CenturyLink,
Inc. today announced the acquisition of Tier 3, an innovative provider of public
cloud services based in the Seattle area. Tier 3's cloud platform is immediately
available as "CenturyLink Cloud." In addition, Tier 3's products, roadmap and
vision are now the foundation of CenturyLink's cloud strategy and anchor the new
Seattle-based CenturyLink Cloud Development Center.
"Our
mission is to provide world-class managed services to global businesses on
virtual, dedicated and colocation infrastructures. Tier 3's innovative
automation and self-service platform are game-changing for our global enterprise
clients," said Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink's Savvis organization.
"From greenfield development to mission-critical apps, businesses have a trusted
technology partner to seize new market opportunities. This acquisition
underscores our continued commitment to delivering the most complete portfolio
of cloud services."
Jared Wray, the
founder and chief technology officer for Tier 3, will now serve as chief
technology officer for the CenturyLink Cloud organization and lead the
CenturyLink Cloud Development Center. Leveraging the philosophy and processes at
the heart of Tier 3's cloud innovation - including embracing agile DevOps and
open-source development - the Cloud Development Center will bring together cloud
development expertise and unite CenturyLink cloud technical resources to develop
innovative services.
"We founded Tier
3 in 2006 with a vision for cloud services that make life easier for enterprise
developers and IT alike. We now have an amazing home at CenturyLink to carry
this vision forward," Wray said. "Our platform roadmap will combine with
CenturyLink's global network and data center footprint and managed services team
to help change the face of enterprise computing."
The new
CenturyLink Cloud - based on Tier 3's public, multi-tenant cloud - targets
complex enterprise workloads and is user-friendly for businesses of all sizes.
With the product's self-service interface,
administrators can quickly create and manage highly available public cloud
environments. A web services API and Cloud Foundry-based Platform-as-a-Service
provide a comprehensive cloud application toolkit for enterprise developers.
Recent analyst reports have recognized Tier 3's depth of
capabilities
and performance.
This
acquisition builds on CenturyLink's earlier AppFog acquisition and existing
cloud solutions that are complemented
by CenturyLink's colocation, managed services and network offerings. The
CenturyLink Cloud is available today in nine data centers around the
world.
CenturyLink
acquired Tier 3 for an undisclosed price.
For more
information, visit
www.centurylinkcloud.com.