Network equipment provider Cisco and internet infrastructure services supplier Savvis are to team up to provide private clouds for businesses. Cisco and Savvis have actually been collaborators since 2006 when they started jointly offering IT infrastructure solutions to businesses.

The new cloud-based service from Savvis and Cisco will utilise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and a private clouds platform from Savvis and Cisco’s Unified Computing System. Utilising an MPLS next generation network, the two companies are hoping the cloud IT infrastructure services will prove to be popular.