Savvis to Meet Asia Pacific Demand for Enterprise-Class Cloud
By Savvis Inc., PRNEMonday, February 14, 2011
Savvis Symphony VPDC to be Deployed in Singapore Data Centre
SINGAPORE, February 15, 2011 - To meet increasing demand in the Asia Pacific region for enterprise-class
cloud computing solutions, Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS) today announced its
signature cloud service, Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC),
will be available in the second quarter of 2011 from its Singapore data
centre.
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Symphony VPDC, currently available to clients from data centres the U.S.
and U.K., allows clients to quickly and securely design and deploy a complete
set of enterprise-class data centre services for a variety of applications,
including ones considered mission-critical. There is no need to physically
procure, install, configure or manage any hardware - helping to reduce costs
and complexity as well as increase speed to market.
"We are experiencing huge demand from our global clients to support their
expansion plans across the Asia region, which is an important growth market
for Savvis," said Mark Smith, managing director, Asia, for Savvis. "The
launch of Savvis Symphony VPDC in Singapore will enable local organisations
and Savvis' global clients to harness even greater efficiencies from their IT
infrastructure."
With two service profiles, Essential and Balanced, and a third, Premier,
planned for a follow-up release, Symphony VPDC's multilevel service profile
capability provides a range of features, support levels and performance. With
enterprise-class security, quality of service and service-level agreements,
Symphony VPDC meets the needs of website hosting, mission-critical, test and
development and other applications.
The announcement of the planned Singapore launch of Symphony VPDC follows
the recent announcement by Savvis that industry analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.,
positioned Savvis in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The report was published on Dec.
23, 2010 and authored by Gartner analysts Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong.
Savvis believes its position in the Magic Quadrant is testament to its
commitment to deliver visionary enterprise-class solutions to its global
clients. The report can be accessed at
www.savvis.sg/magic-quadrant-leader, compliments of Savvis.
"Our Savvis Symphony VPDC offering has already generated wide-scale
interest in North America and Europe due to its compelling value proposition
combining enterprise-grade data centre services in the cloud," Smith said.
"The demand for this solution is now also being driven out of Singapore. We
look forward to assisting organisations across the region in leveraging the
many benefits of Savvis Symphony VPDC."
For more information about Savvis Symphony VPDC and Savvis' other cloud
solutions, visit www.savvisknowscloud.com.
About Savvis
Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS) is a global leader in cloud infrastructure
and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2,500 unique clients,
including 32 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
www.savvis.net.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused
with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis
of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as
defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to
select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic
Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a
specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or
implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
Forward-Looking Statements
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within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including with respect to the timing and magnitude of future expansion.
Actual results may differ materially from expectations. The forward-looking
statements contained in this document speak only as of the date of
publication, Feb. 15, 2011. Subsequent events and developments may cause the
company's forward-looking statements to change, and the company will not
undertake efforts to revise those forward-looking statements to reflect
events after this date.
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