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Cloud Adoption: User Perceptions and Strategies

Performance Analysis of Savvis Symphony VPDC and Other Cloud Services

This report summarizes the results of performance analysis conducted by CloudHarmony of Savvis Symphony VPDC and other cloud services.

Going public? The case for private or public clouds to support enterprise IT strategy

The rapid growth of public cloud providers offering services such as low-cost access to storage and processor power present an obvious opportunity for IT managers looking for flexibility without excess spending.

Is the cloud safe? Breaking down the barriers to cloud computing

Research by cloud provider Savvis has identified the five biggest concerns preventing IT managers from opting for cloud-based services.

Winning trust in cloud computing security

IT professionals highlight what cloud computing providers must do to persuade them that their data is safe.

Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting

Cloud infrastructure as a service has evolved primarily from the Web hosting market, but the cloud has created new opportunities for cost savings and business agility. The market is immature, the services are all unique and evolving rapidly, and vendors must be chosen with care.

CIO LinkedIn Market Pulse Survey

Enterprise-Grade Cloud Computing Adoption: Trends and Purchase Requirements

PCI-Compliant Cloud Reference Architecture White Paper

Cisco, HyTrust, VMware, Savvis and Coalfire have collaborated to construct a cloud reference architecture that addresses some of the unique challenges of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Innovative technologies from Cisco, VMware, and HyTrust are used to implement the cloud architecture with a number of additional security controls to meet the intent of PCI DSS. The reference architecture was implemented in the Savvis lab and the team collaborated with Coalfire, which provided guidance as a PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).

Cloud Solutions for the Financial Services Industry

CIOs and IT management in the financial services industry realize that cloud-based computing infrastructure enhances the value of their business offerings, by divesting themselves of the problems of managing what has become commoditized infrastructure and ensuring ever-stretched resources can be deployed onto strategic and value-adding initiatives. These organizations want to run mission-critical applications in the cloud at enterprise-class levels of availability, security and connectivity while retaining a flexible architecture with capacity for expansion.

Accelerating Time to Market: Application Development and Test in the Cloud

Software Development and Time to Market Software development has become a business critical, yet highly resource and budget intensive endeavor for corporations in a wide range of industries. For many corporations, software is a key enabler of their business processes, and the availability and stability of that software has direct impact on corporate revenues and client satisfaction.

Strategies for Success

Last year was a challenging year as the economic recession took hold and IT leaders were forced to tighten their belts and rise to the challenge of delivering more for less.

The Relevance of Cloud Infrastructure to Enterprise Challenges

Even stripped of all the marketplace buildup and buzz, cloud computing services are undeniably changing IT options in meaningful ways. Still, cloud computing is neither a fundamentally new concept nor an IT outsourcing panacea, but is instead the result of the continuous evolution of hosting services to increase client appeal and adoption of outsourced infrastructure.

Introducing the Dynamic and Scalable Data Center

The cloud is suddenly everywhere. The five-year annual growth rate for IT cloud services is projected to be 26.5 percent — that's six times the growth rate of traditional IT service offerings. Virtualization and cloud computing are the #1 and #2 technology priorities for CIOs in 2010. And the top three factors causing enterprises to move to cloud are, in order, access to expertise; lower overall cost; and need for 24/7 coverage.

Savvis Symphony Dedicated and Open

Savvis Symphony Dedicated and Open expand on Savvis' rich heritage of delivering global IT infrastructure services to thousands of businesses throughout the world. Savvis Symphony Dedicated and Open services extend the utility concept by combining virtualization technology from VMware®, an industry leader, with our dedicated and multi-tenant hosting platforms. Clients are empowered with easy-to-use tools to provision new instances online as they need them based on short, flexible term commitments. This powerful combination equips your business with the tools to rapidly build, control and customize your hosting environment to support the demands placed on your infrastructure without the burden of long-term contracts or the lead time of traditional deployments.

Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC)

As a leader in IT infrastructure outsourcing, Savvis provides a broad range of service offerings for clients. From networking and colocation, to managed hosting and cloud computing, Savvis provides a spectrum of solutions to address a varying set of client IT requirements at dramatically reduced cost. With Savvis Symphony VPDC, Savvis introduces a new era of its leading cloud services. Complementing the existing Savvis Symphony Open and Savvis Symphony Dedicated cloud compute services, Savvis Symphony VPDC introduces one of the industry's first enterprise-class Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) solutions with multi-tiered security and service profiles.

Savvis Video Tutorial #1

Learn how to get your VMs to communicate over the same network tier.

Savvis Video Tutorial #2

Learn how to configure a load balancer and firewall for a web application tier.

Savvis Video Tutorial #3

Learn how to configure your VMs to go across multiple network tiers.