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Harnessing the Business Advantage of the Cloud THIS NEW CENTURY OF THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING CLOUD IS TRANSFORMING EVERYTHING
Harnessing the Business Advantage of the Cloud
THE WORLD—AND YOUR BUSINESS—IS CHANGING DAILY. You need a secure, scalable, and agile hybrid cloud foundation
to compete, transform, and evolve your business in the constantly changing world.
• Expand: Reach beyond physical and functional boundaries to connect and transform your business.
• Engage: Tailor individual customer experiences by harnessing data and drawing actionable insights.
• Empower: Help employees achieve more by creating a work environment that’s intelligent, flexible, and secure.
• Optimize: Accelerate the responsiveness of your business, improve service levels, and reduce costs with intelligent processes.
• Transform: Differentiate and capture emerging opportunities by using data as a strategic asset and shifting from hindsight to foresight.
WHY LEVERAGE MANAGED CLOUD SERVICES?
Managing Change, Business, and IT
CenturyLink provides a comprehensive technology platform that integrates market-leading Microsoft cloud applications, networks, and infrastructure, with proven consulting and managed services. We’re expert at developing and delivering the tailored solutions you need to improve results, reduce technology risk, accelerate time-to-market, and ensure your technology investment supports your business goals.
• Focus on What Matters › With Managed Services, you can easily offload critical IT functions for your most important applications. Save time and increase productivity by outsourcing the installation, configuration, and management of critical applications.
• Proven Expertise › Our Managed Services team leads the industry, with deep expertise managing infrastructure and applications at scale for some of the world’s largest enterprises.
• Deep Capabilities › Our services go much further than just the basics—we perform more tasks for more applications on your behalf.
• Increased Security › We provide the systemic security and vigilance you need for Microsoft Trustworthy Cloud.
• Agility › Managed applications are available across CenturyLink products, Dedicated Private Cloud (DCC), Public Cloud (CLC), and Dedicated Server Hosting.
TAKE A PROVEN, STABLE, AND SECURE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING “HYBRID IT”
Why CenturyLink + Microsoft
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WE PROVIDE THE SOLID, AGILE FOUNDATION YOU NEED FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CLOUD
is a global leader in network and data center infrastructure providing network, colocation, hosting, and cloud solutions.
offers the most connected, comprehensive set of cloud
solutions and integrated platform, productivity, and
business solutions.
Working together, we combine data networking and systems integration expertise with the extensive cloud tools and technologies you need to realize world-class agility, security, and power in the cloud.
SCALABLE, SECURE FOUNDATION
FOR YOUR HYBRID IT & CLOUD STRATEGY
Transformative Engagements
Seamless Integration Rapid Deployment
The Power of CenturyLink PROVEN EXPERTISE, CAPABILITY, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
THOUSANDS OF IT PROFESSIONALS
GLOBALLY Service Desk Resources,
Compute Specialists, Storage Specialists, IT Architects
Manage websites for the world’s
TOP BRANDS
3RD LARGEST U.S. telecomm company
2ND LARGEST GLOBAL colocation business
MULTIPLE CONSECUTIVE YEARS
as a leader or visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrants
MAJOR PLAYER in the IDC Worldwide Service
Provider Marketscape
LEADER IN FORRESTER DDoS WAVE study
Access to 60+ Global World- Class
Data Centers
550,000 Global Network
Route Miles
2,000 Expert Personnel
Global DevOps & Apps Team
INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP with CPE Partners
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Transformative Capability
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ON-PREMISES Solution Consultants &
Support Engineers
COLOCATION 55+ Global Data
Centers
DEDICATED HOSTING Security, Compliance,
and Performance
CLOUD SERVICES Cloud Application Manager,
Public & Private Cloud, PaaS, Bare Metal
Flexible Infrastructure Choices to Optimize Your Entire Application Portfolio
Highly Reliable, Secure, Hybrid IT-Ready Public and Private Networking
S E C U R E & O P T I M I Z E D
Managed Services: Integrated Ecosystem plus Operating Systems & Applications
Global Network & CPE: 550,000 Route Miles Connecting 280+ Data Centers
Storage, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Block, File, SAN, NAS, Backup, DR, DRaaS
THE EXPERTISE AND AUTOMATION YOU NEED SECURELY MANAGE YOUR HYBRID IT
Comprehensive Big Data Expertise
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Delivering industry-best expertise,
software, infrastructure and managed
services to help enterprises extract
value from their data.
ü Expedite Time-to-Answer
ü Increase Sales
ü Accelerate Revenue Growth
ü Streamline Operations
ü Reduce Risk and Ensure Resiliency
ü Enhance the Customer Experience
C O N S U L T I N G
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E
A P P L I C A T I O N S
SE
CU
RITY
– Compliance & G
overnance (Physical, Network, Information Assurance)
Data Governance
Business Intelligence
DBaaS
Data Visualization
SAP HANA/ Hadoop
Model Risk Assessment
Predictive Analytics
Object Storage
C loud App l i ca t ion Manager and Serv ices
Development Integration Management Monitoring Data Migration
MANAGED INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES Monitoring
Server | Network DC Network Management
Backup Services
Service Reporting
Management Server | Storage | Security
Implementation Strategy Advanced Analytics
Architecture & Design
N E T W O R K
Internet MPLS / SD-WAN Ethernet Fiber
MANAGED NETWORK SERVICES
Customer Premises Colocation Managed Hosting
Cloud / 3rd Party Clouds
The Value of Microsoft
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A COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED PORTFOLIO OF CLOUD BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES
Microsoft provides a comprehensive array of agile, integrated, and highly interoperable cloud services, business solutions, and supporting technologies for business of all sizes.
