Avnet Adds CenturyLink Cloud to Partner Portfolios

 Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that CenturyLink Cloud, CenturyLink’s public cloud platform, is available through its U.S. and Canada value-added reseller (VAR) partners, through Avnet Cloud Solutions.

“The addition of CenturyLink Cloud to Avnet Cloud Solutions’ portfolio further strengthens the ability of Avnet partners to deliver essential cloud IT services that help customers enhance business agility and improve time to market,” said Tim FitzGerald, vice president of cloud solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “CenturyLink Cloud is an all-in-one cloud platform that delivers high-performance, secure, reliable and scalable cloud solutions for all workloads. It complements Avnet’s approach to solving today’s business-to-business cloud computing challenges.”

Partners will receive access to the Avnet Cloud Toolset (ACT) to manage, govern, consolidate and track their customers’ cloud accounts across multiple cloud providers. ACT features cloud usage tracking and consumption-based invoicing for workloads running on CenturyLink Cloud, coupled with subscription-based workloads.

Partners can also become members of the CenturyLink Cloud Reseller Program, which offers technical resources, account provisioning support and high-visibility monthly reports. In addition, Avnet’s partners will own customer billing and relationships and have the option to do so under their respective brands with the CenturyLink Cloud Reseller Program.

“We’re excited about the opportunity for CenturyLink Cloud together with Avnet’s value-added reseller partner community to serve a wider range of customers,” said Blake Wetzel, vice president at the CenturyLink Channel Alliance. “We look forward to helping Avnet’s partners use CenturyLink Cloud to support their customers in reducing their total cost of ownership for cloud solutions while enjoying enterprise-class cloud security, performance, automation and orchestration features.”