Century Link's Managed Services And Solutions Overview
If your business is considering managed services as part of your overall IT strategy, particularly cloud based, then Century Link should definitely be on your short list. Here’s why......
POSITIONED FOR GROWTH
CLOUD APPLICATION MANAGER
SELF-SERVICE APPLICATION CATALOG
- Cloud Application Manager’s intuitive portal allows users to self-serve reusable infrastructure, applications and charts.
- Components can be deployed based on pre-set IT policies.
AUTHENTICATION
- Federated access control, user management and permission definition of an infrastructure provide visibility and auditing capabilities.
ORCHESTRATION
- Customers define applications with infrastructure provisioned at the time of deployment.
- A wide range of inherent automation protocols enables flexibility across heterogeneous environments.
ADMIN & REPORTING
- Extensive administration rules promote IT governance for the delivery of services as well as managing users, namespace, templates, and resources.
- Real-time dashboard for viewing containers, applications, resources, user activity and clusters in use.
AUTO DISCOVERY
- Discover cloud instances already running in other environments, such as other public cloud platforms.
WHAT DOES THE MANAGED SERVICES ANYWHERE FEATURE HAVE TO OFFER?
MONITORING
- OS and Application level monitoring including proactive and reactive support.
- Reduce errors and enhance security
- Leverage experts to monitor the environment, freeing you to focus on your core business needs
CONFIGURATION & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
- CenturyLink takes full responsibility for user policies, administration and password management enforcement.
- CenturyLink confirms the initial install and basic functionality using an OS image built on vendor-recommended best-practices and years of industry experience.
- Managed instances initiate automation processes to update the OS to meet standards and requirements defined by the customer.
PATCHING & UPDATES
- Available support for all critical and vendor-recommended patches — only OS vendor-recommended patches are installed.
- Customers have full control to define scheduled patching cycles.
- Automated systems track change requests, perform patch management and provide detailed reports.
VENDOR & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- CenturyLink maintains ownership and management responsibility for the customer’s underlying VM and OS.
- The customer is freed from managing daily OS-level functions, SPLAs and licenses for Linux and Windows OSs.
- CenturyLink takes full responsibility of the license, regardless of where the instance lives.
- Transparency and Compliance: CenturyLink performs changes for the customer on defined instances and tracks all the changes for auditing purposes.
CONSOLIDATED BILLING AND ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
- Auto-discover pre-existing instance of Microsoft Azure subscriptions.
- Report on CenturyLink Cloud services, Azure Classic, ARM and Azure Stack.
- Cloud Application Manager will also show costs for non-VM resources.
- With the Cloud Edition, pay for only what you need: per hour, per service.
PURCHASE MICROSOFT AZURE DIRECTLY
- Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Virtual Networking.
- Storage: blog, file, and disk.
- Alternatively, use Cloud Application Manager to manage pre-existing Azure instances.
AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT
- Automate Azure deployments to reduce complexity and improve delivery time.
- Natively deploy Azure virtual machine, web and work roles from Cloud Application Manager via API.
WHAT ARE MANAGED SERVICES?
WHY WOULD WE SELL MANAGED SERVICES?
- Single source, turnkey managed services provider offering end-to-end solutions
- Experienced and accountable teams who thrive in IT complexity
- 24×7 follow-the-sun customer support simplifies IT management
- We build for scale, managing services across more than 60 global data centers
- Certified experts improve agility by securing networks, infrastructure, and application environments
- Better financial models and controls help track budgets and predict IT costs
- Keep pace with global competition with scalable IT initiatives
- Collaborative partnership for bimodal IT and digital transformation initiatives
- With simplified management and costs, businesses can focus on market expansion, improved customer experience, and new business opportunities
CCA MANAGED SERVICES ENGAGEMENT MODEL
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