4,000 IT PROFESSIONALS

IN THE U.S.300+ Service Desk Resources,

500+ Compute Specialists, 200+ Storage Specialists, 200+ IT

Architects

Manage websites for the world’s

TOP BRANDS

33,000 business and

government clients

43% of global foreign exchange

transactions daily

3RD LARGEST U.S. telecomm company

2ND LARGEST GLOBALcolocation company

8 CONSECUTIVE YEARS

as a leader or visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrants

60+ Global

World-Class Data Centers

2,000Expert Personnel

Global DevOps & Apps Team

The CenturyLink Difference

2

MAJOR PLAYER in the IDC Worldwide Service

Provider Marketscape

RANKED HIGHEST IN U.S.

Business Wireline satisfaction StudySM*

LEADER IN FORRESTER DDoS WAVE study

1ST EVER appearance in the Asia-Pac

CC report

550,000Global Network

Route Miles

Platinum Service Provider

CenturyLink & NetApp- Storage Arrays

Benefits• Unified Platform

• Dedicated and Multi-Tenant• Choose SAN or NAS• Quick Provisioning

• Snapshots & Replication• Replication to a different

CenturyLink data center daily• Service based on

Performance• 3 tiers to match business needs

• Customer Control• Full function portal with

Advanced reporting

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Getting Started with Hybrid CloudDave StrebelSr. Manager - Cloud Solutions

27% SatisfactionSource : http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/survey-moving-to-the-cloud-still-aint-easy.html

CLOUD SUCCESS ?

WE GOT THIS!

HYBRID IT ?

Hybrid Cloud Is Real

How We Get There

What does Hybrid Cloud actually mean ?Define your purposeSelect a matching providerIdentify characteristics of successBest Practices Customer Use Cases

What does Hybrid Cloud

actually mean ?

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Definitions : Yours and Theirs

Define your purpose

Headcount Reduction?

Follow the Herd?

Agility!

Select a Provider

Additional Services

Real Cost of Cloud

Application Migration

Bandwidth

Server Storage

Load Balancing

Server Monitoring

Disaster RecoveryDevelopment Environment

System Administrator Costs

Cost Of Migration

Change Management

Maintenance

Onboarding

QA Environment

Performance

Global Reach

Automation Friendly

Jeff Katzen

Roadmap

Go Hands On

Best Practices

Target the right workloads

Automation

Hybrid CloudUse Cases

Untested Workloads

Cloud Bursting

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What We Discussed

What does Hybrid Cloud actually mean ?Define your purposeSelect a matching providerIdentify characteristics of successBest Practices Customer Use Cases

What we discussed

What does Cloud actually mean ?

Define your purposeSelect a matching providerIdentify characteristics of

success

Q & A