PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

CenturyLink Cloud
The Complete Cloud Platform to
Manage your Entire IT Business
Application Portfolio

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PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

CenturyLink Cloud
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CenturyLink Cloud offers on-demand infrastructure services that for Cloud IaaS 2016 — available now.
make it straight forward to create and scale applications. What’s
more, these services are designed to meet common enterprise
requirements for security, governance, and data sovereignty.

CenturyLink’s public cloud includes a variety of compute, CenturyLink Cloud can be securely connected to on-premises
storage, and networking services. Combined with our data centers, colocation gear or hosting environments, enabling
powerful management interface — the Control Portal — hybrid IT configurations common to many businesses.
users manage hundreds of servers quickly and seamlessly.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a new, flexible way for users to consume
infrastructure. In this model, users access a shared pool of
configurable computing resources that are shared with others. The
user consumes these resources hourly, and pays only for what
they use. The provider manages the underlying servers, storage,
and other components, enabling the user to focus on higher-value
activities like building new applications or running existing apps.
This cloud model is composed of four essential characteristics,
•  On-demand access, acquire resources in minutes
•  Self-service, so creating and managing resources is automated
•  Scalable, resources are elastic
•  Metered billing, typically by the hour

Why use Cloud Computing?

The main benefit for IT departments: they can outsource the a competitive advantage for the business. In addition, cloud services do
management of infrastructure to someone else. This enables IT pros and not requiring large upfront capital expenses (CapEx) — users simply
developers to focus on building and maintaining applications that deliver pay as they go, and pay only for what they use in a utility model.

Why CenturyLink Cloud

CenturyLink Cloud is the complete platform to easily manage your entire business application portfolio, from application development to business-
critical workloads across public and private cloud infrastructure.

•  Supports Hybrid •  Orchestration Engine

–– Extend Exiting IT systems to Cloud Easily •  Integrated Managed Services
–– Secure, Low Latency Private Networking •  Global Network of Cloud Nodes
•  Self-Service, Elastic Cloud Services •  Flexible Support Options
•  Advanced Automation •  Leading SLAs

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Accelerate Time-to-Market
Deploy and scale applications around the globe using our highly
automated platform with an easy-to-use user interface.
Automate IT Operations 
 our cloud using MPLS and securely tap into Managed Hosting
Control Portal & API. Our intuitive management interface reduces
the time required to administer cloud environments. In addition, our
comprehensive API enables integration with existing IT systems. 
 Flexible
Orchestration & Environment Templates. Use Cloud Blueprints
to automate common deployments, and create your own custom
templates to replicate in future rollouts.
Self-Service. Create and manage complex cloud environments
with seamlessly.
Automate Routine Tasks. Patching, disaster recovery, and other
activities can be done in a fraction of the time with CenturyLink
Cloud’s Control Portal.
Hybrid-Ready
Leverage CenturyLink’s Cloud, integrated Control Panel, global
network and data center footprint to find the optimal deployment
model for every workload.
Why CenturyLink?
CenturyLink Cloud is the complete platform to manage your
IT infrastructure and application portfolio… from application
development to business-critical workloads across public and
private cloud infrastructure. CenturyLink Cloud offers high-
performance, scalable, self-service virtual machines across
our global network of data centers. Built-in automation,
orchestration, and management tools provide a flexible, scalable,
cost effective IT-ready and developer-friendly platform...
Support new business initiatives
Instantly Provision and Manage Cloud Resources Quickly
Increase Business Agility. Spend more time on projects that matter.
Reduce CapEx. Supporting the business does not require large
up-front costs.
Transparent Costs. Pay as you go, Pay only for what you use.
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•  Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Networking, Automated
Managed Services across hosting and cloud, Colocation
Secure Private and Public Networking Options. Connect to
and Colocation via Cloud Network Services


Build Servers to Your Specs. Instead of choosing from pre-built
server sizes, we allow you to mix and match CPU, storage and
memory so can provision exactly what you need. 


Pay Only For What You Use. Hourly billing for cloud resources,
invoiced monthly. Or, sign a long-term commitment for greater savings.

Managed Services. Our team will manage operating systems,
and a range of other applications for you, so you can spend time
on more strategic activities.
DevOps Ready
Built for developers, by developers
•  Highly Automated
•  Credit-card access
•  Supports Cloud Foundry & Iron Foundry
•  RESTful APIs
Elasticity and Scalability. Always have the right amount of
capacity to do the job.
Peace of Mind Security & Compliance. Data and systems are
protected by “defense in depth” technologies that offer security
at the physical, logical, and account levels.
CenturyLink offers many agile infrastructure services to support
various application requirements:
•  Public cloud – Secure, shared, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
•  Private cloud – Dedicated, private cloud infrastructure, based
on our public cloud stack.
•  Managed services – CenturyLink sets up and manages
operating systems (e.g. Red Hat, Windows Server),
databases (e.g. MySQL), and applications (e.g. Cloudera).
•  Hybrid cloud/colocation solutions – CenturyLink can establish
unique, hybrid cloud/Colo architectures, such as dedicated
database replication and backup in a Colo facility working in
concert with cloud-based web servers.
Built-In Enterprise Capabilities
The CenturyLink Cloud includes a variety of features required by
many enterprises.
Visibility, Control, and Compliance. The platform’s integrated
management tools let you set up accounts and user groups,
along with show-backs/charge-backs.
Defense in Depth Security. CenturyLink Cloud secures your
data through an overlapping set of physical and digital controls.
Configurable for Compliance. The platform undergoes a regular
SOC2 Type 2 audit. Configurable platform elements enable you
to create environments that comply with a variety of compliance
regimens.
Agility and Scalability. The platform’s Control Portal features self-
service functions so you can add, modify, or remove capacity at will.
Reliability, High Availability, and Leading Service Level
Agreements (SLAs). CenturyLink Cloud is architected for
reliability and high availability (HA), with options for load
balancing, failover, built-in backup, and disaster recovery.
Ready for DevOps
The companies that win in the market today have the best
software — and that means moving to a DevOps model of
application development. CenturyLink Cloud is uniquely suited to
supporting companies along this transition.
Automated Processes for DevOps. Developers and Operations
people can share the same tools and workflows to move
software from code to production through a single control portal.
Built-in PaaS. CenturyLink combines Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with AppFog. CenturyLink
Cloud is well suited to agile development and DevOps.
Containerization. The CenturyLink Cloud supports containers and
the use of micro-services architecture. CenturyLink is an innovative,
committed member of the Docker community, contributing its own
“Panamax” standard for industry-wide adoption.
Orchestration & Environment Templates. Use Cloud Blueprints
to automate common deployments, and create your own custom
templates to replicate in future rollouts.
Self-Service. Create and manage complex cloud environments
with ease.
Global Footprint
CenturyLink Cloud operates out of 13 data centers around
the world. The platform’s geographical depth is distinctive,
with many customers taking advantage of multiple locations
for reasons of data sovereignty and disaster preparedness.
CenturyLink Cloud has Regional Data Centers in the US,
Canada, UK, Germany, and Singapore.

Be Agile Be Innovative Be Efficient

•  CenturyLink Cloud enables you •  Agile development and DevOps •  CenturyLink Cloud’s Control Portal
to rapidly create, scale, and methodologies come to life on includes advanced automation and
manage applications. the CenturyLink Cloud. orchestration capabilities, reducing
•  Iterate quickly, easily add new •  Foster innovation by lowering system management overhead.
features and make changes. the risk of trying new ideas. •  Work Smarter, Not Harder
Quickly react to changing
business conditions.

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NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, September 2011

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