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Company Overview of Savvis, Inc.

Company Overview

Savvis, Inc. an information technology (IT) services company, provides cloud, managed hosting, managed security, colocation, professional, and network services to businesses and government agencies worldwide. The company offers hosting services comprising colocation services for clients seeking data center space and power for their server and networking equipment needs; and managed hosting services for clients’ IT infrastructure and network needs. Its managed hosting services include cloud services; assistance and consultation in security for network and hosting environments, virtualization, Web-based applications, business recovery, software-as-a-service, program management, and infrastruct...

Detailed Description

1 Savvis Parkway

Town and Country, MO 63017

United States

Founded in 1995

2,440 Employees

Phone:

314-628-7000

Fax:

703-234-8150

www.savvis.com

Key Executives for Savvis, Inc.

President
Age: 47
Chief Financial Officer
Age: 60
Chief Operating Officer
Senior Vice President of U S Sales
Age: 56
Chief Commercial Officer
Age: 39
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

Savvis, Inc. Key Developments

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Relay IP Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits against Sprint, Juniper Networks, Cisco, and Others

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Relay IP has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Sprint Nextel Corporation, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Bloomberg L.P., Hitachi Cable America, D-Link Corporation, Avaya, Hewlett-Packard Company, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, TIBCO Software, BT Group, SAVVIS Inc., Zhone Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Allied Telesis, and Adtran (the "Defendants"). Relay is asserting infringement related to U.S. Patent number 5,331,637, entitled Multicast Routing Using Core Based Trees. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants have infringed, and continue to infringe, the claims of the patent in suit by using the accused IP Multicast systems and methods covered by the claims of the Relay patent.

Savvis Introduces Savvis ClientConnect

Savvis introduced Savvis ClientConnect, an online gateway for businesses to generate new revenue opportunities by connecting with other businesses located in one or more of Savvis' data centers. Designed to fuel data-center interconnectivity and ecosystem growth, Savvis ClientConnect helps media, financial service, healthcare and consumer-brands clients expand their capabilities by locating, connecting and sharing services with other businesses residing across Savvis' global data center footprint. Savvis ClientConnect is an optional tool available to existing Savvis clients through the SavvisStation portal, featuring, intuitive search functionality for locating other businesses that have opted in by facility, customer type and customer name; client profile pages, giving clients the ability to promote their presence in Savvis' data centers to other Savvis clients; rapid client-to-client cross-connect provisioning, with a deployment completion target of within 48 hours of ordering via the SavvisStation portal; visibility into interconnectivity opportunities with hundreds of Savvis colocation and managed services clients; and contact information to discuss potential business relationships.

Savvis, Inc. Announces Resignation of Jim Ousley as Chief Executive Officer, Effective April 1, 2013

CenturyLink, Inc. announced that Jim Ousley, chief executive officer of Savvis, Inc. has decided to retire from the company effective April 1, 2013. Ousley's role as senior leader of CenturyLink's Data Hosting segment will be filled by Jeff Von Deylen, whose title will remain president of Savvis.

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