ST. LOUIS, August 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Provider of Infrastructure Management and Business Intelligence 
Solutions Using Savvis Virtual Lab for Customer Testing

Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS)(http://www.savvis.net/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx), 
a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for the 
enterprise, today announced an agreement to provide a virtual IT Lab 
solution to Column Technologies (http://www.columnit.com/), a global provider
of infrastructure management and business intelligence solutions, including a
variety of BMC Software and BMC Remedy business service management solutions.

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Column Technologies (BMC's "Elite" Global Partner) quickly needed a
virtualized IT lab to develop and test its new software-as-a-service (SaaS)
(http://www.savvis.net/en-US/Solutions/Software_Service/Pages/Home.aspx)
offering prior to production. The solution needed to address the full
lifecycle so that it would enable customer prototyping and testing before
deploying to production as well as being able to utilize a global resource
pool. Virtualization allows accelerated time to market and reduces
infrastructure costs typically associated with internal IT lab environments,
making it more cost-effective than competing for data center space.

Savvis' cloud-based virtual lab solution based on Skytap's Virtual Lab
(http://www.skytap.com/) enabled Column to deploy its SaaS offering in just 
days using the self-service interface. After just three months, Column 
expanded its usage to include test and development (T&D) of its core in-house 
applications, Column's Customer's applications, training environments and 
development and quality assurance due to cost savings and time-to-value.

"We now use the Savvis test and development environment for all our T&D
and have achieved flexibility and speed to production benefits that would not
have been possible using traditional IT infrastructure approaches," said Rob
Yario, principle, Column Technologies. "In addition, Column estimated a
savings of 35 percent using Savvis' solution versus competitors and in-house
options."

"Enhancing our services in test and development with Skytap, Savvis has
the resources to quickly deploy a high performance Virtual Lab solution for
Column Technologies," said Larry Steele, technical vice president, SaaS,
Savvis. "We look forward to expanding our relationship with Column as they
continue to advance their software-as-a-service business model."

About Column

Established in 1998, Column Technologies Inc. is a global, technology;
management consulting and services company. Our customer focused end to end
to solutions approach enable governments and companies improve: service, cost
basis and operational efficiencies. Headquartered in the United States,
Column has regional offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, South
Africa and India and a worldwide network of partners.
http://www.columnit.com/index.aspx

About Savvis

Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS) is a global leader in outsourced internet
infrastructure services for the enterprise. More than 4,000 customers,
including 40% of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to
reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest
advances in cloud computing. For more information about Savvis, visit
www.savvis.net

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