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CenturyLink Cloud:The Partner Opportunity
Curtis IngallsGlobal Cloud Alliance Sr. Mgr
Who is CenturyLink?
FORTUNE 158
TOP 3 COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER
20% WORLD’S INTERNET TRAFFIC
$18B REVENUE
48,000 EMPLOYEES
98% FORTUNE 500
• The Cloud Opportunity• The Cloud Customer• The Partner Opportunity
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What We’ll Cover Today…
The Cloud
Opportunity
2014 2018
56.6
127.5
Cloud/Managed Services: Double Digit Growth
2014 2018
107.2
171.7
Source: IDC, November 2014
22.8%
Managed Services Market ($B)
Source: Market & Market Managed Services Market Report, January 2015
Worldwide Public IT Cloud Services Spending ($B)
12.5%
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Cloud Adoption Drivers
+ ++
ImproveBusiness Agility
59%Reduce Cost
56%Better support
Business Needs
44%
TechValidate Research, CenturyLink Cloud Customer Research, Oct 2014
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By 2018
50%of IT budgetswill be dedicated to public IT cloud services
and more than
1/2of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deploymentsby 2017
IT budget growth forecast: IDC, Nov 2014Hybrid forecast: Gartner, 2013Top Applications: TechValidate Research, CenturyLink Cloud Customer Research, Oct 2014
Businesses Are Moving More Workloads To Cloud
Backup/Recovery
ApplicationDev/Test
Big Data
Website Hosting
Custom Apps
Examples of Cloud Applications Customers Need
Business Apps
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Cloud Customer
Increased agility & shorter time to market
I T C H A L L E N G E SPrioritizing budgets, people, systems
B U S I N E S S D E M A N D SNeed more of everything, faster
Cost containment
Accelerating Business Demands really Challenge IT
Revenue growth & profitability
Increased productivity
Mobile & Social
eCommerceResource acquisition, retention, skills, and training
Complexity
Compliance
Shorter implementation cycles
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Hybrid IT Adoption
Source: Gartner
Enterprises pursing an internal hybrid IT strategy
Infrastructure mix that includes at least one external option beyond on-premise data center deployments - data center colocation, managed services, and cloud offerings
74%
By 2015
Hybrid IT Solutions Drive Innovation & Growth
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23%Innovation
30%Monitoring and
Maintenance
24%Deployment
23%Pre-SystemsDeployment
77%ADMIN AND
MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
50%Innovation
20%Monitoring and
Maintenance
15%Deployment
15%Pre-SystemsDeployment
50%ADMIN AND
MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Utilize more of your fixed resources for business innovation & growth
BEFORE Fixed IT costs of M/OPrivate Data Center
AFTEROutsourcing
Routine/admin Tasks
Source: IDC Research, 2014
Key Deployment Scenarios and Top Verticals
Backup/Recovery
Big DataAnalytics
Website Hosting
Custom Apps
Business Apps
And many more…
Computer Software (ISVs)
Computer Services
Professional Services
Financial Services
Health Care
Dev/Test
Key Customers Benefits
69% Reduced Capital
Expenditure
66%Reported Increased
IT StaffProductivity
65%Reported Increased
Agility
53%Reported Reduced
Time to Provision IT
Source: CenturyLink Customer Survey, 2014
The Partner
Opportunity
Customers Need Guidance
• Navigate the complex array of cloud solution choices
• Want an established relationship with a vendor to trust them as a cloud service provider
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Be Your Customer’s Trusted Advisor
On-Premise Resources Cloud ResourcesIntegration
DATACENTER
Trusted Advisor
COLOCATION NETWORK
CenturyLink Cloud
Key Cloud Scenarios to Grow Your Business
Help your customer become more agile by enabling them to quickly spin up and tear down
development and test environments
Application Development/Test
Provide your customers with a highly scalable,
cost-effective website in the cloud
Web Applications
Enable your customers to quickly and cost effectively benefit from the cloud by migrating your customers
existing Virtual Machines to the cloud
Lift and Shift VMs
Infrastructure as a Service
Advanced Management
Platform as a Service
CenturyLink Cloud
Integrated High-Performance Cloud Hosting, Management and Managed Services
Enterprise-grade Hybrid-IT Ready Global PresenceDeveloper Friendly
CenturyLink Cloud: A self-service platform
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+OS
Compute
Storage
Network
Web App
Load Balancing
Messaging
Database
ORCHESTRATION (Blueprints)
AUTOMATION (Scheduling, Monitoring, Policies, Security)
ACCOUNT/IDMANAGEMENT
APIINTEROPERABILITY
CenturyLink Cloud AdvantageA hybrid IT platform designed for cloud–aware and traditional applications. Maintain
control, increase visibility, and be agile.
MANAGEMENT AGILITYCONTROL
• Single portal for public and private cloud services
• Visibility over resource allocation & provisioning
• Centralized billing and reporting with charge back to individual departments
• Simple, high performance, scalable
• Geographic & host diversity • Comprehensive developer toolset• Global integrated network
increases reach
• Role-based access & account management
• Built-in managed services including policies
• Automated deployments using Blueprints
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
CenturyLink’s recognition as “visionary” for the second consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Evaluation for the report was based on the vendors’ ability to execute and completeness of vision. Jared Wray, SVP of Platform said: “This validates the company’s execution in the wake of recent acquisitions and demonstrates its commitment to becoming a cloud company.”
© 2015 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from CenturyLink.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Gartner; Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide Lydia Leong, et al, May 18, 2015
CenturyLink achieves “Visionary” status in Gartner’s 2015 MQ for IaaS
Use Blueprints to Quickly Deploy Key Workloads
Backup/Recovery
Big DataAnalytics
Website Hosting
Custom Apps
Business Apps
Launch quickly Deploy 3rd party applications or complex environments for in-house applications in minutes
Eliminate human error Pre-defined templates automate the installation and configuration of operating systems, applications and more to proven specs
Easily create your own blueprints with an intuitive graphical user interface
And many more…
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More Features and Tools to Help Ensure your Success
Cloud Price Estimator. View and modify the code behind the CenturyLink Cloud Cost Estimator to rebrand it or shape it to your needs.
Knowledge Base and API documentation has been open sourced so you can easily contribute and customize.
Name Your Own Price – makes it easy to setup per account pricing for any cloud service
Groups - Organize customer deployments into logical collections for ease of billing and administration
Open Source Tools - Customize Your Offering
1) Contact Your Ingram Micro Sales Representative
2) View CenturyLink’s vendor pages on the Ingram Micro partner portal
3) Visit our CenturyLink Cloud website: www.centurylinkcloud.com
4) Curtis Ingalls – [email protected] @CURTISINGALLS
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To Learn More About CenturyLink Services
Q&A
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THANK YOU!
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CenturyLink Cloud