Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Cloud Computing: AT&T positioned in leaders' quadrant by Gartner

[PRNewswire] AT&T today announced that it was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's 2009 Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand) Report.

In the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand) Report, Gartner evaluated AT&T's ability to execute and completeness of vision.

With 38 global Internet data centers (IDCs) in 10 countries, AT&T is the industry's largest network-based provider of managed hosting and infrastructure services. In August 2008, AT&T announced AT&T Synaptic Hosting, its next generation, utility-based platform that creates a virtual IT infrastructure where business customers can receive computing processing, services and support instantaneously and at scale.

AT&T also recently announced AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, its first pure on-demand cloud computing offer which provides enterprise-class storage service that lets customers use the AT&T network cloud to store, distribute and retrieve data as needed to meet their business requirements. The service automatically scales storage capacity up or down as needed, and users pay only for the amount they use.

"In my opinion, AT&T's position in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner is a clear validation of AT&T's broad vision for cloud computing, as well as the ability to serve our customers worldwide with advanced managed services offerings and Internet data center services," said Roman Pacewicz, senior vice president, Strategy and Application Services, AT&T Business Solutions.

AT&T Hosting and Application Services provides a variety of hosted infrastructure, managed services and managed applications capabilities that support the IT operations of customers ranging from small and midsize businesses up to the largest global corporations. Customer applications enabled by AT&T include corporate Web sites, e-commerce, digital content delivery, multiplayer online gaming, collaborative intranets and extranets, data backup and recovery, enterprise resource planning and more.

AT&T Positioned by Analyst Firm as a Leader in Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services

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