CenturyLink® Releases Enhancements In Its Private Cloud Service

CenturyLink^® recently declared that it has made several enhancements to its private cloud service. This will enable businesses to use their applications with the flexibility offered by a public cloud service along with the security and performance provided by a dedicated network infrastructure. The enhancements to the private cloud service also led the Telco to introduce the Dedicated Cloud Compute (DCC) Foundation.

Based on VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE ProLiant servers, this is an updated architecture adopting the model of a software-defined data center (SDDC). This will facilitate automation of several of the tasks and will aid in bringing forward the services offered by private cloud on demand. Businesses will find this very helpful, as it will help them to surpass the many challenges involved in provisioning, configuration errors, and other processes. CenturyLink^® has made available this new private cloud service to customers and partners in the U.S. and other continents such as Europe and Asia Pacific.

David Shacochis, vice president of Hybrid IT product management, CenturyLink^® said, “With today’s digital economy fueling increased demands on IT infrastructure, the latest enhancements to our Dedicated Cloud Compute (DCC) service, based on VMware Cloud Foundation, build on CenturyLink’s proficiency in helping enterprises in their digital transformation. “The software-defined data center approach enables the flexible delivery of enterprise applications connected to our global network across 32 hosting locations on four continents. With this service, businesses can rapidly deploy new workloads and innovations in an easily scalable, highly secure environment.”

The DCC Foundation set up by CenturyLink^® is created using the VMware Cloud Foundation. It is an enhanced form of cloud network infrastructure, which speeds up the time to market value of businesses, particularly IT companies, through its factory integrated cloud infrastructure. Included in VMware Cloud Foundation are numerous software-defined services that can be used for computing, networking storage, and security solutions.

Businesses can benefit a lot by applying the DCC Foundation in their infrastructure. This includes lowering of the total ownership costs, enhanced security, access to the best internet service, and a simplification in the entire range of operations. CenturyLink’s DCC Foundation offers minimizing of security risks, flexibility in deploying the options globally, predictability in performance, etc.

Geoff Waters, Vice President of Global Cloud Sales at VMware stated, “Working with partners such as CenturyLink^®, VMware’s cloud strategy is to help customers run, manage, connect and secure their entire application portfolio across clouds and devices, leveraging a common operating environment. Together we will help our mutual customers drive digital transformation and gain the greatest advantage from cloud computing.”