Cloud Computing: CenturyLink’s Chief Techie Joins Automic

December 10, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

John Purrier, chief technology officer for CenturyLink’s cloud effort, is now CTO at Automic, a business automation company. The news comes two weeks after two other high-profile CenturyLink CTL -0.83% cloud executives, Jonathan King and Jared Wray, left the company, as well as the departure of Lucas Carlson, chief innovation officer in July.

This indicates a broad changing of the guard for the telephone company, which launched an ambitious cloud computing effort four years ago with its $3.2 billion buyout of Savvis. CenturyLink subsequently bought AppFog, with its cloud development services, and Tier 3, a well-regarded cloud infrastructure provider founded by Wray. King landed at Ericsson; Wray appears to be taking time off…

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