AT&T Opens Super IDC in Singapore

• By Justin Lee, November 20, 2008

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider AT&T (www.att.com) announced on Thursday it is opening its first Asian super Internet data center in Singapore.

The super IDC expands on the capabilties of its existing facilities, providing a regional gateway to the Internet and its network to deliver its utility computing services, AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The facilties deliver "consistent, highly scalable, enterprise-class IT services around the globe," says AT&T.

The project is part of the company's $1 billion planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data center hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centers in AT&T's global IP network.

Earlier this year, the company announced plans to expand its data center space by 180,000 square feet, with facilties in Boston, Massachusetts, Dallas, Texas, Amsterdam and Singapore. Just six months prior, the company announced new data centers in Toronto, Canada and Piscataway, New Jersey.

The telecom has other super IDCs in Piscataway, New Jersey; San Diego; Annapolis, Maryland and Amsterdam, which will form the regional hubs in the US and Europe.

"AT&T continues to invest in growing its business to support customers and to meet the demands of multinational corporations for next-generation services and solutions," says Bernard Yee, vice president of AT&T Asia Pacific. "To help customers in this challenging economic environment, the first super IDC in Asia, combined with our Synaptic Hosting platform, will offer them much greater flexibility to scale their information technology resources up or down to meet their business requirements. The super IDC will enable us to offer information technology and infrastructure service as turn-key managed infrastructure solutions on demand."

In addition to the standard hosting services available in its other facilities, AT&T's super IDC supports large-scale computing and application infrastructure on demand that can be combined with hosting services such as managed networking, virtualized security, application acceleration and storage.

Using a pay-for-use model, companies can deliver end-user applications infrastructure on demand from anywhere in the world. The solution uses managed enterprise software solutions and on-demand services technology, which AT&T acquired from application service provider USinternetworking.

AT&T Synaptic Hosting platform is a utility computing platform that offers a virtual hosting solution. It enables businesses to scale computing resources up or down as needed, pay only for the capacity they use and manage applications in the AT&T network cloud. The service includes designated account support and a service-level agreement.

The WHIR's Anastasia Tubanos recently interviewed Joey Widener, senior product manager for AT&T's hosting and application services about the telecom's push into the utility computing market.

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