Business Editors

HERNDON, Va. & ST. LOUIS, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002

SAVVIS Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global managed IP and managed hosting services provider, today announced the enhancement of its "Fast Pack" Intelligent Hosting(SM) Solutions, expanding its recently launched single-server solutions to encompass multiple-server solution sets, while at the same time maintaining a 10-day provisioning schedule.

The expanded multi-server offering is geared toward enterprises that require more powerful managed hosting services, but still desire simplicity and bottom-line value. Customers can choose from a predetermined set of sophisticated server bundles without limiting the functionality required for robust Web and enterprise level services. This new multi-server release of Fast Pack augments SAVVIS' initial single-server solutions, which were geared towards companies seeking to migrate from shared server to dedicated server environments at prices that delivered an attractive return on investment. Single-server Fast Pack can be installed in as little as five days.

"Service providers have struggled to develop managed hosting solutions that combine affordability with performance," International Data Corporation (IDC) telecommunications research analyst Melanie Posey said. "There have been very robust solutions that were too expensive for most small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and, alternatively, ones that were affordable, but not powerful enough for business-class use," Posey continued. "The market is prepared to embrace affordable managed hosting services that leverage automated systems and deliver improved service levels, and reduced complexity at a lower price. SAVVIS appears to be capitalizing on that opportunity with its Fast Pack offerings."

"We looked at a variety of solutions for hosting data of vital importance to our overall program," said Wesley Smith, COO of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "We required a fully managed solution, bundled with critical core security services, and we needed it operational in days, not months. SAVVIS met this challenge."

Managed hosting, the provision of bundled services that enable companies to forego the purchase and maintenance of their own servers and network connections, currently represents one of the highest growth areas in telecommunications. Independent studies conducted by IDC project the hosting sector to grow to over $24 billion by 2005, from its current projection of $7 billion in 2002.

"Our vision of managed service delivery is quite different from that of other hosting providers," said Brad Hokamp, SAVVIS Executive Vice President of Product Management and Sales. "By leveraging the intelligence in our systems and our automated processes, we're able to deliver fully managed hosting services and world class support to the enterprise in a far faster delivery timeframe and at a lower price."

    How SAVVIS' Fast Pack Differs From Conventional Hosting Solutions
Available to SMEs:

SAVVIS Fast Pack                 vs.     Others

Five to ten day turn up          vs.     'Best effort' implementation

Bundled platform/services for    vs.     A la carte
common web solutions

New Compaq Proliant servers      vs.     Older off-brand servers
with Raid 1 or 5 disks and
1.3GHz processors

Servers located in a 1 year      vs.     Servers in rented telco
old $50 million data center              facility

Advanced online systems/         vs.     Generic up/down status
network statistics reporting
via web portal

Managed hosting solutions,       vs.     Unmanaged Internet
integrated  with Intelligent             access, disparate hosting
IP Networking(SM) for                    services
intranet, extranet or
Internet-based communities
of interest.

Security is a standard           vs.     Limited firewalling
service: bundled firewalling
or optional customized
rulesets

Fully managed solution:          vs.     Server- by-server monitoring
system, network (private                 without correlation to
and public), and hardware                overall solution performance.
reporting including 24 x 7
monitoring standard

Fully automated backup           vs.     Manually swapped internal
and recovery services                    DAT tapes.
using Veritas software

About SAVVIS

SAVVIS Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global network service provider (NSP) that delivers IP VPNs (virtual private networks), managed hosting and Internet services to medium-sized enterprises and the financial services market. The mid-market, which is underserved by traditional data communications carriers, is the fastest growing segment of the IP VPN market. In the demanding financial services industry, SAVVIS is a leading provider of high-performance networking services. SAVVIS' Financial Xchange(SM), a private IP VPN service platform, connects more than 4,700 financial institutions to financial applications and data worldwide. Financial Xchange(SM) is also one of the largest carriers of Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX) traffic in the United States and has partnerships with many FIX application and services providers.

Known as "The Network that Powers Wall Street"(SM), SAVVIS delivers the reliability, performance and security of traditional private networks, as well as the scalability and flexibility of the Internet, often at a price less than both. As a result, enterprises can connect their offices, partners and remote employees over an affordable private IP network and can also integrate SAVVIS' managed hosting services as well. The editors of Network Magazine named SAVVIS' IP VPNs Product of the Year for 2001.

SAVVIS beat out well-known VPN providers such as AT&T (NYSE: T), WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM), Sprint (NYSE: FON) and Genuity (NASDAQ: GENU). SAVVIS was ranked the eighth fastest-growing technology company in North America on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, which ranks companies based on five-year percentage revenue growth from 1996 - 2000. For more information about SAVVIS and its Intelligent IP Networking(SM), visit: http://www.savvis.net