CenturyLink launching hybrid cloud in Asia-Pac

[SINGAPORE] CenturyLink, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions, last week announced a new private cloud service that it says would deliver the agility and innovation of a public cloud but with the physical standards that many large enterprises require.

According to the company, which is the third largest telecommunications company in the US, each private cloud would sit within the CenturyLink Cloud network of public cloud nodes. In effect, this will give users a single interface for creating and maintaining a hybrid environment that spans both public and private clouds. The end result is greater agility for businesses across a broader range of workloads - even those that require additional security and compliance, the company says.

CenturyLink's Gery Messer told BizIT that the cloud service would be available across 57 data centres globally including Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Mr Messer is the Asia-Pacific MD for CenturyLink Technology Solutions, which is the data hosting operating business unit of CenturyLink.