SINGAPORE, Nov. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc.
(NYSE: CTL) today announced it has been named a leader for the
second consecutive year in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled
Managed Hosting, Asia Pacific, by
analyst firm Gartner Inc.
"We are pleased to again be named as a leader in the Magic
Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Asia Pacific," said Gery Messer, managing
director, Asia Pacific, at
CenturyLink. "We believe this recognition reinforces CenturyLink's
reputation as a leading global hybrid IT provider. CenturyLink
continues to focus heavily in the Asia-Pacific region to meet growing demand for
managed services around hybrid infrastructure. Our integrated
management approach, spanning applications, infrastructure and
network connectivity, differentiates CenturyLink from the
competition."
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is available for download here:
http://bit.ly/2fO9XBR.
CenturyLink was also named a leader in last year's version of
the same Gartner report, the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled
Managed Hosting, Asia Pacific,
which was published November 11,
2015. Additionally, CenturyLink was named a leader in a
similar Gartner report, the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled
Managed Hosting, Europe, published June 28,
2016.
Gartner analysts To Chee Eng, Kenshi Tazaki, Vincent Fu and Arup
Roy authored the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting,
Asia Pacific, published
Oct. 17, 2016*.
CenturyLink's Asia-Pacific
operations date back to 1999; the company launched its first
virtualized service in the region in 2007. CenturyLink Cloud, its
public cloud platform, launched in Asia Pacific in March 2015. CenturyLink delivers managed hosting
services in China and has made its Private Cloud service available
globally.
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting,
cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to
transform their businesses and their lives through innovative
technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems
management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting, and operates more
than 55 data centers in North
America, Europe and
Asia. The company provides
broadband, voice, video, data and managed services over a robust
250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile
international transport network. Visit CenturyLink for more
information.
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