May 1, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Tuesday it has signed a three-year hosting services contract with CPA and consulting firm Clifton Gunderson (cliftoncpa.com). AT&T will provide additional space for Clifton Gunderson’s servers at one of its Chicago-area Internet data centers.
AT&T provides hosting services at 36 IDCs around the world. AT&T’s IDCs are highly-secure, fortified buildings and are designed to house mission- critical data for business customers. Customers at these centers are protected from power failure, physical intrusion and network outages by extensive back-up power and cooling systems, multi-layered security and fire protection.
Clifton Gunderson, like many companies, requires additional hosting capacity to securely house a growing and increasingly important set of business applications and systems and to provide enough capacity to accommodate future communications needs.
AT&T also provides Clifton Gunderson with virtual private network services, integrating some 42 offices in 14 states and Washington, D.C. The network services are based on AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching platform, enabling Clifton Gunderson to prioritize its applications to ensure that all offices have sufficient bandwidth.
