Savvis Expands IT Infrastructure Capabilities With Symphony Cloud Storage

Savvis,
a CenturyLink, Inc. company (CTL) and a
specialist in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises,
announced the limited release of Savvis Symphony Cloud Storage, which combines
accessibility and unlimited capacity with the reliability and protection
businesses demand.

While any business can access Symphony
Cloud Storage over the public Internet, existing clients who use the
CenturyLink private network will not pay data transfer fees when downloading
data. In addition, Savvis clients that host or colocate in a cloud
storage-enabled data center do not pay transfer fees to move data between their
cloud storage and infrastructure.

Additional key features of the pay-per-use
Symphony Cloud Storage offering include:

• Simple replication choices, providing
  businesses with the flexibility to choose where their data is stored, while a
  global namespace model allows end users to analyze the data collectively
  without needing to know the storage location for each piece of data;
• Access from anywhere, leveraging Savvis’ global scale, stretching across
  multiple data centers around the world and accessible on any device – including
  mobile devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones;
• 
  Unlimited and affordable storage with no term or capacity commitment required,
  paying only for what is used;
• Massive scale, allowing users to scale up or down without the constraints of
  traditional storage infrastructure;
• Security of penalty-backed SLAs and 24/7 support.

"Enterprises
need flexible cloud services – like Savvis Symphony Cloud Storage – that they
can easily integrate into their applications," said Daniel Patton, VP
and GM of cloud services at Savvis. "Symphony
Cloud Storage draws on our infrastructure expertise, global IT portfolio and
robust network to provide developers with a secure and unlimited storage
solution."

Built on the EMC Atmos platform
and compatible with the EMC Atmos API framework, Symphony Cloud Storage allows
users to integrate solutions from vendors already utilizing EMC technologies.

"EMC
is excited to be collaborating with a leading service provider like Savvis, and
to be providing a key infrastructure element of its new Symphony Cloud Storage
solution," said Ken MacDonald, senior director of marketing, Advanced
Storage Division, at EMC. "A robust,
scalable storage platform that’s accessible by any device type is essential to
building a true enterprise-class cloud storage offering. The Symphony Cloud Storage
solution takes advantage of the EMC Atmos cloud platform, together with other
best-of-breed technologies, to deliver exceptional private, public and hybrid
cloud infrastructure environments to customers."

Coinciding with the limited commercial
release of Symphony Cloud Storage, Savvis has launched a Symphony Cloud Storage
Partner Ecosystem featuring solutions from vendors such as Riverbed, which modernizes data
protection and archiving; Oxygen Cloud,
which enables smart file access on mobile devices for enterprises; and Panzura,
which enables storage consolidation for global NAS, archive and backup use
cases.

Accessible from anywhere in the world,
Savvis’ cloud storage is hosted in data centers in London, Singapore, Toronto,
Washington, DC, and Santa Clara, CA Symphony Cloud Storage complements the VMware-based
Savvis Symphony suite of enterprise cloud solutions

Symphony Cloud Storage currently is open to
a limited number of Savvis clients, with commercial availability in early
2013.