AT&T says its developer-focused cloud solution will launch in the next few days
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — US telecommunications provider AT&T is the first telecom service provider to join open source cloud organization OpenStack, according to an announcement on Monday.
OpenStack chief stacker and VP corporate development at Rackspace Jim Curry spoke at the AT&T Developers Summit at CES in Las Vegas Monday. Curry said AT&T’s support will help drive OpenStack forward, according to a report by PCWorld.
“We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management,” John Donovan, AT&T’s chief technology officer said in a blog post. “We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey. We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012.”
On Monday, AT&T also launched cloud services for mobile developers. In a blog post, Donovan said that AT&T undersands developers cloud needs differ from those of enterprises as developers need flexibility, affordability and speed in spinning up new services, in addition to requiring the same reliability and stability as enterprises.
AT&T’s new cloud service, Cloud Architect, will be available in the coming weeks and allow developers to provision public and private cloud instances or “build from the ground up” with bare metal or dedicated server options. With Cloud Architect, developers will be able to scale apps quickly and order new services via an online service portal.
AT&T says it will expand its developer-centric and other cloud services throughout the year.
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