SAVVIS opens new data centre space in Singapore
ConvergenceAsia staff
21/07/2008

In response to growing global customer demand for integrated hosting and network services, SAVVIS, a global IT Infrastructure Services provider, has announced the opening of its expanded Singapore data centre.

Offering more than 18,000 sq ft of raised floor space, the data centre builds on SAVVIS’ long-term presence in Asia Pacific. SAVVIS Singapore provides a broad range of IT infrastructure services including managed hosting, virtualised and utility computing, managed networks, managed security services and consultancy services, to meet the requirements of current customers and other fast-growing enterprises within the Asia Pacific region.

In addition to the full suite of SAVVIS Managed Hosting services, the facility will offer financial customers the ability to host their trading applications in close proximity to major derivatives markets via SAVVIS Proximity Hosting.

Customers can now host at SAVVIS’ Singapore data centre and will be able to connect via low latency network access to the Singapore Exchange. New and emerging alternative trading systems can also take advantage of SAVVIS Proximity Hosting for their infrastructure requirements while accessing the SAVVIS community of financial customers.

Tan Aye See, Managing Director of SAVVIS, Asia Pacific, noted that the Asia Pacific region is experiencing tremendous growth, which creates pressure on companies to manage their IT infrastructure and at the same time manage their costs. “We offer IT infrastructure as a utility, completely changing the way companies can manage capital expenditure.”

With SAVVIS’ infrastructure-as-a-service strategy, businesses now have the option to remove the burden of running their IT operations and increase their focus on business growth. “Our offering in Singapore will give companies access to SAVVIS’ full portfolio of managed hosting, networking, utility computing and security solutions,” Tan said.

The expanded Singapore data centre, and SAVVIS’ recently announced plans for a new UK data centre, increases SAVVIS total data centre footprint to 1.42 million square feet of raised floor encompassing 29 data centres worldwide at year end.

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