SAVVIS Provides Details to IDC on Its Virtualized Services

SAVVIS Communications (www.savvis.net) today provided leading industry research firm IDC with details about the advancement of its virtualized utility services delivery platform that was launched earlier this year.

"GLOBALconect provides a secure web-based data base management system for its law firm, corporate and government clients that enables them to easily manage massive amounts of highly sensitive data," said Ian Campbell, Principal and Director of Business Development, GLOBALconect.

These virtualized, on-demand services require no up-front capital expense for the customer and can provide tailored service levels to match the unique needs of each application. This enables businesses to become more agile by easily and cost-effectively scaling their IT infrastructure as business needs change.

SAVVIS' virtualized approach and utility services introduces a new purchasing model for information technology that allows customers to shift from capital expense spikes for hardware that might get used, to a smoother payment stream for IT functions as they are used.

Since the formal introduction of its virtualized services delivery platform in April, SAVVIS has deployed 308 virtual servers and 61.5 terabytes of virtualized storage as part of existing and new customer installations.
SAVVIS also delivers private network services, which extend to 47 countries. These services are built on advanced proprietary systems that essentially virtualize all network routing and security and deliver fully-meshed, any-to-any connectivity. As part of these private network solutions SAVVIS has deployed more than 25,000 virtual network-based firewalls globally.

With the virtualized utility services platform, SAVVIS can roll out a fully-configured IT environment for a variety of applications that includes server, storage, network, firewall, intrusion detection, load balancing, and web acceleration in approximately 30 minutes and has demonstrated this to leading industry analyst firms such as Gartner, Inc., Tier1 Research and IDC.

"The emergence of service delivery platforms that use virtualization technologies is a game-changing development for the IT industry," said Melanie Posey, Research Director at IDC.

"We were looking for an affordable managed hosting solution that provided the uptime and reliability that would enable us to deliver a superior web presence for our business," said Mark Medley, Director of Information Systems, Sonitrol Corporation. "SAVVIS' virtualized utility services provided a rapid and seamless deployment and enabled us to lower our costs while improving performance, a combination not normally found in a fully-managed hosting solution."

SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global IT utility services provider that leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services.