CenturyLink has launched a new orchestration platform CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager which is designed to simplify deployment of enterprise workloads, managed services and third-party cloud resources. Cloud Application Manager combines new investment in the automated delivery of CenturyLink managed services with recently acquired ElasticBox technology.
This cloud-agnostic management platform enables companies to better manage applications and workloads across hybrid hosting environments – in customer private clouds, colocation centers and public cloud environments, said the company. This global platform also enables automated deployment of expert managed services from CenturyLink for application and infrastructure management. Users can use Cloud Application Manager via the cloud version (SaaS) or a virtual appliance that runs on-premises in their data center.
Cloud Application Manager includes:
- Application lifecycle management – Customers and partners can manage applications from build phase through deployment and run-state. Once deployed, customer-defined automation policies enable customers to scale, update, and migrate applications across environments.
- Managed services anywhere – Customers and partners can select CenturyLink Managed Services for on-demand monitoring, patching, backup and remote administration across any hybrid hosting environment.
- Cloud optimization – Customers and partners can leverage existing public cloud accounts, or provision new subscriptions directly through the Cloud Application.
- Manager platform – simplifying vendor management and consolidating billing of multi-cloud deployments.
Additionally, Cloud Application Manager enables customers to better manage costs and spending on the various cloud platforms while making recommendations on the ideal place to run workloads, said the company.
David Shacochis, VP of Hybrid IT Product Management, CenturyLink
We designed Cloud Application Manager to give our customers a wide variety of infrastructure options across diverse public and private cloud environments. Cloud Application Manager helps companies avoid vendor lock-in, automate application deployments, scale workloads across disparate hosting environments, and optimize their costs over time.
Lynda Stadtmueller, VP of Cloud Services, Stratecast|Frost & Sullivan
CenturyLink is delivering on the cloud strategy they've been articulating for several years. The Cloud Application Manager platform will enable end-users to easily move into a multi-cloud environment.
