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  • Glen Post: Ross Garrity to Serve as CenturyLink Global Markets Interim Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Glen Post: Ross Garrity to Serve as CenturyLink Global Markets Interim Lead

    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

  • Lisa Bruch, Mike Leff: GSA Eyes Telecom Evolution for Agencies Under EIS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Bruch, Mike Leff: GSA Eyes Telecom Evolution for Agencies Under EIS

    CenturyLink’s Lisa Bruch and AT&T’s Mike Leff both view the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle as a way to meet changing federal telecommunications requirements, FCW reported Saturday. Bruch, CenturyLink’s vice president of federal sales and marketing, told FCW she thought GSA succeeded in its last effort to manage evolving technological requirements of agencies under […] More

  • CenturyLink Picks Central Washington Site for Hydro-Powered Data Center; David Meredith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Picks Central Washington Site for Hydro-Powered Data Center; David Meredith Comments

    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 Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments

    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

  • Executive Profile: Tim Meehan, CenturyLink SVP and GM Federal BU - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Tim Meehan, CenturyLink SVP and GM Federal BU

    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: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion

    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

  • Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments

    Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

  • IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana

    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

  • Arrow Offers CenturyLink Cloud for Resale; Dee Dee Lear, Blake Wetzel Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arrow Offers CenturyLink Cloud for Resale; Dee Dee Lear, Blake Wetzel Comment

    CenturyLink‘s cloud platform is now available to managed service providers, independent software vendors and other resellers in the U.S. and Canada via Arrow Electronics‘ ArrowSphere cloud services marketplace. “Solution providers, MSPs and ISVs … are now able to utilize CenturyLink Cloud global services for building public, private and hybrid cloud solutions for their business, government and […] More

  • Executive Profile: Greg Taylor, DoD Sales VP at CenturyLink - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Greg Taylor, DoD Sales VP at CenturyLink

    Greg Taylor joined CenturyLink in 2008 and serves as the vice president of Defense Department-area sales. In this role, Taylor and his team sell and provide CenturyLink offerings such as voice, data, video and professional services to DoD agencies worldwide. Before joining CenturyLink, he spent more than 26 years in the telecom industry serving in various sales and management positions. […] More

  • CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies

    CenturyLink will continue to deliver cybersecurity services to U.S. federal civilian agencies under a one-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security‘s office of cybersecurity and communications. The company said Monday the task order is part of a four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cybersecurity services that CenturyLink won in March 2013. DHS awarded the order under its EINSTEIN program, which aims to help agencies […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More