What Savvis Cloud Services Gain From AppFog

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Savvis, the cloud unit of the third largest telecom supplier in the U.S., CenturyLink, has acquired AppFog, a platform as a service (PaaS) that supports deploying applications to multiple cloud environments.  As part of Savvis, AppFog will add features that let developers create applications that link to data sources across different data centers or instantly clone themselves in a new location. The AppFog platform already contains a "clone" button that replicates an application and generates an up-to-date data feed to the new location.

When placed on top of the extensive CenturyLink network, "clone" could start to take on system backup and disaster recovery characteristics. "You can not only work on an application for a single infrastructure as a service. You can pick the infrastructure you want it to work on," Lucas Carlson, founder and CEO of AppFog in Portland, Ore., said in an interview. Savvis has completed the acquisition of AppFog and Carlson will serve as VP of cloud evangelism at the parent company…

Savvis has 55 data centers offering infrastructure services to enterprise IT managers, CTO Andrew Higginbotham told InformationWeek . Savvis wants to broaden its reach to enterprise developers as well, making it more likely that new applications designed for the cloud will run on its infrastructure as well…

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