AT&T’s First Super Internet Data Centre in Asia
Located in Singapore, the data centre will deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting
– next-generation utility computing services to businesses in the
region. The move is part of AT&T's $1 billion planned global network
investment in 2008 to increase its global data centre hosting capacity.
The
company has 38 data centres in its global Internet Protocol (IP)
network. Other super Internet Data Centre (IDCs) are located in
Piscataway, New Jersey; San Diego, California; Annapolis, Maryland and
Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which will form the regional hubs in the
US and Europe.
The
AT&T IDCs allow it to deliver scalable enterprise-class IT services
around the globe. In addition to the hosting services available in all
other centres, the super IDC supports large-scale computing and
application infrastructure on demand that can be combined with other
AT&T hosting services, such as managed networking, virtualized security,
application acceleration and storage.
Companies can deliver end-user applications infrastructure whenever and
wherever they are needed on a pay-for-use model. The new services can be
accessed from anywhere in the world and combines technology acquired by
AT&T from application service provider USinternetworking.
AT&T
Synaptic Hosting platform is a next-generation utility computing
platform delivering a virtual hosting solution with features that allow
businesses to scale computing resources up or down as needed, pay only
for the capacity they use and manage applications in the AT&T network
cloud.
The
AT&T Synaptic Hosting service comes with designated account support,
backed by a single end-to-end, service-level agreement.
Utility
computing, says AT&T, is an ideal solution for companies with changing
business needs and IT demands such as seasonal, temporary,
unpredictable, or where end-user IT usage spikes are a given.
