1. CenturyLink Cloud: The Partner Opportunity Curtis Ingalls Global Cloud Alliance Sr. Mgr

2. Who is CenturyLink? FORTUNE 158 TOP 3 COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER 20% WORLD’S INTERNET TRAFFIC $18B REVENUE 48,000 EMPLOYEES 98% FORTUNE 500

3. The Cloud Opportunity The Cloud Customer The Partner Opportunity 3 What We’ll Cover Today…

4. The Cloud Opportunity

5. Cloud/Managed Services: Double Digit Growth Source: IDC, November 2014 22.8% Managed Services Market ($B) Source: Market & Market Managed Services Market Report, January 2015 Worldwide Public IT Cloud Services Spending ($B) 12.5% 5

6. Cloud Adoption Drivers + ++ Improve Business Agility 59% Reduce Cost 56% Better support Business Needs 44% TechValidate Research, CenturyLink Cloud Customer Research, Oct 2014 6

7. IT budget growth forecast: IDC, Nov 2014 Hybrid forecast: Gartner, 2013 Top Applications: TechValidate Research, CenturyLink Cloud Customer Research, Oct 2014 Businesses Are Moving More Workloads To Cloud Backup/ Recovery Application Dev/Test Big Data Website Hosting Custom Apps Examples of Cloud Applications Customers Need Business Apps 7

8. Cloud Customer

9. Increased agility & shorter time to market IT CHALLENGES Prioritizing budgets, people, systems BUSINESS DEMANDS Need more of everything, faster Cost containment Accelerating Business Demands really Challenge IT Revenue growth & profitability Increased productivity Mobile & Social eCommerce Resource acquisition, retention, skills, and training Complexity Compliance Shorter implementation cycles 9

10. Hybrid IT Adoption Source: Gartner Enterprises pursing an internal hybrid IT strategy Infrastructure mix that includes at least one external option beyond on-premise data center deployments - data center colocation, managed services, and cloud offerings 74 % By 2015

11. Hybrid IT Solutions Drive Innovation & Growth 11 23% Innovation 30% Monitoring and Maintenance 24% Deployment 23% Pre-Systems Deployment 77% ADMIN AND MAINTENANC E ACTIVITIES 50% Innovation 20% Monitoring and Maintenance 15% Deployment 15% Pre-Systems Deployment 50% ADMIN AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES Utilize more of your fixed resources for business innovation & growth BEFORE Fixed IT costs of M/O Private Data Center AFTER Outsourcing Routine/admin Tasks Source: IDC Research, 2014

12. Key Deployment Scenarios and Top Verticals Backup/ Recovery Big Data Analytics Website Hosting Custom Apps Business Apps And many more… Computer Software (ISVs) Computer Services Professional Services Financial Services Health Care Dev/Test

13. Key Customers Benefits 69% Reduced Capital Expenditure 66% Reported Increased IT Staff Productivity 65% Reported Increased Agility 53% Reported Reduced Time to Provision IT Source: CenturyLink Customer Survey, 2014

14. The Partner Opportunity

15. Customers Need Guidance Navigate the complex array of cloud solution choices Want an established relationship with a vendor to trust them as a cloud service provider

16. 16 Be Your Customer’s Trusted Advisor On-Premise Resources Cloud Resources Integration DATACENTER Trusted Advisor COLOCATION NETWORK CenturyLink Cloud

17. Key Cloud Scenarios to Grow Your Business Help your customer become more agile by enabling them to quickly spin up and tear down development and test environments Application Development/Test Provide your customers with a highly scalable, cost-effective website in the cloud Web Applications Enable your customers to quickly and cost effectively benefit from the cloud by migrating your customers existing Virtual Machines to the cloud Lift and Shift VMs

18. Strengthen Your Customer Relationships Opportunities With Your Existing Customers Selected Examples Value to Your Customers On Premise Servers “Lift and Shift” On- Premise VMs On-Premise Disaster & Recovery Plan Cloud Backup / Disaster Recovery On-Premise Applications High Performance Web Applications Offline Patient Database HIPAA Compliant Web Database Flexibility/ Control Lower TCO Improved Agility

19. Infrastructure as a Service Advanced Management Platform as a Service CenturyLink Cloud Integrated High-Performance Cloud Hosting, Management and Managed Services Enterprise-gradeHybrid-IT Ready Global Presence Developer Friendly

20. CenturyLink Cloud: A self-service platform 20 + OS Compute Storage Network Web App Load Balancing Messaging Database ORCHESTRATION (Blueprints) AUTOMATION (Scheduling, Monitoring, Policies, Security) ACCOUNT/ID MANAGEMENT API INTEROPERABILITY

21. CenturyLink Cloud Advantage A hybrid IT platform designed for cloud–aware and traditional applications. Maintain control, increase visibility, and be agile. MANAGEMENT AGILITYCONTROL Single portal for public and private cloud services Visibility over resource allocation & provisioning Centralized billing and reporting with charge back to individual departments Simple, high performance, scalable Geographic & host diversity Comprehensive developer toolset Global integrated network increases reach Role-based access & account management Built-in managed services including policies Automated deployments using Blueprints

22. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide CenturyLink’s recognition as “visionary” for the second consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Evaluation for the report was based on the vendors’ ability to execute and completeness of vision. Jared Wray, SVP of Platform said: “This validates the company’s execution in the wake of recent acquisitions and demonstrates its commitment to becoming a cloud company.” © 2015 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from CenturyLink. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Gartner; Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide Lydia Leong, et al, May 18, 2015 CenturyLink achieves “Visionary” status in Gartner’s 2015 MQ for IaaS

23. Use Blueprints to Quickly Deploy Key Workloads Backup/ Recovery Big Data Analytics Website Hosting Custom Apps Business Apps Launch quickly Deploy 3rd party applications or complex environments for in-house applications in minutes Eliminate human error Pre-defined templates automate the installation and configuration of operating systems, applications and more to proven specs Easily create your own blueprints with an intuitive graphical user interface And many more…

24. 24 More Features and Tools to Help Ensure your Success Cloud Price Estimator. View and modify the code behind the CenturyLink Cloud Cost Estimator to rebrand it or shape it to your needs.Cloud Price Estimator Knowledge BaseKnowledge Base and API documentation has been open sourced so you can easily contribute and customize.API documentation Name Your Own Price – makes it easy to setup per account pricing for any cloud service Groups - Organize customer deployments into logical collections for ease of billing and administration Open Source Tools - Customize Your Offering

25. 1) Contact Your Ingram Micro Sales Representative 2) View CenturyLink’s vendor pages on the Ingram Micro partner portal 3) Visit our CenturyLink Cloud website: www.centurylinkcloud.com www.centurylinkcloud.com 4) Curtis Ingalls – curtis.ingalls@centurylink.comcurtis.ingalls@centurylink.com Twitter @CURTISINGALLS 25 To Learn More About CenturyLink Services

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