Savvis Unveils Full Hadoop-as-a-Service Suite

 
Savvis, a CenturyLink subsidiary that provides data center services, has launched a suite of big data services, offering compute storage and network capabilities to support analytics applications.The suite includes Savvis’ managed services for Cloudera and MapR platforms based on Apache Hadoop. The solutions include hosted, fully managed hardware and software services for optimizing data storage, integration, retrieval and analysis.

Steve Garrou, VP of global solutions management at Savvis, explained: “Businesses wanting to transform their operations and customer experiences through powerful, new analytics capabilities need a robust IT foundation.”

Infrastructure, software and security are all provided as a service. The company is offering licensing and operations management for both Cloudera and MapR Hadoop distributions, including configuration, management upgrades and security. Savvis is also offering planning and implementation services, including environment design, security planning and project management, in addition to consulting services for client business-case development.