November 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- SAVVIS Communications (savvis.com), a
provider of managed IP and Web hosting services, said today that ValuBond,
a fixed-income trading platform, will deploy SAVVIS' Financial Transaction
Service (FTS) to its brokerages and investment firms.
According to SAVVIS, 56 of the top liquidity pools, buy-side and sell-side
firms, and financial application providers currently use its FTS solution.
FTS is designed to meet the unique requirements of trading applications
while providing high availability, performance and security.
"The financial services industry has very unique needs that an IT
infrastructure must carefully evaluate and meet - guaranteed uptime,
reliability, security and authenticity," said Jack Finlayson, president and
chief operating officer of SAVVIS. "We are pleased to assist ValuBond in
delivering a FIX transaction option."
