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 be served by the same […] More

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 in recurring revenues for colocation, […] More

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 to Savvis as a partner […] More

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 cloud, managed-hosting and colocation services. […] More

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, Savvis said Tuesday. Steve Garrou, […] More

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, Savvis announced Thursday. “Our finance, […] More

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, Mathur has served as executive […] More

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, CenturyLink said Monday. “We must […] More

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 of raised floor space when […] More

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 said Tuesday. Marc Capri, Savvis […] More

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 market Savvis is a service […] More

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. James Parker, senior vice president […] More