Scott Alexander Yandell

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Why CenturyLink Cloud?

• Alex Yandell, CenturyLink CSS Candidate

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Agenda

• Provide (3) strengths of the CenturyLink Cloud
  Platform
• Demonstrate how those unique strengths solve
  business problems
• Feedback/thoughts on Security white paper
• Demonstration of CenturyLink Cloud Platform

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Why CenturyLink?

• Cloud Offerings
• Public, private IaaS
• 32 cloud-enabled DCs
• Hybrid solutions/PaaS
• Managed Services
• Global Network 70 countries
• 240,000-route mile national fiber network
• 280,000 route miles of international transport
  network
• IP MPLS redundant global backbone

• Colocation
• 56 global data centers
• 100 uptime SLA
• Gold level support
• 2nd largest provider
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• Managed Hosting
• Customized solutions
• Gartner MQ Leader 8 years
• 30,000 servers under management
• 26 Petabytes of Storage
• Architected for the Enterprise by offering 4 9s
  SLA

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Advanced IT Management offerings

• Control Portal
• API
• Self Service
• Automation
• Test
• Orchestration
• Autoscale
• Governance/Billing

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Flexible options for todays Enterprise business

• Custom Servers
• Data Sovereignty
• Hourly Billing (eliminates waste)
• Pay As You Go
• Managed OS
• Managed Applications
• On-Boarding
• Support Tiers for selective response times for
  support issues
• .

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Strength 1 CenturyLink

• Sample customer Global Accounting firm
• Business Challenges
• Large Accounting entity storing lots of content
  sensitive documents
• Internal applications that dont communicate with
  each other
• Heavy compliance requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley and
  others)
• Solution
• New Fabric Based Infrastructure
• New tools to manage the business
• Utilize self service capabilities to improve
  efficiencies
• Business Impact
• Legacy solutions being moved to CenturyLink
  Cloud, will provide new levels of disaster
  recovery and business continuity to the
  enterprise
• Architecture for new services using Cloud Foundry
  PaaS
• Allows for phased approach to be utilized

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Strength 2 Business solution

• Sample customer Cloud service reseller
• Business Challenges
• Market evolving beyond just developer and test
  environments, true enterprise grade connectivity
  and scalability is expected from todays cloud
  offerings.
• Growing demand for VM based cloud services
  (public and private)
• Development cycles are lengthy
• Solution
• Partner with CenturyLink Cloud for a
  private-label offering to serve the high-end of
  the market
• Business Impact
• Seamless customer experience via My-peer 1
  portal,
• Solutions allows true enterprise features and
  functionality
• Increased business reach allows a new sales
  channel of enterprise customers
• Removes requirements to provide ping power and
  pipe.

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Strength 3 Business solution

• Sample customer Global Auto Manufacture
• Business Challenges
• 51 Exchange Servers globally
• Legacy Exchange 2003 deployment
• Customer has some existing hosted exchange
• Solution
• Proximity Based Global Deployment (Uses
  geographic dispersed data centers)
• Five 9s of Application Availability with full
  disaster recovery
• Cloud professional services coupled with managed
  services to build and manage the platform
• Business Impact
• Increases critical email services availability
  while reducing cost and reducing deployed
  architecture
• Delivers unified user experience from a global
  perspective
• Current IT staff can focus on other projects and
  initiatives

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Security Whitepaper talking points

• Shared security model between CL and Client
• CLC supports SOC-2 type 2 security and controls
• Role based access to cloud environments
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems
  (IDS/IPS)
• Security is a multi layered approach, strong
  Email security
• PaaS provides less client responsibility than
  IaaS
• Change management/Incident management
• Sensitive to data segregation in shared
  environments, no shared diskspace
• Vlan isolation for each customer
• SAML 2.0, provides ability to manage processes
  and tools

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Next steps

• Offer Letter
• Acceptance
• Move to Phoenix
• Hit the ground running