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With a 10-year history of delivering highly available IT systems to businesses, SAVVIS has staked a leadership position in the utility computing market with its end-to-end global IT utility platform. This platform, based on advanced automated software management systems, allows SAVVIS to dynamically provision the server, storage and network resources needed to run client applications.
Highlights
Employing a utility model, SAVVIS’s IT service delivery platform provides a secure, private and completely “virtual” network and hosting infrastructure that can significantly reduce the costs and improve the performance of IT systems. Unlike the traditional IT services model, in which companies must pay up-front for server and storage capacity that may not ever be used, SAVVIS’ virtualized delivery platform routinely and automatically optimizes resource allocation for each client, enabling enterprises to scale IT systems up or down and pay only for what they use.
With SAVVIS’ automated IT utility it is easier for businesses to roll out new applications, support acquired companies or new lines of business and deliver 24 hour IT to their offices around the world.
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“Our experience is that companies in every industry struggle with common IT challenges: scalability, cost, and uptime,” says Greg Furst, vice president of hosting at SAVVIS. “We have leveraged our 10 years of experience and $200 million infrastructure investment to build out a state-of-the-art platform that makes the corporate IT operations and spending more efficient.” Furst says the vast server and storage farms that deliver IT services to businesses are severely underused. “The business challenge today is not that hardware costs too much, it’s that too much goes unused,” he says. “As a consequence, businesses of all sizes do not get the best bang for their buck.”
SAVVIS’s virtualized utility services are designed to solve underutilization by delivering the unique configuration of servers, storage and network each application requires. The firm’s utility services not only allocate dedicated server, storage and firewall capacity, but through SAVVIS’s wide area network can deploy fully meshed private networks, in-network firewalls, load-balancing and intrusion-detection systems, all via automated systems that require no physical hardware within an enterprise. As a result, SAVVIS’ utility services can be characterized as a full corporate IT infrastructure that can deploy mission-critical applications, storage, and CPU cycles to corporate clients in minutes. “This changes the whole IT paradigm,” says Furst.
Studies conducted by industry analyst Excipio Consulting found that by using SAVVIS’ virtualized utility services rather than traditional services, clients could experience a 30 to 65 percent decrease in operating costs, a 10 month payback and a projected return-on-investment of 112 percent.
“The emergence of service delivery platforms that use virtualization technologies is a game-changing development for the IT industry,” says Melanie Posey, research director at IDC. “The new delivery model enables service providers like SAVVIS to significantly reduce the costs of service provision and scale customers’ IT infrastructures with greater agility. But more importantly, virtualization platforms allow enterprises of all sizes to switch from a capital-expenditure model to a more cost-effective operating-expenditure model.”
Since the formal introduction of its virtualized services delivery platform in 2004, SAVVIS has deployed more than 300 virtual servers and 60 terabytes of virtualized storage as part of existing and new customer installations. SAVVIS has also been deploying virtual network and security services, including firewalls, load balancing and SSL accelerators and has successfully implemented more than 650 virtual firewalls to date.
