CenturyLink announced the acquisition of ElasticBox, a multi-cloud application management service. This acquisition combines the ElasticBox platform with the global network, hosting and delivery capabilities of CenturyLink.
ElasticBox, a startup with offices in San Francisco and Madrid, enables enterprise IT organizations to orchestrate the deployment of applications and create a self-service catalog of applications and infrastructure. It provides application orchestration for more than 12 different cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, IBM's SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure and VMware.
ElasticBox recently added support for CenturyLink Cloud and more feature support for Google Compute Engine and OpenStack. It also supports Docker and Amazon ECS containers, and has also added Kubernetes as another destination for applications. These deployment options enable customers to package a range of applications into a container and manage it via ElasticBox.
According to Century Link, with the acquisition, new resources and innovations from CenturyLink are expected to improve with the company leveraging the ElasticBox hybrid cloud application management platform to deliver end-to-end network, multi-cloud and hybrid IT managed services.
Aamir Hussain, Chief Technology Officer, CenturyLink
The acquisition of ElasticBox strengthens and enhances CenturyLink's development and deployment of multi-cloud services management capabilities, as well as our ability to deliver end-to-end network and hybrid IT services to business customers globally. The ElasticBox multi-cloud management platform frees businesses to focus on issues that are central to their organization rather than spending time and resources managing multiple clouds.
