CenturyLink announced enhancements to its private cloud service, the Dedicated Cloud Compute(DCC) foundation with VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE ProLiant servers for hyperconverged infrastructure.
Available now to customers and partners in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, this enhanced DCC platform is an updated architecture moving to a converged, software-defined data center model. It is designed to help businesses overcome challenges of lengthy provisioning, configuration errors and costly processes by automating labor-intensive tasks and operationalizing the promise of private cloud on-demand.
CenturyLink DCC Foundation on VMware Cloud Foundation transforms it to an advanced cloud infrastructure platform that accelerates IT's time-to-market by providing a factory-integrated cloud infrastructure stack that is simple to use. VMware Cloud Foundation includes a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking and security.
Software-defined data center technology and hyper-converged infrastructure deliver a single, software-defined infrastructure platform for deployment and management of all data center resources. This includes compute, storage, networks and security built on a powerful API-based, software-defined layer, said CenturyLink.
In addition, integration of DCC Foundation with CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager further enhances support of multi-tiered hybrid-cloud configurations.
CenturyLink claims that it runs one of the world's largest VMware clouds, with more than 100,000 virtual machines under management for enterprise and government clients which deliver critical applications over a global network spanning numerous countries.
David Shacochis, VP of Hybrid IT Product Management, CenturyLink
The software-defined datacenter 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.
Geoff Waters, VP, Global Cloud Sales, VMware
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.
