Gartner Study Marks SAVVIS Milestone
By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com
September 7, 2006 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT analyst firm Gartner’s (gartner.com) recently published 2006 North American Web hosting Magic Quadrant – a study that evaluates service providers in the enterprise Web hosting market based on a selection of quantitative and qualitative criteria that measure ability to execute and completeness of vision – positioned Web host and IT infrastructure service provider SAVVIS (savvis.net) at the top of the “Leaders” quadrant.
For SAVVIS, which also placed in the Leaders quadrant in the Pan European Web Hosting Providers Magic Quadrant in May 2006, the acknowledgment solidifies its position as a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, and validates the company’s vision for how those services should be delivered.
“It represents a huge recognition, not just of our recent performance, but really of a vision we’ve had for how managed services ought to be provided,” says Bryan Doerr, CTO of SAVVIS. “At the core of that vision is the idea that while the function of a managed service, whether it be a firewall, load balancer, server or a storage, needs to be preserved to run current applications, the physical environment needs to change to really create good cost performance and good overall availability.”
According to Gartner, vendors listed in the “Leaders” quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership positions in the market. This is the first time SAVVIS has placed ahead of IBM on this particular scale, and the company feels Gartner has put it ahead of the IT giant based on factors like SAVVIS’ approach to delivering utility services.
“One of the most significant areas of cost in infrastructure is in underutilization, trapped resources,” says Doerr. “And with SAVVIS’ focus on adapting units of consumption and being more flexible about the way in which you can buy, or the time that it takes to add your service, Gartner is recognizing that we are trying to address that problem. True, we surpassed IBM and it makes us feel great, but we’ve always known we’re thought leaders in the industry. We aren’t producing hardware or software that clients are buying, but we are thought leaders in the way in which infrastructure can be provided as a service, as opposed to capital with on-going operational expense.”
Doerr says SAVVIS’ journey over the years has been one of recognition for the significance of IT and the strategy of virtualization as the key to changing the economics around service provided over IT. The company has gathered additional resources through selected acquisitions. And it has added new technologies, like the components used in the company’s utility platform, to further virtualize its underlying IT infrastructure.
Considering the company’s growth and the point it has reached today, says Doerr, SAVVIS is excited about the future.
“Based on where we’re at, we’re setting the trend,” he says. “It’s our thought leadership that analysts like Gartner think the industry needs more of and we’ve got a lot of thoughts around where we’ve got to take the industry next. We will continue to focus on deploying applications of all types, we will continue to focus on the nature of those applications and we will look for underlying virtualization technologies that will allow us to deliver a more reliable, more affordable, more secure and a more agile infrastructure. So, the future for us is more of the same strategy and we see many market forces that are simply encouraging and nurturing our success.”
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