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Video Interview with Joey Widener, AT&T

Riding on the swelling wave of utility and cloud computing solutions that have been rapidly surfacing in the industry over the last few months, in August, AT&T launched AT&T Synaptic Hosting, an offering the company describes as "its next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses."

As part of AT&T's $1 billion planned global network investment in 2008, the new utility computing service combines technology acquired from USinternetworking with five "super IDCs" (Internet data centers) in the US, Europe and Asia.

The company says a core feature of its service is its next-generation utility computing platform, enabling customers to use the AT&T network to manage applications, compute resources on servers and store data.

A snapshot of the network diagram of AT&Ts Synaptic Hosting service.

Additionally, AT&T says the service is integrated into a virtualized "pay-for-what-you-use" infrastructure than can adapt to changing demands from users or applications.

While in Las Vegas, WHIRtv sat down with Joey Widener, senior product manager for AT&T's hosting and application services about AT&T's push into the utility computing market.

Anastasia Tubanos was a writer, producer and host for theWHIR TV. She is a Graduate of The Ryerson University School of Journalism in Toronto. Her archive blog covers web hosting events, industry insight and extensive interviews of the Web hosting industry's greatest minds.... (Read full bio)

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