In recognition of the market’s rapidly increasing appetite for flexible hybrid IT capabilities such as colocation and cloud consumption, CenturyLink is expanding its global data centre footprint and leading-edge innovations for data centre hosting services.
In 2015, CenturyLink added 14 megawatts of critical capacity at eight data centres, and in the first half of 2016, the Company plans to further increase capacity in four data centres. In the last five years, CenturyLink has completed 39 data centre expansion projects and added 11 new data centers. The Company currently offers approximately 2.62 million square feet of gross raised floor space throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
“With global enterprises and service providers under increasing pressure to become more agile, many are utilizing hybrid IT solutions to achieve key business objectives,” said David Meredith, senior vice president, global data centres, CenturyLink. “We are announcing today our continuing and expanding commitment to help our customers achieve those objectives.”
Partnering with CenturyLink enables organizations to take a hybrid IT approach and deliver on the value of data centre colocation, managed hosting and cloud services, plus a top-tier network. This creates highly cost-efficient outsourced infrastructures, which free up internal resources to focus on business technology innovation.
As a leading provider of hybrid IT solutions across colocation, managed hosting, cloud, network and IT services, CenturyLink is committed to operational excellence in its data centres, and is the first company to pursue Uptime Institute’s M&O Stamp of Approval at the global portfolio level. The majority of CenturyLink’s data centres have already achieved the M&O Stamp of Approval, with the process slated to be completed by the end of 2016. In the past two months alone, three facilities in Singapore and Toronto achieved Uptime Institute M&O Stamp of Approval, and two separate facilities in Chicago and Toronto received Tier III Silver Certification of Operational Sustainability. The Tier III certifications and M&O Stamp of Approval by Uptime Institute, an unbiased advisory organization focused on improving the performance, efficiency and reliability of business critical infrastructure through innovation, collaboration and independent certifications, provide assurance that CenturyLink’s data centres meet industry-recognized criteria for operational excellence, risk management and reliability.
Other independent organizations have also recognized CenturyLink’s data centre innovations. The Company won a TMC InfoTECH Spotlight Data Centre Excellence Award in January, and last year won the Network World Asia Data Centre Infrastructure Management Award.
CenturyLink has also achieved many innovations, including:
· Improved data center density by 34 percent over the last 2.5 years; ?
· Implemented new high-efficiency cooling technologies; ?
· Integrated wireless sensors for precise temperature and humidity monitoring;
· Retrofitted several facilities with smart-control LED lighting.
