SAVVIS Offers Virtual Hosting

October 9, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT infrastructure services provider SAVVIS (savvis.net) announced on Tuesday it is now offering virtual intelligent hosting, a highly flexible and scalable managed IT service based on SAVVIS' hosting and network infrastructure with VMware's third-generation virtualization software suite.

VIH offers business and government enterprises an easy, flexible, and scalable approach to virtualized computing. SAVVIS integrates VMware Infrastructure 3 software with SAVVIS' hosting, storage and network services to deliver a seamless virtualized computing solution that tackles IT infrastructure optimization challenges, says the company.

Users of SAVVIS VIH will be provided with optimum application availability and capacity management, automatic data and systems protection and rapid recovery from failures while avoiding up-front capital expense for server, storage, network and security devices. SAVVIS' VIH solution is available on Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux operating systems.

"Combining VMware's leading infrastructure virtualization software with SAVVIS' managed hosting gives our customers a powerful new option for server consolidation and infrastructure management," says James Whitemore, SAVVIS chief marketing officer. "The market response to our new virtual intelligent hosting service has been very positive. Since its phased release began in July we have bought hundreds of virtual machines into production, helping our customers like ROCKETinfo quickly gain the benefits of virtualized IT environments."