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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly.AT&T; opened the first super Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Asia, located in Singapore.
The super IDC, an expansion of AT&T;'s existing facilities, will act as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T; network to deliver AT&T; Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility computing services.
The opening is part of a US$1 billion planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data center hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centers in AT&T;'s global Internet Protocol (IP) network. Other 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.
"AT&T; continues to invest in growing its business to support customers and to meet the demands of multinational corporations for next-generation services and solutions," said Bernard Yee, vice president, AT&T; Asia Pacific. "To help customers in this challenging economic environment, the first super IDC in Asia, combined with our Synaptic Hosting platform, will offer them much greater flexibility to scale their information technology resources up or down to meet their business requirements. The super IDC will enable us to offer information technology and infrastructure service as turn-key managed infrastructure solutions on demand."
"In addition, AT&T; is going to offer managed application services within the sectors of enterprise resource planning software, eCommerce, WEB services, messaging and unified communications services to enhance our value proposition and managed services proposition for our customers in Asia and globally. Our goal is to allow them to focus on running their businesses while achieving greater flexibility, improved performance and further cost-savings," Mr. Yee said. AT&T; Synaptic Hosting platform(SM) 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(SM) service comes with designated account support, backed by a single end-to-end, service-level agreement that is unique within the industry. The utility computing features are 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.
The super IDC, an expansion of AT&T;'s existing facilities, will act as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T; network to deliver AT&T; Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility computing services.
The opening is part of a US$1 billion planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data center hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centers in AT&T;'s global Internet Protocol (IP) network. Other 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.
"AT&T; continues to invest in growing its business to support customers and to meet the demands of multinational corporations for next-generation services and solutions," said Bernard Yee, vice president, AT&T; Asia Pacific. "To help customers in this challenging economic environment, the first super IDC in Asia, combined with our Synaptic Hosting platform, will offer them much greater flexibility to scale their information technology resources up or down to meet their business requirements. The super IDC will enable us to offer information technology and infrastructure service as turn-key managed infrastructure solutions on demand."
"In addition, AT&T; is going to offer managed application services within the sectors of enterprise resource planning software, eCommerce, WEB services, messaging and unified communications services to enhance our value proposition and managed services proposition for our customers in Asia and globally. Our goal is to allow them to focus on running their businesses while achieving greater flexibility, improved performance and further cost-savings," Mr. Yee said. AT&T; Synaptic Hosting platform(SM) 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(SM) service comes with designated account support, backed by a single end-to-end, service-level agreement that is unique within the industry. The utility computing features are 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.