When a company has a love/hate relationship with public cloud computing, things can get quite complicated. Having applications on-premises and in the cloud gives them a wide spread of information technology to reign in and manage. And having personnel purchase cloud products on their own can lead to runaway spending. Is there anywhere they can turn for easy, one-stop management of hybrid infrastructure?

Plenty of companies have been hung over the fence about cloud, according to Dominic Deacon (pictured), sales director of cloud services and alliances, EMEA, at CenturyLink Inc. They may have balked at having to wait several months to fully migrate workloads to cloud. However, they wanted the advantages of cloud scale and elasticity.

“That became a bit of a challenge to enterprises, because now they’ve got unregulated IT spend; they’ve got lots of different silos of applications,” Deacon said. “That starts to become a challenge to manage at scale.”

Deacon spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the AWS Summit in London. They discussed the challenges of managing disparate applications and infrastructure (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

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These days, we are seeing a lot more companies get comfortable with putting traditional apps — like SAP and ERP — in the cloud, according to Deacon. Many want to get away from physical data centers and move away from CapEx to an service-level agreement that is outcome driven, for instance.

Still, most opt to keep certain types of apps on-prem. In this hybrid limbo, many find themselves saying: “What I need is a service provider to be a consistent provider across all of these different infrastructure types now as we transition,” Deacon said.

CenturyLink’s portfolio of global network services, hosting, cloud and managed services and a cover-all managed security service make it the comprehensive management partner hybrid customers long for, according to Deacon. It doesn’t just help companies lift and shift apps to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. — a CenturyLink partner.

“Once workloads have been transitioned to AWS, we’re able to manage those as a managed service provider for the organizations,” Deacon concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Summit London event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Summit London 2019 event. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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