Savvis board chair James Ousley, who until the announcement earlier this week had been serving as the company's interim CEO, would no longer have to add "interim" in the beginning of his title. The data center provider announced his appointment as the company's new CEO on Monday.

"The experience that we've had with Jim serving as interim CEO over the past two months has led the board to conclude that we already have the ideal candidate in the chief executive role," Chairman of the board's Corporate Governance Committee James Pellow said in a statement.

"The same confidence in Jim that caused us to put him in the leadership position during the management transition has led us to ask him to take on the role on a regular, full-time basis, and we are very pleased that he has accepted."

Ousley served as non-executive chairman at Savvis since 2006 and as director since 2002

Previous Savvis CEO Phil Koen resigned in January, citing a new opportunity but not disclosing much else about his post-Savvis plans.

Prior to stepping into the interim CEO role early this year, Ousley served as the company's non-executive chairman since 2006. He initially joined Savvis in 2002 as a director, one year after founding Vytek Wireless Corporation, where he served as CEO and director until 2004.

Also this week, Savvis announcement the appointment of a new executive for north Asia markets. Mark Smith, former Thomson Reuters executive, is the data center provider's new managing director for the region that includes Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Smith's new role will include supporting the company's relationship with Thomson Reuters in all Asian markets. Savvis made a deal with the market intelligence provider in 2009, whereby its data centers around the world will house Thomson Reuters' hosting solution for electronic trading firms. The product includes colocation and managed services.