Savvis Expands Range of Cloud Infrastructure Solutions in the UK
By Savvis Inc., PRNEMonday, March 29, 2010
Savvis Symphony Open public cloud now available from Slough data centre
LONDON, March 30, 2010 - Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and
hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced that its Savvis Symphony
Open public cloud infrastructure service is now available to European clients
through its UK data centre in Slough.
The expansion follows growing demand for Savvis' cloud infrastructure and
managed hosting offerings in Europe. Savvis Symphony Open is the second cloud
solution available from Savvis' 37,500 square foot data centre in Slough,
which complements the broad portfolio of managed and virtualised hosting,
private cloud and network services that Savvis currently offers to
enterprises and the public sector.
This addition to Savvis' cloud computing portfolio will assist
organisations with driving cost efficiencies, data centre consolidation,
scalability and flexibility through its multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
platform, which has built-in availability and automated resource balancing.
Clients can also benefit from enterprise-class security, Quality of Service
(QoS) and service level agreements (SLAs).
Savvis Symphony Open provides organisations with additional control
through self-service management and on-demand provisioning via Savvis' client
portal, which is the main customer interface for all of Savvis' hosting and
network services.
"While Savvis has seen growth in managed hosting services in Europe for
many years, as enterprises have sought the benefits of managed services, we
are now experiencing increasing demand for both private and public cloud
infrastructure services," said Brian Klingbeil, managing director EMEA for
Savvis. "Through the Slough data centre, we can now offer customers the
benefit of Savvis Symphony Open's on-demand, dynamically scalable resources
to control their IT costs and tailor their usage."
Savvis UK already offers Savvis Symphony Dedicated, which allows
enterprise customers to establish a dedicated cloud environment to provide
baseline compute and storage resources for web applications, such as
ecommerce. Later this spring, Savvis will launch the next generation of
Savvis Symphony, which will be available from its Slough facility. Savvis
Symphony VPDC will feature one of the industry's first enterprise-class
Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC) with multi-tiered QoS capabilities.
Out of its IS0 27001 accredited UK data centres, Savvis serves many
global enterprises and government departments, including Thomson Reuters,
Discovery Communications and easyJet.
easyJet has been a long standing European client and has taken advantage
of Savvis' managed hosting, managed network, managed security and
professional IT services. Andy Caddy, head of enterprise architecture at
easyJet comments, "easyJet's business is built around ensuring our cost base
is well matched to demand. Savvis' cloud computing services have allowed IT
to become even more tightly aligned with the business and its natural
fluctuations in a way that was not previously possible. We expect this
flexibility will allow us to take advantage of a growing market over the
coming year."
Globally, Savvis operates a Tier 1 application transport network and 28
data centres with more than 1.4 million square feet of raised floor space
designed to support enterprise IT operations. In addition, Savvis was
positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and
Cloud Infrastructure (on Demand), 2009, which can be accessed at
www.savvis.net/magicquadrantleader.
Notes to Editor:
Savvis Symphony Open offers customer organisations the freedom to choose
a "right-sized" compute environment via a purchase-by-the-instance cost model
and flexible month-to-month terms for each instance. This is a true utility
computing environment, where customer teams can control an agile
infrastructure themselves through the SavvisStation Portal, deploying
resources as required in a matter of minutes, scaling resource up and down as
required to match business demand.
About Savvis
Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS) is a global leader in cloud infrastructure
and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. More than 2,500 unique clients,
including 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to
reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest
advances in cloud computing. For more information, please visit savvis.co.uk.
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of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may
differ materially from Savvis' expectations. Certain factors that could
affect actual results are set forth as risk factors in Savvis' SEC reports
and filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K and all subsequent
filings as well as the risk that potential product cost and performance
benefits may not be realised for any particular customer. Savvis assumes no
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