AT&T, a telecommunications provider, yesterday announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. The new enterprise-class cloud service combines technologies from the company and VMware.
The company articulates that like its other cloud offers, this new cloud capability is embedded directly into its network. This means compute and storage services can be scaled, managed, routed and delivered to business customers, down to virtually any fixed or mobile device, quickly and flexibly, on demand, with enterprise-grade security and performance. The service allows VMware’s more than 350,000 customers to extend their private clouds across and into the company’s network-based cloud using its VPN. The benefits of this ‘virtual private cloud’ include the flexibility and cost efficiencies of using private and public cloud systems interchangeably and strategically.
It mentions that the service allows users to rapidly provision and scale compute resources and easily and flexibly shift workloads between their private clouds and the company’s network-based cloud. It also supports bursting, data center extensions, disaster recovery, and mobile application development and deployment. The offer is a new version of AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service. The company has achieved certification according to VMware’s rigorous standards for its vCloud Datacenter Service program which was created to ensure globally consistent enterprise-class cloud computing infrastructure services. It is available immediately in the U.S. with global availability expected by year-end 2012.