SAVVIS Opens New Data Center in Atlanta Metro Area.New Facility Delivers IT "Infrastructure as a Service" and Provides Key Disaster Recovery Services for Companies in Hurricane Corridor ATLANTA -- SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SVVS SVVS Savvis, Inc (stock symbol) SVVS Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society (UK) SVVS Unix System V Verification Suite SVVS System V Verification Suite ), a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business and government applications, today announced that it has completed construction and officially opened a new data center in Atlanta to meet growing demand for integrated hosting and network services. The new facility serves as an important link for Atlanta and Southeast-based businesses to tap into SAVVIS' global, network and hosting IT infrastructure. The new facility offers the latest in power systems, network technology and capacity, and operations expertise, offering businesses an exceptional environment for running their IT systems and applications. The unique location of the facility also enables customers to minimize region-specific threats such as hurricanes to their IT operations. "Atlanta is a key business hub in the U.S.," said James Whitemore, Chief Marketing Officer for SAVVIS. "Our new Atlanta New Atlanta Communications, LLC is a software company specializing in products to ease creation of Web applications. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia and founded in 1998, the company markets 3 products: ServletExec, JTurbo, and BlueDragon. data center was built specifically to provide IT infrastructure as service to the growing number of Fortune 1000 firms with operations in Atlanta. In addition, Atlanta's location outside of the hurricane corridor makes it ideal for delivering vital disaster recovery and failover services for businesses throughout the Southeast." The Atlanta facility offers approximately 30,000 square feet of raised floor space and employs 25 people. It provides customers with up to 165 watts/square foot of conditioned power delivered by a five bus electrical system and backed up with uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators. To protect customers' mission critical applications and data, SAVVIS' Atlanta data center maintains exceptional 24/7 security features including guards, video monitoring systems, false entrances, vehicle blockades, and bulletproof glass Strictly, bulletproof glass would be glass that is capable of stopping most manner of bullets fired at it. Such glass cannot currently be made in any usable thickness (if at all), so what is loosely called bulletproof glass is, within the industry, referred to as and walls. Entrance pods, "man traps," and a biometric entry system ensure that only fully authorized personnel are granted admittance Admittance The ratio of the current to the voltage in an alternating-current circuit. In terms of complex current I and voltage V, the admittance of a circuit is given by Eq. (1), and is related to the impedance of the circuit Z by Eq. (2). to the facility. Hard Rock International, one of the world's most globally recognized brands, chose SAVVIS to provide a fully managed hosted area network solution linking more than 60 of the company's locations worldwide. The company chose SAVVIS' new Atlanta facility as a key location to deploy its business continuity and disaster recovery solution. "Business continuity and disaster recovery are fundamental IT requirements for our geographically dispersed operations," said Kelly Maddern, Sr. Director of Information Technology, Hard Rock International. "SAVVIS' experience with IT infrastructure, combined with their new Atlanta data center, makes them ideally suited to provide failover capabilities preventing any disruption in operations or service to our customers." "Atlanta represents a new and vibrant market for SAVVIS," said Phil Koen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SAVVIS. "As business becomes increasingly global by nature, IT infrastructure must scale accordingly. We look forward to working with Atlanta and southeastern businesses and are ready to help them enhance the way they manage their IT." With the opening of the Atlanta data center, SAVVIS operates 24 data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia encompassing approximately 1.1 million square feet. The company is currently completing construction and preparing to open additional data centers in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - New Jersey metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. , the Washington, D.C. metro area, and the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . About SAVVIS SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications. With an IT services platform spanning North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and operations. SAVVIS' strategic approach combines virtualization technology, a global network and 24 data centers, and automated management and provisioning systems. For more information about SAVVIS, visit www.savvis.net. Forward-Looking Statements This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from SAVVIS' expectations. Certain factors that could affect actual results are set forth as risk factors in SAVVIS' SEC reports and filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and all subsequent filings. SAVVIS assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements. |
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