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Why CenturyLink + Savvis


The IT Leader’s Dilemma

1.2 ZettaBytes in 2010

Data Exploding at Unprecedented Rates

Bytes of Information Created Since 1/1/2011

000,732,857,849,938,574,571,038** Tracking to 2.0 ZettaBytes in 2011 (as of 5/12)

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Businesses Will Require Anytime Anywhere Access to Their Information & Applications

As Complexity Increases . . .

IT CoreHeadquarters

Mobile Devices

Website Call Centers

Remote Workforce

Transactions


The IT Leader’s Dilemma

IT Spend as a Percentage of Revenue

Continues to Grow

IT Must Become More Efficient

Cost of Managing Information

Insatiable Appetite

for Information

*Source: EMC Digital Universe


Top IT Issues for 2011

Should an application be accessible on the Internet, on a private WAN, or both?

top 5 priorities include:

What is the best way to ensure predictable performance of cloud-based applications?

What can be done to accommodate the needs of bandwidth-intensive applications?

What tools are available to maintain visibility and control of virtualized infrastructure?

How will all of this change over time, and what’s it going to cost?

Are these your priorities?


CenturyLink + Savvis

What does the combined company offer your business and the IT

challenges you face?

1) , you have access to a robust, national 207,000-route mile fiber network and a 190,000-mile global access network.

48 data centers, 1.9 million sq. ft. of floor space,approximately 210,000 miles of fiber*

* The number of data centers will increase to 50 and the floor space will increase to 2million sq.ft by mid-November 2011



Offers customers one-stop access to combined industry leaders in IT infrastructure management

and networking



Securely deliver your applications over a seamless, scalable platform

with end-to-end SLAs

Allows you to specify and right size your data center and backbone

network requirements more holistically

Deploy data center applications faster and more flexibly while

reducing operational costs



Combined Network Provides You With …..

Breadth and Depth• 40G Global IP network and choice of public, private, enhanced access• Diverse and redundant 10G backplane• End-to-end infrastructure for performance and security

Availability• Architected for cloud and critical systems redundancy• High reliability for failover• Disaster recovery options

End-to-End SLAs• Security• Performance• Availability



Combined Virtual Data Centers… Provides You With…

Flexibility• Dynamic resource allocation• Dynamic configuration change• Deployment options• Scalable bandwidth services

Performance• Guaranteed I/O bandwidth• Balance resource utilization• Fast provisioning time• Industry-leading service level agreements

Security• Security policy per virtual machine• Standards compliance• End-to-end layers of security



… you can do this with one solutions provider



person to call to address all of your needs

award-winning professionals to support you

of the time only one contact is needed to resolve an issue—letting you focus on your core business

accuracy in invoicing, simplifying your expense management

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90%

99%


Cloud Portfolio


Savvis Leads in Cloud & Network Services

•Enterprises migrating into cloud model to transform IT infrastructures into agile, business growth-driven architectures

•Savvis enables this transformation by delivering converged cloud services: managed virtualized hosting environments tightly integrated with a secure, low-latency global distribution network and related capabilities

•Savvis is a recognized leader• Positioned as a leader in Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and

Web Hosting (Gartner, Dec 2010) • Lowest Latency Public IP Network (Keynote Systems, Dec 2010)


Secure Facilities Enterprise Equipment Intelligent Management Tools

Managed Storage and Backup

Managed Security

Managed Network

Professional Services

ProximityHosting

ManagedApplications Web Hosting

SaaSEnablement

BusinessContinuity

ContentManagement

ColocationIntelligentMonitoring

ManagedHosting

(Dedicated)

Savvis Symphony(Dedicated and

Multi-Tenant Clouds)

Savvis Cloud Portfolio


CenturyLink Cloud Portfolio

Security

Applications

IT Infrastructure

Communications

PCI-Compliant Hosting and Contact Center Solutions

Hosted Unified Communications (HUCs)

Web Mail

Managed Security Services

Savvis Symphony Cloud Services

Fax over E-mail

Web Services

Microsoft Exchange®

Microsoft Windows SharePoint® Services

Online

BackupAVAS

Intrusion Detection

Web Defense

Secure IP Gateway

DDoS Mitigation

Professional Security Services

Real-time Application Recovery

Storage Services

Backup Services

Managed Hosting Services

Notify

Interaction Routing

Hosted IVR

On Demand IVRYOUR BUSINESS

Colocation

Web Hosting

Business ContinuitySecure Facilities

Enterprise Equipment

Intelligent Management Tools

Managed Applications

Proximity Hosting

Content Management

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