CenturyLink provides a large portfolio of internet, media, voice, and entertainment services, some of which use cloud computing technologies.  In line with their goal of a larger share in the cloud market, they have just announced the use of BOSH for the public cloud.  To-date, CenturyLink has mostly underwhelmed in the cloud computing space, as most enterprises flocked to larger players such as AWS.

This week CenturyLink tried to change its cloud position by introducing BOSH for the CenturyLink Cloud Foundry platform which will offer public cloud solutions to CenturyLink customers.  CenturyLink is purchasing the Tier 3 and AppFog companies to pursue its entry into the cloud computing market.  “The BOSH open source tool chain would be used to deploy the Cloud Foundry on multiple clouds. BOSH has already been used for the deployment of Cloud Foundry on numerous cloud computing platforms such as – VMware’s vCloud Director and vSphere, Amazon web services and OpenStack.”

CenturyLink supports Cloud Provider Interface (CPI).  CPI is able to create a bridge between CenturyLink cloud and BOSH, with the objective of CPI to bring the PaaS services of Cloud Foundry to any other public cloud.

While this announcement seems significant to CenturyLink, there is not much here for them in the quickly emerging cloud market.  CenturyLink will need to continue its acquisitions to shore up and enhance its cloud offerings.