August 8, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Telco AT&T has moved further into web hosting territory through its new Synaptic Hosting service, it was reported recently. The company’s Cloud Computing service provides additional server capacity when required and is aimed at corporate customers who pay for resources on an ‘as needed’ basis, charged for the average peak CPU utilization. Resources for up to double that average are continually available to users through the company’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.
"Anybody that has any type of dynamic need in their environment, this is where they can leverage the scale that AT&T represents," AT&T's VP of Product Development for Hosting and Application Services, Mr. Jim Paterson was quoted as saying recently.
Similar to managed hosting, Synaptic Hosting is provided as a utility to offer flexible pricing. Windows Server 2003 and 2008 runs alongside Red Hat Linux 4.0 and 5.0. Support for Novell SUSE Linux will be provided shortly. According to the company, it is able to cater for 80% of all current applications. AT&T is expecting its service will interest companies whose online presence generates ongoing spikes or is subject to seasonal traffic.
Mr. Paterson was further quoted as saying that AT&T is in a unique position as far as utility computing is concerned, as its service is a direct response to customer demand. "They love the network, the network extensibility," he is reported as saying. "So they have some things they want to do with the network, but also want to use our data centers and leverage our scale. They're very focused on latency, reliability, and security, and we can provide it to them."
