Frost & Sullivan honors CenturyLink with Company of the Year Award for the North American Cloud Industry
Summary
MONROE, La., Dec. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) has received the 2015 "Company of the Year Award – The Cloud Industry, North America" from Frost & Sullivan, a business research and consulting firm. The award, based on Frost & Sullivans extensive research and a survey of IT decision-makers, recognizes CenturyLinks hybrid IT portfolio for meeting the needs of the next generation of technical and line-of-business cloud users for highly automated, efficient, reliable and flexible IT services. Researchers determined that CenturyLinks technology platform offers a deeper level of application programming interface (API) integration and greater orchestration across more deployment models, components, and environments than competitors. CenturyLinks commitment to cloud includes recent acquisitions, adding Database-as-a-Service (Orchestrate), analytics that help companies derive intelligence from massive data sets (Cognilytics) and disaster-recovery services (DataGardens), among other investments. CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives through innovative technology solutions.