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ST. LOUIS, June 12, 2012 Savvis, a CenturyLink company (NYSE: CTL) and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) cloud solutions to clients in Canada through Savvis data center in Toronto.

Savvis continues to experience rapidly increasing global demand including in Canada for our proven, enterprise-ready cloud services, said John Witte, vice president and regional leader, Canada. The launch of Symphony VPDC on Canadian soil enables regional enterprises and global Savvis clients to improve their business agility through improved efficiency from their IT infrastructure.

Symphony VPDC is one of the industrys first enterprise-class virtual private data center cloud solutions with multi-tiered security, service and network profiles. The flexible service levels (Essential, Balanced and Premier) provide a range of features, support levels and performance to suit broad infrastructure profiles that enterprises demand. With industry-leading security elements, quality of service and service-level agreements (SLA), Symphony VPDC meets a range of needs including web hosting, test/development, mission-critical and other applications.

Symphony VPDC also can be integrated seamlessly to support hybrid cloud solutions that leverage Savvis managed hosting, colocation and network services.

Meridians Toronto-based software development division uses Symphony VPDC as a virtualized component of its overall IT solution to power its mzero software platform. Meridian, a kiosk and self-service device manufacturer, creates bundled self-service technology utilizing software and quality manufactured kiosk solutions.

As a Savvis colocation client based in Toronto, moving to the cloud was a natural progression. And now, with Symphony VPDC available in Canada, our options for powering our mzero platform are even stronger, said Paul Burden, director of software development at Meridian. Savvis provides us with industry-leading, flexible cloud and managed hosting solutions that meet our business requirements.

Leading analyst firm Gartner Inc. recently recognized Savvis as a Leader in two cloud-focused magic quadrants based on ability to execute and completeness of vision: the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting and the Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.

Globally, Savvis operates a Tier 1 application transport network and more than 50 data centers with more than 2 million square feet of raised floor space designed to support enterprise IT operations.

The announcement of the Canada launch of Symphony VPDC follows recent Savvis announcements about cloud expansions in Hong Kong and Japan.

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