Stories about: Savvis Communications

A network outage at hosting provider SAVVIS Communications has knocked a number of Web sites offline including Web portal Lycos.

Regulatory compliance requirements and concerns over data compromises have elevated the importance of information security issues in corporate boardrooms, according to panelists at the 32nd annual conference organized by the Computer Security Institute. And that trend is lending urgency to the need for security managers to adopt a more business-oriented approach to their jobs.

I recently attended a local meeting of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) to hear a presentation by Mark Loveless, who heads up the Razor research team at BindView.

ChartOne had invested heavily in a new Web-enabled application, only to discover that it reached end users too slowly. "We were having challenges running PeopleSoft efficiently," says Henry Svendblad, director of IT and information systems at the company, which provides technology services to health care institutions.

Equant NV is introducing a managed VPN service designed to reduce customer costs for international videoconferencing.

Continental Airlines has high-flying plans to expand its e-business infrastructure to Europe and Asia this year, and global load balancers are playing a pivotal role. In fact, says Andre Gold, director of Internet engineering at Continental, "If the [global] load-balancing technology fails, we fail. Our entire e-business strategy is based on this technology."

Continental Airlines has high-flying plans to expand its e-business infrastructure to Europe and Asia this year, and global load balancers are playing a pivotal role.

WorldCom, which already offers fully managed VPN services, this week launched a VPN service package that puts the management back in users' hands.

Savvis Communications Corp. has inked a joint marketing deal with Yipes Communications Inc. Yipes is selling Savvis, Internet access service to its customers, and Savvis is recommending Yipes local optical network services to its customers. While Yipes offers Internet access services from other ISPs, Yipes is selling the Savvis Internet access services as a "premium" offering for business users based on what it sees as Savvis' impressive performance and reliability statistics. Customers will pay more for the service but are expected to get better service-level guarantees. Yipes is a start-up service provider building fiber-optical local networks that offer users dedicated Gigabit Ethernet virtual LAN services in metropolitan areas.

Financial intranet and extranet provider Savvis Communications Corp. has awarded Nortel Networks Corp. an estimated US$155 million contract to deploy optical equipment into the Savvis network.

Savvis Communications Corp. this week launched new VPN services at NetWorld+Interop 2000 in Las Vegas.