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Savvis latest managed service offering, Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), is aimed at enterprises that want the control and security benefits of a 32 data centers private network, while enjoying the cost advantages of a multi-tenanted cloud environment. Starting with VPDC, Savvis is automating their order processing and 22,000 fully managed private circuits fulfillment capabilities, allowing customers to utilize APIs in order to provision compute instances, multiple tiers of storage, networking, redundant bandwidth, load >17,000 miles of fiber balancers, firewalls, and more. The APIs expose select middleware functions to customers for programmatic use over the Internet or through private-line access.
With Layer 7s CloudControl Gateway in place, when Savvis enterprise customers send requests to the VPDC API, the message is intercepted by Layer 7 and authenticated against Savvis LDAP. If the request originated from a valid customer, Layer 7 then queries Savvis entitlements database to determine which product APIs the customer is entitled to invoke; what level of service they have purchased for each product; and then dynamically sets quotas and throughput limits in the appropriate Layer 7 policies.
The message is then passed to the VPDC API where it is processed in conjunction with Savvis business process engine and configuration database in order to instantiate the requested private cloud infrastructure, including storage, network devices, managed security services, virtual machines, and more. The Layer 7 Gateway allows Savvis to leverage policy in order to easily create virtual endpoints for different purposes. For example, the same backend API can be exposed as either a production endpoint for customer use, or else as a trial endpoint that offers only limited usage.
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With the vast majority of Savvis cloud customers looking to create hybrid deployments that straddle enterprisebased and hosted deployments, Symphony VPDC is on track to become a key competitive differentiator for Savvis. In this context, Layer 7 plays a critical role in providing Savvis with a streamlined, API-driven way to onboard customers to the cloud, while delivering API protection and management without coding. By centrally configuring security in the Layer 7 CloudSpan CloudControl Gateway rather than in API code, Savvis has sped up deployment, eliminating the API security development/test/deploy cycle. Centralization also gives Savvis a single point from which to push out API policies and policy updates to all of Savvis data centers, thereby lowering administration costs. Layer 7 also addresses Savvis service provider operational requirements, including helping to ensure that customer quality of service obligations conform to contractual limits.
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