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Singtel Business Product Factsheet Brochure Managed Defense Public Cloud Services Conquer New Digital Frontiers with leading Public Cloud Platforms.

1 Singtel Business Product Factsheet Brochure Managed Defense Public Cloud Services Conquer New Digital Frontiers with leading Public Cloud Platforms. Singtel Managed Public Cloud supports enterprises in their business transformation by offering the most advanced and widely-used public cloud technology in the industry. This is backed by our strong cloud expertise and in-depth understanding of IT needs in the Asian market. With this, enterprises today can just look to a single cloud service provider and choose the managed public cloud infrastructure services that best fit their IT needs.

2 Managed Public Cloud Leapfrog the Competition with Cloud-led Digital Transformation In today s ideas economy, enterprises have to find ways to successfully incorporate digital technologies such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud in order to transform their business models and operations. Failure to do so could threaten their ability to deliver relevant and timely products and services, undermine customers perception of their value-add, and hinder their efforts to attract and retain talent. Whether you are a start-up seizing new digital opportunities or an established company embarking on a digital transformation, what you will need is an IT infrastructure that is elastic enough to support business workloads, stable enough to address service availability, and secure enough to withstand cyber threats. Singtel Managed Public Cloud helps you meet these requirements and takes the guesswork out of public cloud implementations. We do this by leveraging our partnerships with leading public cloud infrastructure providers and overlaying these offerings with Singtel Cloud Lifecycle Services. Partnerships: Singtel Cloud Lifecycle Services for Managed Public Cloud To reap optimal benefits from the public cloud, it is likely that you will have to make use of multiple public cloud platforms, select the offerings that are most suited to your different workloads and integrate them to deliver the reliability, performance and capabilities that are needed for your business. Even managing a single cloud platform can be a difficult task. It involves dealing with different vendors, handling integration issues across the cloud, networking and data centre stack, and meeting the compliance requirements of various industry sectors. Singtel Cloud Lifecycle Services is a comprehensive suite of managed services that will address these challenges and support you in every stage of your cloud adoption journey. These services are delivered by our certified professionals with in-depth experience in carrying out large cloud deployments both for the commercial and government sectors. Singtel Cloud Lifecycle Services Advise (Day 0) Assist customers to understand cloud benefits and assess their existing IT environment Develop, adopt and deliver strategy to achieve Cloud best practices Assess cloud adoption readiness and conduct TCO Analysis Advise Transform Transform (Day 1) Set up, integrate and implement infrastructure moving to the cloud Conduct application and data migration services Assess post-migration operations Operate Operate (Day 2) Deliver, manage and support infrastructure, data, applications and databases Provide operations helpdesk and monitoring services to support and resolve technical faults Monitor cloud spend and optimise resources through Singtel Liquid Sky TM

3 Components and Features of Managed Public Cloud Singtel Managed Public Cloud comprises a comprehensive suite of Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings which include compute, storage, database, content distribution network and big data solutions. The four common product offerings are: Compute Services Elastic computing capacity that can be scaled up or down to match dynamic business requirements. This paves the way for easier management of compute resources and delivers greater efficiency, stability and security compared with the deployment of physical servers. Networking Services The Networking services allows Enterprises to achieve a logically isolated network in the cloud, establish a private network connection with the cloud with a highly available DNS service, allocate traffic across multiple cloud servers and deliver content to end customers at low latencies. Storage The public cloud storage allows for infinite expansion of storage capacity without compromising performance and provides extremely high data reliability with triple backups. It is also highly secure with multi-layered protection and logs to track unauthorised access. Database Singtel Managed Public Cloud includes a stable, reliable and elastic online database service which can be spun up instantly. It incorporates multiple security features, a performance-monitoring system, automatic failover, and professional database backup, recovery and optimisation capabilities.

