CenturyLink Providing Long-time Customer Procter & Gamble with Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

CenturyLink, Inc. has forged a new hybrid cloud partnership with The Procter & Gamble Company. Through the new arrangement, the MSP will provide outsourced IT infrastructure services to the consumer packaged goods giant, in a bid to transform the way the company internally procures and consumes IT services.

The new agreement expands the long-time relationship between the companies, which began when CenturyLink operated as Savvis. The MSP will now offer Procter & Gamble hybrid IT services through a consumption-based pricing model designed to help the company become more agile in its corporate IT strategy.

Procter & Gamble employees will have an opportunity to bundle and select specific technology services they need, when they need them, through the new arrangement. CenturyLink will also be providing access to a variety of technologies via its partner ecosystem, from companies like Cisco, NetApp and SAP. The customized solution for Procter & Gamble includes consulting, dedicated support desk services and application services. These include cloud and managed hosting, which are designed to drive flexibility and access to new technologies for Procter & Gamble.

"We look forward to working closely with Procter & Gamble, as we have over the past 15 years as Savvis and now as CenturyLink, consistently delivering innovative technologies as we both evolve and grow," said Jeff Von Deylen, president, CenturyLink Technology Solutions. "We are proud to expand our relationship by helping them drive a strategic IT vision that delivers more value for its global business."

CenturyLink has been busy building out their infrastructure, and announced a partnership with IO last month to expand their colocation footprint. The MSP is using the IO Intelligent Control technology platform to make deployments at IO Phoenix and IO Scottsdale in Arizona. The IO platform provides integrated control, data collection and business intelligence across data center infrastructure, IT equipment, applications and data center users and has been integrated with CenturyLink’s set of colocation and managed services and cloud offerings.

The MSP’s cloud push really began in November, when CenturyLink acquired massive cloud and IaaS player Tier 3. That move integrated the company’s IaaS, PaaS and cloud management offerings and made the MSP a contender against IaaS giants Amazon and Microsoft. The acquisition followed the company’s buyout of colocation giant Savvis as well AppFog, a provider of cloud solutions.