AT&T Intros Cloud Computing Service

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By Webtorials on November 23, 2009 11:33 AM   2 Comments
att-small.jpgAT&T announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service(SM), its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity.

Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Service provides companies with a self-service approach for using IT solutions that are reliably delivered by AT&T over its highly-secure world-class network cloud.

Customers can use the service to quickly address demands for variable computing processing power and expand capacity to scale with their business requirements. In turn, AT&T delivers computing processing capacity that can scale to meet a business's immediate demand, along with management of the network, server, hardware and storage.

Please follow these links for the full text of the announcement, for detailed announcement information, and for information about the service.

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Author Profile Page Webtorials | November 23, 2009 12:13 PM | Reply

For an overview of cloud computing, please check out Jim Metzler's excellent and extensive paper, A Guide for Understanding Cloud Computing, at Webtorials.

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Author Profile Page Jim Metzler, Ashton, Metzler & Associates | November 23, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply


It was not that long ago that providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions was the province of a small number of Internet start-ups such as Amazon and Google. We now see traditional vendors such as AT&T getting further into that market.

In general, I was pleased by AT&T's announcemnt in part becasue I believe that competition is good as competition often drives down cost and sometimes drives up quality. However, IT organizations are currently being bombarded with a wide range of IaaS services - all with different price points, SLAs (don't hold your breadth) and support models. You can expect the entrance of new players and services to increase for the foreseeable future creating somewhat of a chaotic market.

The bottom line is that IT organizations have a wider range of outsourcing options (I look at IaaS as just one more form of outsourcing)than they have ever had before. Enough options to drive an IT organization crazy trying to figure them all out and trying to figure out what is actually real.

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