CenturyLink has changed the name of its data hosting business Savvis with the goal of reflecting a collective offering of enterprise information technology services. Savvis has been renamed CenturyLink Technology Solutions and will led by President Jeff Von Deylen, CenturyLink announced Tuesday. “Though our name is changing, our customers will continue to …

Synergy Research Group has released a new report on market performance of colocation providers in the U.S., Fierce Telecom reported Friday. Sean Buckley writes Equinix and CenturyLink‘s Savvis subsidiary are among the dominant players U.S. colocation market through continued surges in colocation and managed service earnings. Equinix generated $517 million …

The IEX Group has selected a Savvis data center in Weehawken, N.J. to host a new alternative trading system. The CenturyLink subsidiary was also chosen to provide a secondary data center in Chicago for the IEX system, Savvis announced Thursday. Ronan Ryan, IEX chief strategy officer, said his company looked …

Fiona Cullen has joined CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis to serve as managing director of operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Cullen most recently led the European cloud computing business at IBM, Savvis announced Tuesday. She said the market for information technology infrastructure has become increasingly diverse as Savvis aims to help businesses acquire …

CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis has released a new suite of hosted information technology services aimed at helping government and other enterprise customers process large volumes of data. Big Data Solutions is intended to offer software and hardware service toosl that store, integrate, retrieve, analyze and secure information via a high-bandwidth network connection, …

All five data centers Savvis operates in the U.K. have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard, which is given to companies that have reduced their carbon footprints in the country. Savvis’ data centers in Slough, London and Reading have reduced information technology-related carbon footprints in the U.K. by 10 percent since 2010, …

Ash Mathur was named the new regional vice president and country manager of the Canadian operations of Savvis, a CenturyLink company. In his new role, Mathur will be responsible for driving growth in the company’s colocation, managed hosting and cloud services in the country, Savvis announced Wednesday. Based in Toronto, …

CenturyLink Inc. has selected Bloom Energy fuel-cell servers to power an Irvine, Calif. data center run by CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis. Bloom Energy’s technology works to generate roughly 4.4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and help the Savvis facility cut nearly 1 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year, …

Savvis plans to open a 100,000 square-foot data center with a 4.8 megawatt-capacity in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area in the spring of 2014. The Savvis MP2 data center will be the area’s first multitenant tier-three data center and will be built to perform an initial 1.2 megawatt capacity with 13,000 square feet …

Savvis has been selected by a workers’ compensation insurer to provide data center services intended to help the organization recover data in the event of a system disruption. Patriot National Insurance Group chose the CenturyLink subsidiary for its offering that integrates colocation and cloud computing services, the insurance holding company …

Jonathan King, Savvis’ vice president of cloud strategy and business development, says there is overlap between his company’s cloud portfolio and a new VMware infrastructure-as-a-service product, SiliconAngle reported Monday. Maria Deutscher writes King described VMware’s vCloud Hybrid as a platform that aims to tap a large unaddressed space in the hybrid cloud …

Savvis Inc. has appointed Ian Bryant, Eric McDougal and Nick Barley as vice presidents for advanced services, sales and global marketing respectively in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The three executives will work to grow the CenturyLink company’s cloud, hosting and colocation services across EMEA, Savvis said Tuesday. …

Savvis, has joined the advisory board of a project led by data infrastructure software provider Pivotal that works to provide an open platform-as-a-service offering to the cloud community. The Century Link subsidiary also signed a community contributor license agreement with Cloud Foundry to help developers and other organizations make cloud-based applications, Pivotal announced …

CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis has launched a new data center services portfolio intended for virtualized networking, storage and computing in a hybrid cloud computing environment. The Cloud Data Center infrastructure combines a VMware cloud management tool and a unified Cisco data center platform, Savvis said Thursday. Andrew Higginbotham, Savvis chief technology …

CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis plans to grow its network of data centers in Asia, Europe and North America this year to address the increasing demand for its information technology services. The subsidiary will construct new centers in Hong Kong and London and also modify eight other facilities,  said Tuesday. Savvis intends to …