Savvis wins federal cloud contract
September 13, 2013
Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Editorial Staff.
CenturyLink-owned Savvis has won a cloud hosting contract worth almost US$1.1m over three years from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The order was awarded to Savvis Federal Systems, which will provide managed, scalable public cloud hosting services for www.fcc.gov, myfcc.gov and the commission’s other public website domains.
The contract is for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and includes migration of the existing website infrastructure to a CenturyLink cloud data center. Last year, CenturyLink won two task orders to provide private Wide Area Network (WAN) services and Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services (MTIPS) to the FCC…
The two task orders could be worth close to $10m over the course of five years…
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