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Gartner Names Savvis to Cloud Hosting Magic Quadrant

By Mandira Srivastava, TMCnet Contributor

As the IT security has become an important issue, organizations of all sizes are considering taking services of Managed Security Service Providers to provide them with security guarantees.

 Savvis, Inc. , a company in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, announced that industry analyst firm Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. has positioned it in the visionaries quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for "Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), North America" published Nov. 29 and authored by Kelly M. Kavanagh and John Pescatore (News - Alert).  

According to a press release, Gartner projects continued growth for MSSPs in North America, but with a shift to mid-size or smaller buyers driving price erosion for core services, and the introduction of lower-price, multifunction firewall, log management and other new offerings. The company adds that increased enterprise use of software-as-a-services (SaaS (News - Alert)) and the "consumerization of IT" will lead to more cloud-based security-as-a-service offerings, which will grow faster than the customer-premises-equipment-focused MSSP market in the second half of 2010 and 2011.

According to Gartner, the companies in the visionaries quadrant have demonstrated the ability to turn a strong focus on managed security into high-quality service offerings for the MSS market and these service providers are often strong contenders for enterprises requiring frequent interaction with MSS analysts, flexible service delivery options and strong customer service.

Gartner also explains in the report that in 2009, North American MSSPs generated revenue of $1.8 billion, representing growth of 24 percent over 2008, while the number of firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) devices under monitoring/management grew more than 20 percent.

Savvis continues to advance its IT infrastructure services delivery platform and operational support systems throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company presently has 31 data centers globally, encompassing nearly 1.5 million square feet of space designed to support enterprise and government IT operations.

Chris Richter, vice present of security products and services for Savvis, said that managed security is a core element of Savvis' virtualized and cloud compute solutions, allowing our enterprise clients to reduce risk as they streamline and optimize their IT infrastructures.