01 September 2005
Foreshore and SAVVIS UK Limited, a leading global IT utility services provider, have signed a strategic alliance to extend their network by offering global caching services.
SAVVIS was founded in 1995 and is one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world, delivering a range of hosting, network, voice, application and professional IT services to businesses.
This alliance will enable Foreshore’s clients to maintain all the protection of an offshore contract while benefiting from improved performance, scalability and ’flashflood’ protection (or ’burstable bandwidth on demand’).
Chris Evans, Managing Director of Foreshore said: ’Strategic Alliances with global players in this league give us a distinct advantage in a competitive market. Global caching is the most cost-effective mechanism for managing and servicing peaks and troughs in bandwidth demand. There is a clear requirement from our customers that we remain a single point of contact for their specialist ecommerce. It is also vital that we continually enhance our portfolio of on-demand services while delivering economic benefits’.
Richard Warley Managing Director of SAVVIS EMEA said: "We are delighted with this new and exciting alliance. Together with Foreshores’ high quality offshore infrastructure services and SAVVIS’ global capabilities, SAVVIS and Foreshore can provide an extremely complementary suite of IT services".
About SAVVIS
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global IT utility services provider that focuses exclusively on IT solutions for businesses. With an IT services platform that extends to 47 countries, SAVVIS has over 5,000 enterprise customers and 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 virtualisation technology, a global network and 25 data centres and automated management and provisioning systems.