There are a number of data management strategies these days, including private or public cloud, on-premises or off-premises, or a hybrid of these solutions. Of these options, organizations are increasingly looking to multicloud and hybrid cloud computing to enable a more flexible and secure data management and storage approach.

Staying ahead of the tech curve

The speed of technology can cause a company’s IT department, as well as its business managers, to fall behind the curve on implementing the best data solutions for their business. That is where a company like CenturyLink can help companies find the “best execution venue,” according to Brindamour.

“We’re agnostic. We’re obviously a big VMware partner, but we also do resale solutions on Azure and AWS as well. We’re a data center provider, and we can put it in our four walls on old legacy dedicated server environments as well … whatever the right venue for our customer is,” Brindamour said.

The CenturyLink and VMware partnership has proven to be extremely beneficial for both companies, according to Thompson. The expertise each company offers in different areas allows them to combine their knowledge for a better end product. For example, VMware shares with CenturyLink, and other partners, cloud-building tools and automated operations they can share with their users.

“Our partners have choice in flexibility and ease of operations, and then they expose that to their customers as well, so it’s win-win-win,” Thompson concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: CenturyLink Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither CenturyLink nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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