Intelligence › The Microsoft Cloud is a secure solution that can listen, learn, and predict, turning data into actionable insight that enhances business opportunities.
Collaboration › The Cloud provides a scalable and complete collaboration suite that transforms the way teams work.
Transformation › With the Cloud, high performance computing and agility can help businesses expand their growth.
The Value of Microsoft
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A COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED PORTFOLIO OF CLOUD BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES
The CenturyLink Advantage
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AN INTEGRATED, MULTI-LAYERED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MICROSOFT CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES
OPERATE MANAGE
+ + DEPLOY TRANSFORM
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ON AN INTEGRATED, SCALABLE, AND SECURE FOUNDATION
Unlike other cloud infrastructure providers and traditional network providers, which deliver only single layers of IT infrastructure, CenturyLink integrates market-leading Microsoft applications with corresponding infrastructure and network. We provide consulting and management services to create flexible, scalable, and secure software defined IT environments designed to advance your business strategy.
Key CenturyLink & Microsoft Solutions
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Optimize your hybrid IT environment by leveraging the knowledge, expertise, and comprehensive global infrastructure of CenturyLink for Microsoft cloud, tools, and technologies:
DATABASE AS A
SERVICE ON MS SQL
MANAGED HOSTING & CENTURYLINK CLOUD
(CLC) WITH MANAGED MS SQL
MICROSOFT EXPRESS
ROUTE
MICROSOFT AZURE
MICROSOFT OFFICE 365
CenturyLink provides consulting, resale, management, and integration of Microsoft Office 365 cloud offerings, Microsoft database, operating systems, and Microsoft Azure solutions. CenturyLink complements this by including private and secure connectivity options to Office 365 and Azure through Microsoft ExpressRoute, an Azure service that delivers private connections between Microsoft data centers and infrastructure that can be on-premises or in a colocation environment.
MANAGED CLOUD SERVICES AND SUPPORT
Tools and Automation
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We provide a Cloud Management Application with anywhere tools to allow you successfully implement, manage, and report your cloud infrastructures.
• Enables scalability of applications
across any infrastructure based on workload requirements and business goals
• Flexible, scalable platform
• Manage network, security, hosting, and managed cloud environments
TO HELP YOU MANAGE YOUR HYBRID IT/HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Managed and Co-managed Services
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We provide complete application and virtualization assessment and design services with expert knowledge of industry leading public cloud capabilities
• Empirical data collection through use of automated tools
• Consolidating multiple data sources for customer information
• Workshop sessions with customer subject matter experts
• Cloud Application Readiness Evaluation (CARE)
• Data normalization for application, database, and dependency information
• Correlation for compute, storage network and security
• Considerations for optimization and consolidation
• Consultative solution needs
• Logical design documentation for cloud footprint
• Network and security layers • Configuration
documentation for cloud design
DISCOVERY: APP & INFRA
ANALYSIS: BASELINE INVENTORY
DESIGN: TARGET-STATE
DESIGN: MIGRATION
• Migration strategy documentation for application classifications
• Application grouping schedule based on dependency and business requirements
• Experienced technical leads to facilitate integration across all teams and domains
• Milestone project plan to frame-up the execution
BROAD DELIVERY OPTIONS CenturyLink Cloud and Microsoft Azure—as staff augmentation or full outsource
CLOUD ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT CONSULTING
CenturyLink Consulting Services
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Single-vendor convenience with expert knowledge for Hybrid Cloud Design and Migrations
• Empirical data collection through use of automated tools
• Consolidating multiple data sources for customer information
• Workshop sessions with customer subject matter experts
• Cloud Application Readiness Evaluation (CARE)
• Data normalization for application, database, and dependency information
• Correlation for compute, storage network and security
• Considerations for optimization and consolidation
• Consultative solution needs
• Logical design documentation for cloud footprint
• Network and security layers • Configuration documentation for
cloud design
Cloud BUILD CORE INFRASTRUCTURE
(Only for CenturyLink Data Center)
PLAN TECHNICAL DETAILING
Cloud MIGRATE
BROAD DELIVERY OPTIONS CenturyLink Cloud and Microsoft Azure—as staff augmentation or full outsource
CLOUD DESIGN AND MIGRATION SERVICES
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“BETTER TOGETHER” SYNERGY, SUPPORT, AND BUSINESS IMPACT
“CenturyLink and Microsoft Azure do a great job of supporting the application deployment and infrastructure management with its self-service portal and blueprints for popular and widely-used software components, including containers…This means IT organizations can more effectively collaborate on applications and releases with visualization for traditional, production, mission-critical, and multi-tiered applications .”
Jay Lyman, Research Manager, Cloud Management and Containers, 451 Research
• Application Deployments • Infrastructure Management • Self-Service Portals • Box Blueprints • Popular, widely-used SW components and containers • IT Collaboration • Visualization of traditional, production, mission-critical,
and multi-tiered applications
Contacts and Resources
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Terence Gleeson VP, Strategic Alliances 619.540.7873 [email protected] Judy Misbin Strategic Alliance Manager 703.981.0603 [email protected] Jennine Gomez Marketing Contact [email protected]
Nelson Salazar Strategic Alliance Manager 425.703.9365 [email protected] Mike Karban Marketing Contact 314.995.3116 [email protected] Brian Bosserman Technical Contact 425.707.4479 [email protected]