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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

CenturyLink + Microsoft

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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 terence.gleeson@centurylink.com Judy Misbin Strategic Alliance Manager 703.981.0603 judy.misbin@centurylink.com Jennine Gomez Marketing Contact jennine.gomez@centurylink.com

Nelson Salazar Strategic Alliance Manager 425.703.9365 nelsons@microsoft.com Mike Karban Marketing Contact 314.995.3116 mike.karban@microsoft.com Brian Bosserman Technical Contact 425.707.4479 sulman@vmware.com