NewsDude
08-05-2008, 10:00 PM
On-demand data centers took another step toward becoming commonplace today, as AT&T announced the global launch of its Synaptic Hosting service.
Synaptic Hosting offers what the company called its "next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses." Customers will be able to purchase large-scale computing and applications on demand, through virtualized servers. Services to the user will be provided through AT&T's IDCs, or Internet data centers.
Paying Only for Capacity Used
Ron Spears, group president of AT&T Global Business Services, said that Synaptic Hosting "is driving the convergence of networking and hosting services in ways that are allowing companies to deliver end-user applications whenever and wherever they are needed -- while paying only for the capacity used."
Such cloud-based, on-demand computing is becoming a regular offering of many major companies, including IBM, Amazon and Google. A target for such services are companies whose business has spikes, either because of changes in seasons or other reasons, such as retailers with holiday sales, game publishers running their own online applications, and others.
AT&T says that Synaptic Hosting can offer "greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings" for customers. For instance, a company can potentially eliminate or reduce its need for an in-house data center. The downside is that the company becomes dependent on an outside provider, which, as in the case of Amazon's storage service last month, can suffer an outage that leaves the customer helpless.
Synaptic Hosting also offers a utility-computing platform through which customers can manage applications, resources and data. It also provides a single, end-to-end service-level agreement for each account, as well as personalized support and application monitoring and reporting.
Over time, the service will be extended to encompass other AT&T services, such as unified communication, content distribution, dynamic backup, and on-demand high-resolution images like X-rays and CT scans.
'Super IDCs'
The service...
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Synaptic Hosting offers what the company called its "next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses." Customers will be able to purchase large-scale computing and applications on demand, through virtualized servers. Services to the user will be provided through AT&T's IDCs, or Internet data centers.
Paying Only for Capacity Used
Ron Spears, group president of AT&T Global Business Services, said that Synaptic Hosting "is driving the convergence of networking and hosting services in ways that are allowing companies to deliver end-user applications whenever and wherever they are needed -- while paying only for the capacity used."
Such cloud-based, on-demand computing is becoming a regular offering of many major companies, including IBM, Amazon and Google. A target for such services are companies whose business has spikes, either because of changes in seasons or other reasons, such as retailers with holiday sales, game publishers running their own online applications, and others.
AT&T says that Synaptic Hosting can offer "greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings" for customers. For instance, a company can potentially eliminate or reduce its need for an in-house data center. The downside is that the company becomes dependent on an outside provider, which, as in the case of Amazon's storage service last month, can suffer an outage that leaves the customer helpless.
Synaptic Hosting also offers a utility-computing platform through which customers can manage applications, resources and data. It also provides a single, end-to-end service-level agreement for each account, as well as personalized support and application monitoring and reporting.
Over time, the service will be extended to encompass other AT&T services, such as unified communication, content distribution, dynamic backup, and on-demand high-resolution images like X-rays and CT scans.
'Super IDCs'
The service...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61155)