CenturyLink has embarked on multiple data center expansion projects over the past six months in an effort to address an increasing consumer demand for physical and virtual infrastructure services. The company said Wednesday its global data center capacity has increased by 10.8 megawatts to more than 185 megawatts. “Many of our customers are turning to […] More

Hewlett-Packard will offer CenturyLink’s set of information technology platforms and services to its commercial clients as part of an agreement with the latter company. The HP PartnerOne for Service Provider Program deal allows HP clients to choose, purchase and use CenturyLink’s big data, managed hosting, cloud, storage and colocation offerings to help manage cloud-based data infrastructure, CenturyLink said Thursday. […] More

Tim Meehan, CenturyLink’s government senior vice president and general manager, has said more small businesses are starting to adopt a government-backed cyber surveillance tool following the Office of Personnel Management’s data breach, Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes CenturyLink has observed an increase in the number of companies that enter into an agreement with the […] More

Steve White, director of security and compliance at CenturyLink, has explained how the company safeguards customer data in collaboration with Vormetric. White wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that CenturyLink adopts a shared responsibility model for customer data. “In CenturyLink’s shared responsibility model, we provide not only account security, network security and physical security, […] More

LGS Innovations will work as a subcontractor for on an initiative to upgrade the Defense Department’s Research and Engineering Network under a potential 10-year, $750 million contract awarded to CenturyLink in 2012 by the Defense Information Systems Agency. LGS’ task is to develop high-performance network for five supercomputing locations with speeds of 40 gigabits per second for DREN, […] More

Glen Post,  CenturyLink CEO and president, said Tuesday that Ross Garrity, the company’s senior vice president of information technology solutions, will be the interim lead of the global markets group following the retirement of Karen Puckett from the role on Aug. 31. “Ross has over 30 years of IT services experience having served as senior partner […] More

CenturyLink has launched a hydroelectric-powered data center that can back up to 30 megawatts of information technology workload in central Washington. The company said Wednesday the Moses Lake, Washington-based facility will get part of its electricity supply from Columbia River and will provide colocation, network, cloud and managed services to its clients in the area. […] More

CenturyLink has inked an agreement with NEXTDC to outsource the company’s data center services to regional and multinational companies in Australia. CenturyLink is set to roll out network, managed hosting, colocation and cloud services in the country in late 2015, CenturyLink said Monday. Gery Messer, managing director for Asia Pacific at CenturyLink, said the company’s extension […] More

CenturyLink has unveiled its new CenturyLink Technology Center of Excellence in Louisiana, which will house the company’s cloud, network and information technology staff beginning March 26. The company said Tuesday the three-story facility covers an area of 300,000 square feet and includes a network operations center, a technology research and development laboratory as well as office and meeting space. “As […] More

Tim Meehan is senior vice president at CenturyLink who leads the engineering, operations, sales and marketing teams for Platform CenturyLink Government as the company’s general manager for federal business. Platform CenturyLink Government provides cloud, cybersecurity, network and other information technology services to its public sector clients. Prior to CenturyLink, Meehan was vice president for cloud services at […] More

Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow so I think you’ll see […] More

IBM and CenturyLink have formed a public-private partnership with the state of Louisiana to open an application development innovation center in the region and facilitate high-tech job opportunities for local graduates. IBM said Monday the Monroe-based center will perform services in cloud computing, big data, analytics, security and mobility as part of the company’s 10-year business transformation […] More