{"id":12853,"date":"2015-03-18T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=218891"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:26:39","slug":"centurylink-expands-public-cloud-in-apac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/centurylink-expands-public-cloud-in-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"CenturyLink expands public cloud in APAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_155762\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155762\" alt=\"CenturyLink is expanding its public cloud platform in Singapore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/09\/Cloud-datacentre.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CenturyLink is expanding its public cloud platform in Singapore<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>American telco CenturyLink has expanded the presence of its public cloud platform to Singapore in a bid to cater to growing regional demand for cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>CenturyLink, which recently expanded its managed services presence in China and its private cloud services in Europe and the UK, is adding public cloud nodes to one of its Singapore datacentres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of a CenturyLink Cloud node in Singapore further enhances our position as a leading managed hybrid IT provider for businesses with operations in the Asia-Pacific region,\u201d said Gery Messer, CenturyLink managing director, Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to invest in the high-growth Asia-Pacific region to meet increasing customer demand,\u201d Messer said.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it wants to cater to what it sees as growing demand for cloud services in the region, citing Frost &amp; Sullivan figures that show the Asia-Pacific region spent almost $6.6bn on public cloud services last year. That firm predicts annual cloud services spending in the region will exceed $20bn by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The move also comes at a time when the Singapore Government is looking to invest more in both using cloud services and growing usage of cloud platforms in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said it was working with Amazon Web Services to trial a data as a service project the organisations believe will help increase the visibility of privately-held data sets.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also signed a Memorandum of Intent with AWS that would see the cloud provider offer usage credits $3,000 (US) to the first 25 companies to sign up to the pilot, which will go towards the cost of hosting their dataset registries or datasets.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also announced similar partnerships in the past with Pivotal and Red Hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American telco CenturyLink has expanded the presence of its public cloud platform to Singapore in a bid to cater to growing regional demand for cloud services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,57,2016,1992,2017,1976,2018,578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aws","category-centurylink","category-datacentre","category-infocomm-development-authority-of-singapore","category-news-analysis","category-pivotal","category-red-hat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}