4 Business Applications Singtel Managed Public Cloud is suitable for enterprises looking for: Application/website hosting Productivity apps and websites require high bandwidth pipes, high availability and auto-scaling capabilities in order to serve end users at scale. Storage/backup purposes High-speed, high-throughput access facilitates periodic data migration and replication for back-up and retention strategies. Disaster recovery solutions Cloud-based disaster recovery ensures business continuity and short Recovery Time Objective (time to restore) in case of outage. Hybrid cloud deployment High-bandwidth connectivity combined with high-performance computing services allows customers to use the public cloud as an extension of their data centres. Big data solutions Handy access to sophisticated and massive scale data processing technology, without worries about configuration or operation of clusters. Bene ts Quick deployment and highly elastic Businesses can provision IT resources within minutes, compared to the few months that it could take if they were to set up their own infrastructure. Servers and other IT resources can be scaled up or down anytime easily depending on the business s workload and performance requirements. Data redundancy and sovereignty Prevents data loss by saving three copies of all data within the data centre. Data sovereignty is enforced with the guarantee that data will not be synced between data centres or sent to other countries outside our data centres in Singapore. High availability and robust security Delivers high service availability and automatically captures snapshots of the servers for instant recovery. Businesses are protected with multi-layered security and DDoS defences. Cost effective No upfront capital expenditure. Businesses only pay for what they use, on a monthly or hourly basis.

5 Singtel Cloud Operating Model and Singtel Managed Cloud Portfolio Singtel Managed Cloud Cloud Security mybusiness Software-as-a-Service Hybrid Cloud Liquid Sky TM Orchestration and automation Cloud Lifecycle Services Managed Private Cloud Managed Virtual Private Cloud Managed Public Cloud Advise Transform Managed Connectivity Operate Cloud-enabled Data Centres According to research firm IDC, there are five stages to cloud maturity - ad hoc, opportunistic, repeatable, managed and optimised. The Singtel Hybrid Cloud Operating Model (COM) helps enterprises to determine their current level of maturity and what their end stage should look like. It also identifies current gaps and opportunities for capability development, and provides a checklist of activities that enterprises need to accomplish in order to build those capabilities and achieve their target stage. These activities are focused around Governance, Information Assurance, Service Integration, Service Operations, Service Management and People Development. Underpinning the COM is the Singtel Managed Cloud Portfolio which provides businesses with the tools, infrastructure platforms and expertise they need to succeed at each stage of cloud maturity. The portfolio comprises Managed Public Cloud, Managed Private Cloud, Managed Virtual Private Cloud as well as a suite of Cloud Lifecycle Services and an innovative hybrid cloud management tool (Liquid Sky ) for service automation and orchestration. We also have a full range of services encompassing security, data centres, network connectivity and managed services to help businesses in their cloud journey. Why Singtel The only cloud service provider to offer a COM designed to drive enterprises towards cloud maturity. COM provides a framework to help enterprises build capabilities and achieve successful outcomes required for each stage of cloud maturity. The most complete selection of cloud platforms from public clouds to virtual private cloud and private cloud platforms, allowing you to choose the best fit for the different workloads that you have. Extensive experience in delivering secure managed services and deploying large-scale cloud projects including the Singapore government cloud. Highly skilled, certi ed cloud experts with multi-disciplinary experience in cloud solution architecture, consultation, project management and SysOps administration to support businesses in their cloud strategy planning, migration, operations and management. Backed by a full suite of market leading network connectivity, security and data centre offerings and managed services from Singtel. Highly-resilient world-class data centres built to TIA # Tier 4 specifications, providing secure and trusted hosting to meet businesses data sovereignty requirements. A single point of contact for customers looking to grow their presence in Singapore and the region. # Telecommunication Industry Association, which publishes the Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centres.

6 About Singtel Singtel is Asia's leading communications group providing a portfolio of services including voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. The Group has presence in Asia, Australia and Africa with over 610 million mobile customers in 24 countries, including India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. It also has a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States. Singtel Cloud Awards Asia Communication Awards Best Enterprise Service - Connectivity as a Service (2013) Best Cloud Service (2011 & 2012) Project of the Year - G-Cloud (2014) Cloud & DevOps Awards 2016 Best Cloud Computing Adoption Project (G-Cloud) Computerworld SG Readers Choice Awards Best Data Centre and Hosting Services Provider (2007 & ) Best Managed Connectivity Services Provider ( ) Computerworld Singapore Customer Care Award Cloud Services ( ) Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards Telecom Cloud Service Provider of the Year (2012, 2016) IDC MarketScape in Asia Pacific 2013 A Leader for Datacenter and Hosted Cloud Services* NetworkWorld Asia Readers Choice Product Excellence Awards (2013) Managed Infrastructure Services Cloud Infrastructure Provider Telco Cloud Forum Awards 2016 Telco Cloud of the Year November 2016 For more information cloud@singtel.com Copyright 2016 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (CRN: D). All rights reserved. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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