‘Being Ubered’ is a growing and widening concern for all businesses. Every vertical sector has its market disruptors, and they are leveraging the power of digital to transform business to the max. Learn how a hybrid cloud strategy can allow companies and CIOs to digitally transform their business and go from cloud zero to cloud hero. Mateen Fikree, Manager, Solutions Architecture, CenturyLink; Louie Hollmeyer, Moderator, ATC

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A BUSINESS / MARKETING PRESENTATION
The CIO’s Journey to the
Cloud: Cloud Hero or Cloud
Zero?

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OUR DISCUSSION FOR TODAY
The CIOs Journey to the Cloud : Cloud Hero or Cloud Zero
1. INTRODUCTION
Who am I?
2. CENTURYLINK
Our Transformation
3. DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
Transform or Be Transformed
4. CLOUD
IMPORTANCE
Cloud Maturity is Key
5. KEY COMPONENTS
Cloud Key Focus Areas
6. CLOUD LIFECYCLE
The continuous “journey”
7. BEST PRACTICES
Plan Deploy Operate Optimize
8. LIFECYCLE of
SERVICES
Safe Pair of Hands
9. WRAP UP
Q&A

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• Reginal Director Pre-
Sales Architect Team
• 25 Years helping
clients understand the
business value of
technology
• Sales, Solutions
Engineering,
Consulting, Thought
Leadership
“The speed of change is one of the key messages of today's world. Even the most powerful company
in the world knows they have to move dramatically or risk getting left behind,” — John Chambers
Mateen Fikree
Regional Director, CenturyLink US Southeast/Midwest Pre-Sales Architect Team

4. The CenturyLink Story
Data Science and Resource Orchestration
Virtualization and Cloud Management
Data Center Expansion
Network Expansion, Application & Cloud Management and CyberSecurity
Network Expansion
2009
2013
2011
2016-
2018
2015

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‘Being Ubered’ is a growing and widening concern for all businesses - every vertical sector has its
market disruptors, and they are leveraging the power of digital to transform business to the max.
Four key pillars as drivers for digital transformation :
In short Digital Transformation is all about competitive
differentiation.
Enhanced customer
experience
Improved
agility
Operational
efficiency gains
Better management
of business risk
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORM OR BE TRANSFORMED

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PLANNING DEPLOYMENT
KEY COMPONENTS OF A MATURE CLOUD STRATEGY
Areas of Focus
OPERATIONS OPTIMIZATION

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IT’S REALLY A LIFECYCLE
The continuous “journey”
DEPLOY
PLAN
OPERATE
OPTIMIZE

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THE CLOUD LIFECYCLE
The continuous “journey”
DEVELOP/MIGRATE
ASSESS & PLAN
TEST & LAUNCH
DEPLOY & CONFIGURE
COST OPTIMIZATION
AUTOMATE & SCALE
MONITOR & TUNE
SECURITY & GOVERNANCE

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No plan
Little structure
Ad-hoc
development
Low hanging fruit
Basic Plan
Prioritization
Coding Stds
Rehost, Tool Dev
Formal Plan
Business Impact
Code Automation
Replatform Stds
ASSESS PLAN DEVELOP MIGRATE
Good planning and standards insures repeatable success
Zero
Assess
Plan
Develop
Migrate
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y

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Automated Discovery
Best Execution Venue
Micro services, Collab
Migration Factory
No plan
Little structure
Ad-hoc
development
Low hanging fruit
Basic Plan
Prioritization
Coding Stds
Rehost, Tool Dev
Formal Plan
Business Impact
Code Automation
Replatform Stds
Platform Inheritance
Refactoring Stds
ASSESS PLAN DEVELOP MIGRATE
Good planning and standards insures repeatable success
Zero
Hero
Assess
Plan
Develop
Migrate
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
Bus Interviews
ROI, Technical fit

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BEST EXECUTION VENUE
COST
COMPLIANCE PERFORMANCE
What is the best platform for your app?
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On Premise Hosted Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Multi Cloud
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Automated Discovery
Best Execution Venue
Micro services, Collab
Migration Factory
No plan
Little structure
Ad-hoc
development
Low hanging fruit
Basic Plan
Prioritization
Coding Stds
Rehost, Tool Dev
Formal Plan
Business Impact
Code Automation
Replatform Stds
Bus Interviews
ROI, Technical fit
Platform Inheritance
Refactoring Stds
ASSESS PLAN DEVELOP MIGRATE
Good planning and standards insures repeatable success
Zero
?
Hero
Assess
Plan
Develop
Migrate
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y

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DEPLOY CONFIGURE TEST LAUNCH
Reduce manual effort, ensure success
Manual Effort
Admin led
Ad Hoc
Best effort
Min Self-Service
Full Ref Models
Automated
Launch Plan
Full Catalog
DIY
Std templates
Basic Tools
Script-based
Checklist
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
Deploy
Configure
Test
Launch
Full Catalog
Auto Blueprints
Advanced
Soft Launch

