AT&T Launches Cloud Computing Service

Posted on November 18, 2009 staff

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AT&T has launched a new online cloud computing service called Synaptic Compute as a Service or SCaaS.

This new offering, which will be available in the US by the end of the year, will expand on the company’s previous cloud storage service by giving customers access to distributed processing power.

The service has been implemented using the input and technologies of VMware and Sun Microsystems. VMware technology will control the service’s data center virtualization, while Sun Microsystems will handle networking software with Java and will provides the system’s storage hardware.

From AT&T’s Statement:

With AT&T’s Synaptic Compute as a Service, our latest innovative global cloud-based service, get simple, on-demand access to scalable computing capacity – for businesses of all sizes.

Program your application to routinely expand capacity during a block of days each month to handle your firm’s book closing. Increase computing power daily for processing driver schedules, route changes and other logistics. Program the service to respond to spikes in Web traffic from holiday sales or events, sports programs, short-term campaigns, emergencies and more. Build environments for safely testing new applications, or installing system upgrades without impacting the entire enterprise.

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, we’ll deliver computing processing capacity that can scale to meet a business’s immediate demand, along with management of the network, server, hardware and storage.

Other service features include:

A Web portal to order, provision and manually manage server capacity, or to program the APIs.

The convenience to pay only for the capacity used and receive a monthly bill that can, if desired, be paid with a credit card.

Multiple storage options including disk capacity for each virtual server’s operating system and space to share files between virtual servers, as well as the ability to connect to AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service.

Round-the-clock monitoring by AT&T support teams.

A service level agreement that covers availability of the platform that runs the customer’s virtual servers.

No upfront fees, no long-term obligations and no termination fees.