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Article: AT&T Takes to the Cloud.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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AT&T broke into the cloud business Tuesday with the "global launch" of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting and describes as a next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.
It's talking about a complete pay-as-you-go turnkey hosting package using either a virtual or dedicated platform.
It's planning to put a billion dollars into this global network this year dedicating five so-called super-IDCs or Internet data centers in the US, Europe and Asia to the effort and using technology it acquired from USinternetworking (USi). AT&T points out that it's got 38 IDCs in its global Internet Protocol (IP) ...