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Seeking to capitalize on the migration to Internet-based computing services, Town and Country-based Savvis Inc. released on Monday a new product that allows customers to better manage their information technology systems online.

The practice of moving away from hardware and software to programs and data storage on shared networks, known as cloud computing, is an accelerating trend.

A study commissioned by Savvis this year estimated that the number of companies that rely mostly on in-house IT infrastructure will drop to 49 percent in 2020 from 82 percent today.

However, many applications cannot easily communicate with one another in "the cloud," and customizing them so they can is often an expensive endeavor.
Savvis’ newest cloud computing product, the Symphony Virtual Private Data Center, lets customers ratchet up or down resources they need rather than buying a one-size-fits-all service.

It also lets customers easily combine applications within a cloud to organize their own data centers, Bryan Doerr, Savvis’ chief technology officer, said during a Monday conference call no teletrack payday loan.

For instance, a company could combine security, marketing and data-sharing applications within its own data cloud hosted by Savvis, Doerr said.

That type of application integration has not been readily accessible in cloud computing, said Steve Powell, president of Delta Systems, an IT, Internet and network hosting company in Columbia, Mo. Getting applications to communicate with each other on a cloud platform is generally expensive and hard to coordinate.

Savvis’ new offering is "definitely upping the ante," he said.

"If I were running an IT department in a medium to large company, I’d definitely give it a look," Powell said.

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