(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider and data center operator Savvis (www.savvis.net) announced on Tuesday it is seeking to expand its data center network by adding global financial data centers in Brazil, Mumbai and Sydney, according to a report by Data center Knowledge.
The expansion is largely being driven by the company’s growing financial customer base.
Its largest financial services client, Thomson Reuters, hosts a global low-latency trading network with Savvis.
Savvis expanded Thomson Reuters’ hosting platform on a global scale in October by adding a series of data centers, including New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Singapore.
The company gives customers access to low latency market data, analytics and data management platform out of these global financial hubs.
“Globally, we continue to explore expansions with Thomson Reuters,” says Savvis CEO Jim Ousley. “Today, we’re looking at Brazil, Sydney, and Mumbai. In these instances, Thomson Reuters serves as an anchor tenant and helps fund the initial capital requirements. We lease the data center space from a local provider and handle all of the infrastructure services. From there, we have the potential to expand our use beyond our relationship with Thomson Reuters as we see new business opportunities develop.”
Savvis senior VP and MD of the US Bill Fathers says the global expansion is “very much cloud driven.”
Meanwhile, interest continues to rise among Savvis’ large financial services customers “in going into these markets to get access to these new trading environments.
