Managed hosting specialist Savvis, Inc.(SVVS) today unveiled Savvis Cloud Compute, a new service that moves its utility computing service into the cloud, providing enterprise customers more flexibility in how they provision, manage and pay for services running in Savvis data centers.
Central to the new offering is an improved customer portal that gives users more control in provisioning virtual compute and storage capabilities, and the ability to purchase fractional compute resources on demand by the instance with flexible month-to-month business terms.
(Via Data Center Knowledge.)
This is one of the many VMware Powered Service Providers that will make the move to offer cloud based services. I think key to this new offering is the flexibility in how many cycles you actually use and how you get billed for it. Prior to this move Savvis used a more traditional hosted offering of paying for a server (virtual or physical) whether you were actually using those resources or not. This new move will open the offering to customers that perhaps are smaller or to customers that want more utility like services.
It will be interesting to watch the announcements from other Service Providers entering this space and how they go about differentiating from the others in the industry. Perhaps we’ll start to see providers focusing on offering “certified” cloud offerings for hosting HIPAA or PCI regulated content. That’s my guess for what’s next.
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