelerate adoption of Microsoft Azure
• Leverage existing VMware investments in the cloud
• Simplify the management of hybrid IT environments
• Change the insource/outsource mix at any time
• Pay only for what is used