"AT&T to introduce new cloud computing service" on Siliconindia News Bureau
Global telecom company AT&T has expanded its
portfolio of cloud-based services to include on-demand compute capacity.
The addition of Synaptic Compute as a Service offering
strengthens AT&T's position in competing with other large cloud-based services providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google. The telecom company
already offers cloud-based storage and hosting services.
"As companies increasingly move to cloud-based environments, AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service provides a much-needed
choice for IT executives who worry about over-building or under-investing in
the capacity needed to handle their users' traffic demands," said Roman
Pacewicz, Vice President of Strategy and Application Services, AT&T.
The service, expected to launch in the fourth quarter
of 2009, will feature a Web-based interface, pay-as-you-go billing structure
and multiple storage options for use with the existing Synaptic Storage
offering. AT&T said that there will be no up-front fees, long-term
obligations or early-termination penalties.
The company partnered with the leading virtualization
software developer VMware and multi-faceted technology company Sun to develop
its newest offering. The product is using VMware's vSphere hypervisor and
vCloud API.
The company will deploy the service in the U.S, but it
will be accessible from anywhere through the internet. It Plans to expand the
offering globally in the future.
Cloud computing is here. Running applications on
machines in an Internet-accessible data center can bring plenty of advantages.
Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For
on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system,
some way to store data, and perhaps more. Applications running in the cloud
need a similar foundation. The goal of Microsoft’s Windows Azure is to provide
this. Part of the larger Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure is a platform
for running Windows applications and storing data in the cloud.
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which
dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service
over the Internet. To deploy a new solution, most of your time and energy is
spent on defining the right infrastructure, hardware and software, to put
together to create that solution, Cloud computing allows people to share
resources to solve new problems. Cloud computing users can avoid capital
expenditure (CapEx) on hardware, software, and services when they pay a
provider only for what they use.
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