SVVS News SAVVIS Aligns and Strengthens Operations, Product Engineering and Development with Key Management Changes
ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in IT infrastructure
services for business applications, today announced key management
changes improving the alignment of the company’s
technical and operating groups, product engineering, development,
customer service and support. The changes reflect the company’s
focus on improving infrastructure quality and service reliability,
optimizing and enhancing processes and systems, and targeting markets
and customers.
Timothy Caulfield and Michael Tardif have been promoted and appointed as
Senior Vice Presidents reporting directly to Phil Koen, SAVVIS Chief
Executive Officer.
Caulfield was named Senior Vice President of Operations where he leads
the company's technical and operating groups including: service
delivery, hosting and network services, security services, customer
support, carrier management, corporate quality, and capacity management.
Previously, Caulfield headed up SAVVIS’ Global
Solutions team where he oversaw professional services, solution design
engineering, and customer account management.
Before joining SAVVIS in March 2004, Caulfield served as Senior Vice
President of Consulting and Hosting Services for Cable & Wireless
America and led operations for Exodus Communications which was acquired
by Cable & Wireless, PLC. Prior to these roles, he held business
development, operations, and marketing positions with Gateway Computer
and Sequent Computer Services, a division of IBM.
Tardif was named Senior Vice President of Product Engineering and
Development where he oversees the company’s
product roadmap and long term product strategy. He leads product
engineering, operations support software, technical assurance, portal
development, hosting products integration, project management and
quality control.
Previously, Tardif had served as Vice President & General Manager of
Global Hosting Services where he was responsible for providing overall
direction and strategy, guiding the development of new products and
services, identifying and evaluating emerging technologies, and
continuing to grow SAVVIS’ market share.
Prior to joining SAVVIS, Tardif served as Vice President of Technology
at VERITAS where he assisted businesses with their transformation to a
more demand-driven IT infrastructure. Prior to this, Tardif held senior
executive positions at Storage Networks where he oversaw delivery of
storage services to Fortune 100 clients, and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
where he led technical operations supporting a 2,000 person global IT
organization.
“Continually improving services for customers
and creating ongoing operational efficiencies is a key priority for
SAVVIS," said Phil Koen, Chief Executive Officer of SAVVIS. “These
changes improve the alignment of management and operations that will
result in the best possible experience for our customers as we build
SAVVIS’ presence as a global leader in
delivering IT infrastructure as a service.”
SAVVIS operates a global network and 25 data centers in the U.S.,
Europe, and Asia encompassing more than 1.3 million square feet. It
offers customers a variety of flexible and cost-effective IT
infrastructure services that can easily be mixed and interchanged. These
include: enterprise network solutions, security services, and a broad
portfolio of hosting services that range from co-location, to managed
hosting on industry standard platforms, to the industry’s
first virtualized utility services, which deliver on-demand access to
server cycles, storage capacity, managed security, and network bandwidth.
AboutSAVVIS
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global leader in IT infrastructure
services for business applications. With an IT services platform
spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS leads the industry in
delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and
application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their
core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and
operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach
combines virtualization technology, a global network and 25 data
centers, and automated management and provisioning systems. For more
information about SAVVIS, visit: http://www.savvis.net
Forward-Looking Statements
This documentcontains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Actual results may differ materially from SAVVIS’
expectations. Certain factors that could affect actual results are set
forth as risk factors in SAVVIS’ SEC reports
and filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K and all subsequent
filings. SAVVIS assumes no obligation to update or supplement
forward-looking statements.