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DEPLOY CONFIGURE TEST LAUNCH
Reduce manual effort, ensure success
Manual Effort
Admin led
Ad Hoc
Best effort
Min Self-Service
Full Ref Models
Automated
Launch Plan
Full Catalog
DIY
Std templates
Basic Tools
Script-based
Checklist
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
Deploy
Configure
Test
Launch
Full Catalog
Auto Blueprints
Advanced
Soft Launch
Multi Cloud
Auto Lifecycle
Optimized
Tagging, Post

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DEPLOY CONFIGURE TEST LAUNCH
Reduce manual effort, ensure success
Manual Effort
Admin led
Ad Hoc
Best effort
Min Self-Service
Full Ref Models
Automated
Launch Plan
Full Catalog
DIY
Std templates
Basic Tools
Script-based
Checklist
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
Deploy
Configure
Test
Launch
Full Catalog
Auto Blueprints
Advanced
Soft Launch
Multi Cloud
Auto Lifecycle
Optimized
Tagging, Post

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App, Service,
User
Deploy, Config &
Maintain
Zero
MONITOR TUNE AUTOMATE SCALE
Operate at scale
M a t u r i t y
CPU/Mem/Disk
Little to no
automation
Dependencies,
Discovery
Patch, Version
Control
Multi Hypervisor,
Cloud, Container,
Platform
Automate Ops, AI
Monitor
Tune
Automate
Scale

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App, Service,
User
Deploy, Config &
Maintain
Zero Hero
MONITOR TUNE AUTOMATE SCALE
Operate at scale
M a t u r i t y
CPU/Mem/Disk
Little to no
automation
Dependencies,
Discovery
Patch, Version
Control
Multi Hypervisor,
Cloud, Container,
Platform
Automate Ops, AI
AI/ML, BEV
Balance across EVs
Automate Cost Opt
Monitor
Tune
Automate
Scale

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App, Service,
User
Deploy, Config &
Maintain
Zero Hero
MONITOR TUNE AUTOMATE SCALE
Operate at scale
M a t u r i t y
CPU/Mem/Disk
Little to no
automation
Dependencies,
Discovery
Patch, Version
Control
Multi Hypervisor,
Cloud, Container,
Platform
Automate Ops, AI
Real Time, BEV
Balance across EVs
Automate Cost Opt
Monitor
Tune
Automate
Scale

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Zero
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
COST OPTIMIZATION SECURITY GOVERNANCE
Improve financial and risk governance
No Visibility
Separate bills
Islands of
Controls Only
Reveal & Elim
Rightsizing
Federated IAM/SSO
Central IR/TM
Cost
Optim
Security
Govern
Single Bill
Cost Visibility
Central Visibility
Analytics

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Zero
Hero
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
COST OPTIMIZATION SECURITY GOVERNANCE
Improve financial and risk governance
Manage Reserves
Forecast, Budgets
Real-time Risk &
Compliance Mgmt
Real-time Governance
Tagging
AI, Automated Policy
Management
Cost
Optim
Security
Govern
No Visibility
Separate bills
Islands of
Controls Only
Single Bill
Cost Visibility
Central Visibility
Analytics
Reveal & Elim
Rightsizing
Federated IAM/SSO
Central IR/TM

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Zero
Hero
Cost
Optim
Security
Govern
M
a
t
u
r
i
t
y
COST OPTIMIZATION SECURITY GOVERNANCE
Improve financial and risk governance
Manage Reserves
Forecast, Budgets
Real-time Risk &
Compliance Mgmt
Real-time Governance
Tagging
AI, Automated Policy
Management
No Visibility
Separate bills
Islands of
Controls Only
Single Bill
Cost Visibility
Central Visibility
Analytics
Reveal & Elim
Rightsizing
Federated IAM/SSO
Central IR/TM

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SERVICES ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE
A safe pair of hands to help in your journey
Application Lifecycle
Management
DevOps & Migration
Consulting
Assess & Plan
Consulting
Automated Test &
Service Management
Managed Services &
Central Oper Mgmt
Multi Cloud
Orchestration &
Monitoring
Multi Platform
Security & Governance
Multi Platform Cost
Optimization
Consulting
Platform

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Migration and Policy-Based Deployments
Customer Objective
§Migration & management of
applications to AWS
§Support diverse application
stacks
§Enable collaboration between IT
Ops & Dev
Why New Solution Needed
§Moving from own datacenter to
cloud
§Portability required as they
tested multiple cloud providers
§Scale to support high growth
business
Why ElasticBox
§Quick time to value: Accelerated
migration by 2 years
§Transparency: Visibility &
auditability of all changes
§Flexibility: IT easily creates Boxes
for deployment policies &
configuration
§Agility: Real-time collaboration IT
ops & developers
“ElasticBox has provided us with the technology that we had been looking for, but had never found a great
solution…[ElasticBox] allows us to focus on innovation instead of orchestration.” – VP of IT Operations

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