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September 27, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Communications and Web hosting provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Tuesday it had opened two additional data centers in San Jose, California and Shanghai, China and expanded the capacity of its New York facility by 27 percent. The expansion brings the company's total number of data centers worldwide to 28.
AT&T says both facilities will open in November, doubling the company's capacity in the Silicon Valley area and marking its entry into the managed hosting market in Shanghai. The new and expanded US facilities will offer all of AT&T's application performance management capabilities. The Shanghai IDC will offer these capabilities in early 2006.
AT&T also announced that it had expanded its managed hosting portfolio, introducing AT&T Server and Operating System Support Service, new virtualization capabilities and a managed utility computing platform.
The company says the enhancements will help customers manage their hosting infrastructures, enable applications to be run on a single machine and allow customers to pay for hosting resources as they use them.
"We're seeing tremendous demand for our hosting capabilities all over the world," says Mike Jenner, vice president of hosting and application management services at AT&T. "In addition to increasing our capacity and physical footprint, we're focused on providing businesses value-added managed hosting services, such as pay-per-use capacity, enabling our customers to easily and affordably manage their applications and better serve their end users."
AT&T says it will undertake SAS 70 Type I and II audits on its data centers outside the US by the end of the year. Previously, AT&T only had its US-based data centers SAS 70 certified.
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