Savvis - Hybrid Clouds

Savvis, Inc. is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. They need to manage the API lifecycle across versions, and there is a critical need to ensure that APIs remain available and uncompromised despite the threat of attack by bad actors, or misuse by inexperienced customers. They chose Layer 7 to overcome these challenges. Layer 7's CloudSpan CloudControl Gateway is deployed as an API proxy to abstract and intermediate the publicly exposed VPDC REST-based API, transforming, providing federation for, and rerouting requests without impacting the underlying API. This resulted in streamlined, API-driven way to onboard customers to the cloud, while delivering API protection and management without coding, to ensure that customer quality of service.