Case Study: CenturyLink achieves private cloud deployments in weeks instead of months with VMware Cloud Foundation (VMware)

CenturyLink Service providers’ end customers expect faster service and a provider who can meet many of their IT needs

CenturyLink, a Louisiana‑based telecom, helps enterprises connect to cloud, network and application services across a global footprint (31 private cloud locations, 2,560+ data centers, 450,000+ miles of fiber). Faced with the need to reduce time and cost for packaging and deploying build‑to‑order private clouds, and to streamline architecture, testing, monitoring and management, CenturyLink needed automation and a single control interface to enable rapid, customizable deployments for diverse enterprise requirements.

By combining VMware Cloud Foundation with the vCloud Director interface and CenturyLink’s managed services and extensive connectivity, the company delivered an automated, software‑defined private cloud that scales from small to very large VM environments under one interface. The solution cut deployment timelines from months to weeks, provided a flexible, customizable architecture to meet a broad range of customer needs, and delivered the agility customers expect from hyperconverged, network‑aware cloud services.

CenturyLink

Steve Nolen

Senior Product Manager