Ellie Mae,  a provider of innovative software and services for the mortgage industry, recently signed an agreement with SAVVIS, Incorporated, a leading provider of infrastructure services for business applications.

Under the terms of the agreement, Ellie Mae will relocate and consolidate its U.S.-based IT infrastructure into two SAVVIS data centers in Santa Clara, California and Chicago, Illinois, leveraging a single-vendor environment to enhance connectivity between its redundant data centers.

Using SAVVIS' IT infrastructure, Ellie Mae will deploy its web-based business services, including its popular Encompass Mortgage Management Solution, with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. The solution will feature SAVVIS' Application Transport Network (ATN), which is integrated with most of its 29 data centers worldwide and further virtualizes and optimizes the delivery of enterprise applications.

"SAVVIS' global IT services platform has allowed us to consolidate and simplify our infrastructure by providing us with a streamlined and unified environment that not only synchronizes data more efficiently, but also offers a more consistent operation," said Jonathan Corr, Ellie Mae's chief-strategy-officer. "At the same time, we continue to drive toward a greener data center. SAVVIS' carrier-grade IT services will improve the performance of the Encompass mortgage services applications and our customers will get higher reliability and redundancy as a result."

"Ellie Mae is a great fit for SAVVIS because our company's IT infrastructure platform is ideally suited to underpin and enable Software-as-a-Service business models," said James Whitemore, the chief-marketing-officer of SAVVIS. "We look forward to building a long-term relationship with Ellie Mae as a trusted IT services partner as their business continues to grow in the financial services sector."