SAVVIS Chosen By The Sporting News To Provide Hosting Services; SAVVIS Network Reliability and Data Center Footprint Cited As Keys To Ensuring and Expanding Access

Business Wire, April 7, 2003

Sports Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003

SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global managed IP and managed hosting services provider, today announced it has been chosen by leading sports publication The Sporting News (TSN) to provide hosting services to enable high-availability access to a premium service on the company's popular www.SportingNews.com Web site.

TSN, a Wired World Company, is a leading U.S. sports media company reaching some 18 million people weekly. Sporting News content is available through many sources, including its weekly magazine, web site, books, wireless devices, a radio network, and iTV.

Under the terms of the agreement, SAVVIS will provide TSN with hosting services and technical support through its hosting services data centers, thereby enabling high-availability 24/7/365 access to a premium service on SportingNews.com.

As a leading application infrastructure provider for the media & entertainment, healthcare, retail and financial services industries, as well as professional services firms worldwide, SAVVIS manages over 17,000 end-points in 45 countries and leads the industry by delivering 100 percent availability across its backbone and 99.999 percent end-to-end availability to client's facilities.

SAVVIS' managed hosting data centers in St. Louis, San Francisco, New York, and Singapore are premier facilities with the highest levels of security, redundancy, and on-site support.

SAVVIS has added additional hosting customers and data centers in Chantilly, VA, Santa Clara, CA, London, and Tokyo as part of an agreement with Intel Online Services who selected SAVVIS as the preferred provider to deliver a managed hosting services alternative to its clients in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan.

About SAVVIS

SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a managed services provider that delivers IP VPNs (virtual private networks), hosting, and applications services to businesses. SAVVIS solutions are designed for industries with demanding information technology requirements including: legal, media, retail, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services.

Known as The Network that Powers Wall Street(SM), SAVVIS was ranked #3 in IP VPN market share by IDC in its 2003 report, trailing only AT&T and WorldCom, and its network reliability was declared "perfect" in Network World magazine's groundbreaking study of backbone performance. SAVVIS' managed hosting services were awarded the Service Provider Excellence Award by Boardwatch magazine for its virtualized approach to managed hosting and the Market Engineering Award for product differentiation and innovation from Frost & Sullivan.

For more information about SAVVIS' Intelligent IP Network(SM) and managed hosting solutions, visit: http://www.savvis.net.