"The Network That Powers Wall Street."
That’s how people in the financial services industry refer to Savvis — because our infrastructure served as the first IT backbone for many financial organizations. And with more than a decade of service in the financial sector, our experience has helped us develop one-of-a-kind solutions that give financial firms a true competitive advantage.
Trust The Network That Powers Wall Street To Empower Your Business.
1995
One of the driving forces behind Savvis was a financial information company called Bridge. In 1995, Bridge had a business problem: How to collect financial information from around the world, consolidate that information, and deliver it as part of a powerful trading system to hundreds of thousands of terminals. Events occurred in real-time and had to be very cost effective, with maximum flexibility for adding new applications, data streams, and clients. The big IT and telecom suppliers of the day could not deliver a solution to meet Bridge’s requirements. So Bridge built a real-time infrastructure that extended to 45 countries and delivered high reliability to trading terminals at excellent price points.
1996
Around the same time, DiamondNet was formed to fix the Internet performance problem by building a better Internet that avoided the public networking points that often got bogged down or targeted by viruses. DiamondNet changed its name to Savvis.
1999
Savvis was acquired by Bridge. The combination of Bridge’s global high-performance, secure private IT infrastructure and Savvis’ high-performance Internet represented a new breed of IT for the time that attracted the interest of customers and Wall Street. Savvis made its initial public offering (IPO) in February 2000 and consolidated the IT infrastructure of DiamondNet and Bridge at that time.
2002
Since then, Savvis has grown significantly - both organically and through acquisition. When Intel decided to exit the hosting business, it selected Savvis to provide hosting and network services to its clients.
2003
Savvis acquired the commercial business of WAM!NET and gained a significant footing and powerful application tools for the media and entertainment, print and publishing, retail, and consumer goods verticals.
2004
Savvis acquired the assets of Cable & Wireless USA, which included AS 3561, a Tier 1 Internet backbone spanning North America, 3,000 marquee enterprise customers, 15 data centers, and significant consulting experience from Exodus Communications.