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? Colocation56 global data centers100% uptime SLAGold level support2nd largest provider

 

Managed HostingCustomized solutionsGartner MQ Leader 8 years30,000 servers under management 26 Petabytes of Storage

Architected for the Enterprise by offering 4 9s SLA

Cloud OfferingsPublic, private IaaS32 cloud-enabled DCsHybrid solutions/PaaSManaged Services

Global Network 70 + countries240,000-route mile national fiber network280,000 route miles of international transport networkIP MPLS redundant global backbone

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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 today’s 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

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Strength #1 CenturyLink Sample customer Global Accounting firm Business ChallengesLarge Accounting entity storing lots of content sensitive documentsInternal applications that don’t communicate with each otherHeavy compliance requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley and others)

SolutionNew Fabric Based InfrastructureNew tools to manage the businessUtilize self service capabilities to improve efficiencies

Business ImpactLegacy 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 PaaSAllows for phased approach to be utilized04/15/23 Alex Yandell, CEHv8, ITILv3, TOGAF9 6

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 today’s 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 ImpactSeamless customer experience via My-peer 1 portal, Solutions allows true enterprise features and functionalityIncreased business reach allows a new sales channel of enterprise customersRemoves requirements to provide ping power and pipe.04/15/23 Alex Yandell, CEHv8, ITILv3, TOGAF9 7

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 9’s 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 tools04/15/23 Alex Yandell, CEHv8, ITILv3, TOGAF9 9

Next steps

Offer Letter Acceptance Move to Phoenix Hit the ground running

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