The data centre application environments you know and love are now available in the cloud.
Extending applications into the cloud should expand your options without adding complexity. CenturyLink is one of the first cloud providers to partner with virtualisation leader VMware to offer vCloud® Air™, a secure hybrid cloud platform built on vSphere. VMware's data centre virtualisation software with CenturyLink's network and data centre infrastructure gives customers ease, agility, and flexibility as they move their workloads to a hybrid IT environment.
Whether you’ve deployed an on-site private cloud, off-site public cloud, or virtual private cloud, the ability to support your investment in applications running in a VMware environment is crucial to application and workload migration. vCloud Air is offered by CenturyLink as a public cloud, private cloud or hybrid cloud depending upon your company’s needs and budget giving you:
A hybrid virtual public cloud solution
Cost-efficient infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Global network access and interconnections
Rapid testing, development and deployment of applications
Pay-as-you-go application environments
Increased application flexibility and IT agility
Data centre capacity to meet growth requirements
Cost-effectively implement disaster recovery
While our private and public cloud offerings are wholly powered by VMware software, all CenturyLink co-location and hosting offerings may also be virtualised by VMware. For companies who have a cloud initiative or who are running virtualised environments, CenturyLink and VMware can deliver reliable virtualised environments from any mix of CenturyLink's network, co-location, hosting, and cloud services.
Learn more about the partnership of CenturyLink and VMware vCloud Air
Rapidly move application workloads from the data centre to the hybrid cloud.
Get the flexibility of the cloud with the security, reliability and consistency of the data centre. Run your applications in a dependable and familiar virtualised workload environment using vCloud Air running on a leading secure and reliable cloud infrastructure from CenturyLink.
Seamlessly unite hybrid, multiple clouds on a global scale interconnected by CenturyLink’s global network. CenturyLink Cloud® Network Services enhance the vCloud Air networking connectivity with low-latency connections, security and reliability, end to end.
Give your company coordinated management, scalability, networking, and security models across both onsite and offsite environments. The CenturyLink vCloud Air platform supports over 5,000 applications and over 90 different operating systems already certified to run on vSphere and it doesn't require any time consuming or additional costs to move them to the cloud.
While maintaining a complete view of the infrastructure, you can build hybrid IT applications that leverage both on-premises and cloud resources. And you can take advantage of storage, backup, and recovery options with increased efficiency and reduced cost.
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Application Environment Options Available in the Cloud
Get the best vCloud options through our partnership with VMware.
vCloud Air services from CenturyLink give VMware users a familiar and reliable way to transition to the cloud. CenturyLink not only hosts vCloud Air nodes in our data centres around the world, but we have utilised our expertise to provide customers with fully managed hybrid cloud options based on the vCloud Air platform featuring:
Infrastructure that includes CPU, memory and disk
Compute, storage, network access and public IP Addresses
Built-in redundancy, high availability, firewalling, load balancing, NAT, DHCP, IPsec, VPN and disk I/O included
Support for over 90 operating systems and thousands of applications
Integrated “single pane of glass” management
Wide range of disaster recovery features
Support for HIPAA / HITECH compliance regulations
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS _____
We offer three vCloud Air subscription services with support for existing workloads and new application development.
Dedicated Private Cloud A single-tenant, physically isolated IaaS platform operated by VMware and compatible with on premise vSphere environments, for true hybrid functionality.
30GHz of compute (vCPU) capacity
120GB of vRAM
6TB of storage
3 public IP addresses
50Mbps network link, burstable to 1Gbps
Virtual Private Cloud A secure, vSphere compatible multi-tenant, IaaS platform operated by VMware. Virtual Private Cloud is a high performance, highly available public cloud service that includes a pool of compute, storage and private networking resources.
10GHz of compute (vCPU) capacity
20GB of vRAM
2TB of Storage
2 public IP addresses
10Mbps network link, burstable to 50Mbps
Disaster Recovery as a Service Business continuity and disaster recovery are paramount for ensuring your business critical environment, data, and online presence are available with minimal downtime. The availability services offered on vCloud Air help ensure that your data is protected, recoverable and accessible to you and your customers.
10GHz of compute (vCPU) capacity
20GB of vRAM
1TB of Storage
2 public IP addresses
10Mbps network link, burstable to 50Mbps
Each of the above service options also include:
Domain Name Service (DNS)
Monitoring
Software and Security Patch Deployment
Hot-Fixes and Patches
Operating System and Managed Application Software Upgrades
User Privileges
Unix-Based Servers
URL, TCP and ICMP Monitoring
URL Check Options
vCloud Air Management Manage your vCloud environments through vCenter or vCloud director and get policy-driven management and automation in a single unified management platform. This allows you to centrally manage and monitor all applications and workloads across an integrated configuration of environments. Your company maintains complete IT control with increased cost-efficiency, speed and agility.
See the complete picture through a single pane of glass Manage your cloud environments through a single portal, and get a complete view of all resources, eliminating the expense of acquiring expertise in a variety of platforms.
Enjoy a consistent user experience Diverse workloads can run seamlessly in well-connected, on-premise and vCloud Air environments, creating an always-predictable user experience.
Get full, global data access CenturyLink's worldwide data centres, coupled with vCloud Air data centres can easily address customers' data sovereignty issues and reduce latency to help customers work more productively and securely.
Hosting Area Network
Get secure, high-bandwidth Internet connectivity integrated on the MPLS backbone inside the datacenter to help ensure access to workloads and control Internet access to remote locations.
Load Balancing and SSL Acceleration
CenturyLink IQ®+ (MPLS) network access in over 300+ data centres with direct and cross-connection options for co-location, managed hosting and public cloud
Direct connection to AWS® and MS Azure® Cloud Platforms
Private and Public VLAN options
Public Internet Options through CenturyLink and other network providers
Customer Portal
Ability to access monitoring, reporting and provisioning, all through an easy to use customer portal
Proactive support through custom reporting, analytics and recommendations
Today's enterprises need better options to manage their hybrid IT platforms, along with the ability to build, scale, and operate cloud services that maximise business opportunities. Through its strategic relationship with VMware, CenturyLink makes it all possible. And as a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions, CenturyLink is frequently at the top of the list when companies want to migrate to the cloud.
As CenturyLink transforms itself from a telecommunications business to a provider of advanced network and IT services, it is adopting a bimodal IT strategy to achieve improved agility, faster time to market and reduced costs. Migrating a large portion of its IT operations to CenturyLink Cloud is a critical part of this process.
