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How can cloud-based co-location help mitigate the risks including failures in security, network and power supply?

Smith: Self-provisioning, automation and resource pooling are key value propositions of cloud computing.

Co-location coupled with cloud can help mitigate the risks by ensuring 100% availability and protection of organizations' mission-critical IT infrastructure that is supported by 24/7 onsite customer service.

For example, the Savvis VPDC service offering is an enterprise class solution that allows customers to self provision a multi-tier cloud infrastructure together with its associated data center assets without human interventions -- a software company can spin up a three-tier hardware arch with firewall and load balances without having to make a trip down, through Savvis' portal.


Mark Smith, managing director of Savvis Asia, is responsible for building Savvis' IT services and cloud computing business within Asia Pacific and Japan. Savvis is a CenturyLink company.