The Virtual Intelligent Hosting is based on VMware's infrastructure platform.

SAVVIS, Inc. a company that provides IT infrastructure services for business applications, today announced the availability of Virtual Intelligent Hosting, a flexible and scalable managed IT service based on its hosting and network infrastructure with VMware's third-generation virtualization software suite.

The company's hosting claims to offer business and government enterprises an easy, flexible, and scalable way to benefit from virtualized computing. The Company integrates VMware Infrastructure 3 software with its hosting, storage, and network services in order to deliver a seamless virtualized computing solution that is expected to addresses IT infrastructure optimization challenges.

The company believes that the benefits of virtualized IT infrastructure or the customers are optimum application availability and capacity management, automatic data and systems protection, and rapid recovery from failures while avoiding up-front capital expense for server, storage, network, and security devices.

The Virtual Intelligent Hosting solution is available on Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, and Red Hat Linux operating systems, all stated to be delivered on an industry standard managed compute and storage infrastructure. Compute nodes can be chosen in multiple CPU configurations from Intel and/or AMD. The storage solution is based on a storage area network with several configurations, while failover features are in place to ensure application availability.

"SAVVIS' innovative new offering puts them at the forefront of a movement to provide a hosted virtualized IT infrastructure service." said Bogomil Balkansky, senior director, product marketing at VMware. "We are pleased to work with SAVVIS as they roll out their new virtualized offering. Customers can now realize all the benefits of virtualized infrastructure, such as optimum availability, dynamic load balancing, flexibility to provision and deploy new workloads in minutes, not hours, and rapid recovery from failures, while paying only for the computing capacity they require."