CenturyLink's Cloud Application Manager allows customers to
invoke managed services anywhere at the push of a button
SANTA CLARA, California,
Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Based
on its recent analysis of the hybrid cloud management platform
market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes CenturyLink with the 2018
North American Product Leadership Award for its multi-cloud
management platform, which enables customers to manage hybrid
environments.
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"CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager stands out among the
competition for its comprehensive capabilities and Managed Services
Anywhere—a service through which CenturyLink can manage a
particular workload or an entire provider and assist with
optimization, performance, or general management needs all with
just a few mouse clicks," said Karyn
Price, Senior Industry Analyst, Cloud Computing.
CenturyLink's Cloud Application Manager can provide a range of
on-premises private cloud data center environments based on
different hypervisors, including HyperV, KVM, and VMware as well as
public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google and others.
Through standardized scripting, the platform can be configured to
interact with non-virtualized, legacy workloads as well. The
service can also handle infrastructure deployment and
configuration, full application lifecycle management, performance
monitoring and alerting, automatic scaling, data replication, and
optimization using analytics against the hyper-scale public cloud
providers.
CenturyLink's Cloud Application Manager includes embedded
intelligence within the administrative overview panel, which shows
customers their overall infrastructure consumption. The intelligent
platform can also make recommendations on how to optimize
subscriptions with each provider. Furthermore, it enables customers
to standardize their deployments across multiple infrastructures
and allows application modeling and sharing for deployment across
multiple infrastructures. Automating this process within the
platform reduces errors and ensures a consistent configuration of
the application, regardless of where the customer chooses to deploy
it.
"CenturyLink's Cloud Application Manager is unique in providing
a single platform that can manage such a breadth and depth of
infrastructures. The company is also unique in its ability to offer
managed services assistance at the push of a button, without a
lengthy managed services contract," said Price.
By embracing competing clouds and enabling its Cloud Application
Manager to manage third-party infrastructures, CenturyLink has
created a model that allows it to continue to serve and support
both existing and new direct sale customers, all while gaining
customers interested in managing public and private cloud
resources.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the
company that has developed a product with innovative features and
functionality that is gaining rapid market acceptance. The award
recognizes the quality of the solution and the customer value
enhancements it enables.
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About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is the second largest U.S.
communications provider to global enterprise customers. With
customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the
customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world's best
networking company by solving customers' increased demand for
reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its
customers' trusted partner, helping them manage increased network
and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security
solutions that help protect their business.
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Claudia Toscano
P: 210.477-8417
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