Name: CenturyLink Cloud Overview
Uploaded: 2015-03-25T02:34:21.000Z
Duration: 50 min 15 s
Description: 50 minute Overview of CenturyLink Public Cloud

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Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

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Accounting

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Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Automation

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

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Workforce Analytics

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Human Resources

AI Agent Builder

App Development

Browser

Cloud Storage

Component Content Management

Data Center Infrastructure Management

Fraud Detection

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Internet of Things (IoT)

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Security Awareness Training

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

VoIP Monitoring

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Business Card Scanning

Content Management

Data Management

Digital Analytics

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Management

Email Marketing

Event Registration

Graphics

Heatmap and Session Recording

Marketing Automation

Marketing OS

Online Reputation Management

Real-Time Interaction Management

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Management

Social Media Publishing

Survey & Forms Building

Swag Management

Web Analytics

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Business Caller ID

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Assisted Living

Car Rental

Church Management

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The Lumen Public Cloud, developed by Lumen Technologies, is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform designed for hosting virtual private cloud servers and bare metal cloud servers. It offers a scalable and flexible solution for businesses of all sizes, catering to both small businesses and large enterprises. The Lumen Public Cloud is widely used by IT professionals, developers, software development companies, e-commerce businesses, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions.

## Key Features

**Load Balancer**: According to the vendor, the load balancer enables infrastructure scalability to meet application demands and ensures fast delivery of applications to end users. It is delivered as a service, allowing developers to focus on application development.

**Pricing**: The vendor offers various load balancer subscription options, including Cloud Load Balancer Subscription, Cloud Load Balancer Usage, and Shared Load Balancer, each priced per hour.

**Resources**: The vendor provides a comprehensive knowledge base with articles on load balancing configurations, HTTP and SSL pools, and more. Self-Service Load Balancing FAQs are also available for additional information.

**Related Products**: Lumen Technologies offers additional products such as Firewall, Cloud Servers, VPN, DNS, and Direct Connect.

**Public Cloud Servers**: The vendor claims that the Lumen Public Cloud allows users to deploy virtual private cloud servers with unique security, performance, and management capabilities. It is suitable for both small development initiatives and robust enterprise IT operations.

**Bare Metal Cloud Servers**: According to the vendor, the Lumen Public Cloud combines the computing power and single tenancy of a physical server with the flexibility and automation of a virtual machine. Users can deploy bare metal cloud servers in minutes and integrate them with virtual machines for a hybrid IT solution.

**Unified Administration**: The vendor states that the Lumen Public Cloud allows users to automate daily server administration and cloud management functions with power operations, logical grouping, and APIs to simplify complex tasks and free up IT staff.

**Infrastructure**: Users can provision high-performing virtual machines with various operating systems, storage, and memory options. The Lumen Public Cloud relies on fully redundant enterprise-class hardware and high-speed virtual LANs.

**Run a Variety of Modern Operating Systems**: The vendor claims that users can choose from a range of operating systems, including Windows Server, CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu, to run on their servers.


CenturyLink Public Cloud was a set of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS and cloud management tools. Later rebranded to Lumen, Lumen recommends the service's former customers migrate to Lumen Cloud Connect.

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50 minute Overview of CenturyLink Public Cloud

CenturyLink Cloud Overview

Agitare Technologies, Inc and CenturyLink®  invite you to an overview of  CenturyLinks all-in-one cloud platform that delivers high-performance, secure, reliable and scalable cloud solutions for all workloads.

The objective of this session is to introduce the CenturyLink Cloud platform to attendees. Specifically this session will cover the following:  

• CenturyLink Cloud vision and roadmap 
• Overview of CenturyLink Cloud Capabilities 
• Customer Use Cases for CenturyLink Cloud 
• Discussion of CenturyLink Cloud Architecture 
• Product Demo that showcases the underlying architecture to support customer use cases 

Speaker:    

Eric Schubert, Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect will spend most of the session presenting a demo of CenturyLink Cloud and it’s capabilities. The session will review configuring CenturyLink Cloud, networking, storage, automation, billing, management and reporting.

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Dynamic scaling

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Monitoring tools

Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

Pre-defined machine images

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Security controls

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We used it primarily for app hosting within an individual department

Offloading the requirements for hosting apps in house - cost savings
Access ability - users could access documents and programs from anywhere
Collaborative work ability - multiple users could work within the same enviornment

Perhaps ease of use - it's not convoluted but a little more streamlined of an interface would be great
Make your presence more known - in a world of heavily advertised cloud options CenturyLink is not at the top of the pile and I think it may be due to a lack of awareness in the business community. Advertise!
Streamline functionality - interface can be a little slow at times.

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