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

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Transform your business with an on-demand secure, reliable,

elastic cloud services.

CenturyLink Cloud offers on-demand infrastructure services that

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,

storage, and networking services. Combined with our

powerful management interface — the Control Portal —

users manage hundreds of servers quickly and seamlessly.

CenturyLink Cloud can be securely connected to on-premises

data centers, colocation gear or hosting environments, enabling

hybrid IT configurations common to many businesses.

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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

management of infrastructure to someone else. This enables IT pros and

developers to focus on building and maintaining applications that deliver

a competitive advantage for the business. In addition, cloud services do

not requiring large upfront capital expenses (CapEx) — users simply

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

– Extend Exiting IT systems to Cloud Easily

– Secure, Low Latency Private Networking

• Self-Service, Elastic Cloud Services

• Advanced Automation

• Orchestration Engine

• Integrated Managed Services

• Global Network of Cloud Nodes

• Flexible Support Options

• 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 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.

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-ReadyLeverage CenturyLink’s Cloud, integrated Control Panel, global

network and data center footprint to find the optimal deployment

model for every workload.

• Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Networking, Automated

Managed Services across hosting and cloud, Colocation

Secure Private and Public Networking Options. Connect to

our cloud using MPLS and securely tap into Managed Hosting

and Colocation via Cloud Network Services

Flexible 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

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 initiativesInstantly 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.

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.

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1 NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, September 2011

Be Agile• CenturyLink Cloud enables you

to rapidly create, scale, and

manage applications.

• Iterate quickly, easily add new

features and make changes.

Quickly react to changing

business conditions.

Be Innovative• Agile development and DevOps

methodologies come to life on

the CenturyLink Cloud.

• Foster innovation by lowering

the risk of trying new ideas.

Be Efficient• CenturyLink Cloud’s Control Portal

includes advanced automation and

orchestration capabilities, reducing

system management overhead.

• Work Smarter, Not Harder

Built-In Enterprise CapabilitiesThe 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 DevOpsThe 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 FootprintCenturyLink 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.

For more information visit www.centurylink.com/enterprise.

Global Headquarters Monroe, LA (800) 728-8471

EMEA Headquarters United Kingdom +44 (0)118 322 6000

Asia Pacific Headquarters Singapore +65 6591 8824

Canada Headquarters Toronto, ON 1-877-387-3764