Savvis and VMware to expand VMware vCloud Hybrid Service locations

VMworld 2013, ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Savvis, a CenturyLink company, and VMware Inc. have expanded their partnership to include Savvis' adoption of VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the general availability of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service and VMware's agreement with Savvis to be its hosting partner in the US and Canada:

* By deploying instances of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service within Savvis' North American data center footprint in 2013 and 2014.
* By Savvis' adoption of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service in its cloud orchestration roadmap.
* Through development of complementary, secure low-latency network services for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service customers using the CenturyLink global network.

"Savvis is proud to expand our VMware partnership to integrate our offerings with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service," said Jeff Von Deylen, president of Savvis. "Customers using VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will benefit from our broad portfolio of network, colocation, managed hosting, managed services and cloud services to enable custom IT solutions. Hybrid cloud customers are looking for the kind of secure, low-latency network connectivity solutions that Savvis and CenturyLink can provide."

"Building on VMware's longstanding relationship with Savvis, this alliance will enable new and existing business applications to run seamlessly both on- and off-premises," said Bill Fathers, senior VP and GM, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "Customers can gain new data center locations for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service and complementary network, colocation, hosting and managed services from Savvis to accelerate their move to cloud."