SAVVIS, Inc. a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications has announced plans to develop four new data centers to help meet customer demand for SAVVIS' managed hosting and colocation services. SAVVIS will develop the centers, located in the Atlanta, New York and Washington, DC metropolitan areas and in Santa Clara, California, with the intention of making them available to customers in the fourth quarter 2007.
Phil Koen, SAVVIS' Chief Executive Officer said: "SAVVIS is focused on delivering IT infrastructure as a service and we're committed to being a leader in this space. Our new data center facilities, opening in the fourth quarter 2007, will provide customers with state-of-the-art managed hosting and colocation services, including our industry-leading virtualized utility services.
In total, the four centers will add approximately 180,000ft┬▓ of raised floor space. This increases SAVVIS' total data center footprint more than 10 percent to over 1.5 million ft┬▓. All of the new centers will be designed to exacting standards for security and reliability, power availability, cooling, network connectivity, and environmental controls. SAVVIS has executed lease agreements for each of the sites, one of which is contingent upon certain conditions expected to be met in January 2007.
SAVVIS will deliver a broad range of hosting, network, and security services from these data centers including colocation, managed hosting on dedicated platforms, and virtualized utility services that provide significant cost and performance benefits for enterprise customers. SAVVIS plans to reserve approximately 20% of each facility for managed hosting and virtualized utility services, offering customers the flexibility to mix, match, and add services within a single facility and across data centers.
SAVVIS anticipates spending approximately US$200 million in 2007 to fully develop the four centers. Given strong demand and limited supply of colocation facilities, the company expects that the 80% of space dedicated to colocation will be fully occupied within 18 to 24 months of opening, and that 20% of new space committed to the managed hosting services will be ample to meet customer demand for five to seven years.