CenturyLink is a global-scale, Fortune 500 service provider that delivers ICT solutions for consumers, enterprises and government institutions. CenturyLink is also a significant contributor to and user of Cloud Foundry, leveraging this cloud-native application technology to transform different parts of its business. CenturyLink will share their Cloud Foundry journey and discuss some of the lessons learned in shifting their development teams to a PaaS mindset.

6. CenturyLink
Cloud Ecosystem
Platform Evangelism
User Enablement
Marketplace
#hybridITfiles
@daveshac

7. CONSTRUCTION
MONETIZATION
DISRUPTION
ADAPTATION
LIFE
AS A
TELCO

8. STRATEGY DECAY

9. INNOVATE

10. INNOVATE

11. Scale
Acquisitions

12. TELEPHONY NETWORK
IS THE PLATFORM

13. DATA NETWORK
IS THE PLATFORM

14. Attribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises
DATACENTER
IS THE PLATFORM

15. PEOPLE
ARE THE PLATFORMAttribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises

16. UNIQUE PLATFORM

17. Scale
Acquisitions

18. COMMON PROBLEMS

19. MESSY
HANDOFFS

20. MARATHON
DEVELOPMENT CYCLES

21. SLOW
DEPLOYMENTS

22. TRICKY
TROUBLESHOOTING

23. PLATFORM
PROLIFERATION

28. Scale
Acquisitions

32. Scale
Acquisitions

34. Transitioning
To A PLATFORM
Mindset

35. A Platform Should Help
Organizations Do New Things

36. Attribution: Dreamworks Animoation
A Platform Should Enable
Self Service

37. A Platform Should Be Well
Documented
Attribution: Heyday Films & 1492 Pictures

38. A Platform Is A Attractive
Landing Place For Partners
Attribution: Lucasfilm

39. A Platform Should Help
You Build More PlatformAttribution: Walt Disney Pictures

40. A Platform Makes Your
Teams More EffectiveAttribution: Escape Artists, New Regency & Regency Enterprises

41. Transitioning
To A PLATFORM
Organization

42. “IT is the factory floor of this century”
Gene Kim

43. LEAN
ü FOCUS ON CUSTOMER VALUE
ü ELIMINATE WASTE
ü REDUCE CYCLE TIME
ü SHARED LEARNING
ü AVOID BATCHING
ü THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

44. DEVOPS
CULTURE
AUTOMATION
MONITORING
SHARING

45. COLLABORATION

46. FULL BUY IN

48. BATMAN

49. BREADTH

50. CLEAR VIEW

51. SHARE TOOLS

55. ROBOTS > HEADCOUNT
Attribution: Illumination Entertainment & Lucasfilm

56. Transitioning
To A PaaS
Model

57. Strategy #1 Use PaaS To Modernize Legacy Apps

58. CenturyLink is using Cloud Foundry
to modernize legacy apps
Public knowledgebase for
CenturyLink Cloud
Government contract sites for
procurement compliance
Customer activation applications in
support of the telecom business
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
business logic applications

59. Strategy #2 Use PaaS To Build Other Services

60. CenturyLink is using Cloud Foundry
to build new “Anywhere” services
Workflow-as-a-Service
Backup Anywhere
Patch Management
Wordpress-as-a-Service

61. Strategy #3 Use PaaS To Help Customers

62. Senior
Exec
IT
Pro
Single-Tenant PaaS
Globally Available & Configurable
Designed for Enterprise Architecture
ONON
Business
Lead
Software
Developer
BYBY
Multi-Tenant PaaS
Global Scale & Automated Resiliency
Deisgned for Developers and Teams
AppFog

63. 63
Small
Teams
Large
Enterprise
Prescriptive
Model
Assembly
Model
SDK | BP | Scale | UC API’s | Bare Metal
CenturyLink Developer Center

64. I’M FEELING BETTER NOW

69. @daveshac
CenturyLink
Thank You