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Fast Track to Cloud – Fast Track to Cloud – and Business Agilityand Business AgilityCenturyLink™ Enterprise Cloud Networking

“How do I deliver superior value with limited resources?”

“How do I stay ahead of smaller, more innovative competitors?”

“How can I connect with my customers in a crowded marketplace?”

Competitive Pressures

BEFORE

Wanted to engage younger consumers

Needed a social media solution in record time

Wanted a low-risk way to test new applications and processes before committing resources

AFTER

Launched a site in weeks

Marketing ran the project

Proved application value without large up-front investment

Leading Insurance Provider

Deploy a full data center on demand?

Achieve enterprise-grade compliance, security and performance?

Pay only for what you use when you use it?

What would that mean for your business?

What If You Could…

The Promise of the Cloud

Performance ControlSpeed

CFO: “What will it cost now and in the future?”

IT: “How do I support this?”Line-of-business Head:

“I need this NOW!”

Your Challenges

Minimize up-front costs to test and deploy applications

Avoid stranded capital investment

Add capacity as needed

Financial Perspective

"Savvis has been very agile with us as we have changed our demands."

- Greg Fay, Director of Technology, Hallmark Digital

“If an airline’s systems go down for more than four hours, the entire

easyJet fleet has to be grounded.” - Andy Caddy, Chief Architect, easyJet

Enterprise-grade reliability

Best-of-breed hardware

Global high-performance network

IT Perspective

E-commerce/Retail: Peak seasonal demand

Financial Services: Spikes in online transactions

Web 2.0/Social Computing: Scale to meet rapid growth

Examples

Communications, Media & Entertainment (CME): Special events and breaking news

Life Sciences/ Biotechnology/Energy: Server proliferation for workgroups and projects

ISVs (SaaS): Support SaaS growth

Examples

Best of breed hardware

Global high performance Network

SAS-70 data centers

Easy to use portal for access & control

Security services

SLAs from 99.9% to 100%

High performance servers & storage

24/7/365 global support

Support for hybrid environments

Enterprise-Level Infrastructure

Public Cloud Efficiencies

Time

IT Infr

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Cost

Traditional Hardware Expense

Projected Demand

Actual Demand

Cloud Expense

Opportunity Cost

Lost Business

Transform your IT

Perform at a lower cost with greater agility

With CenturyLink, You Can…

…quickly on demand