AT&T Intros Synaptic Compute as a Service

AT&T has announced AT&T (News - Alert) Synaptic Compute as a Service, a global cloud-based service designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity.

 

According to company officials, AT&T’s Synaptic Compute as a Service uses technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) and provides companies with a self-service approach for using IT solutions that are delivered by the company over its network cloud.

 

AT&T's Synaptic portfolio is part of the company’s umbrella strategy to drive innovation across enterprise networking and computing environments through hybrid public and private cloud platforms.

 

“As companies increasingly move to cloud-based environments, AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service provides a much-needed choice for IT executives who worry about over-building or under-investing in the capacity needed to handle their users' traffic demands,” said Roman Pacewicz, senior vice president of Strategy and Application Services at AT&T Business Solutions.

 

Using this offering, customers can address demands for variable computing processing power and expand capacity to scale with their business requirements. Also, AT&T delivers computing processing capacity.

 

Company officials said that the computing processing capacity can scale to meet a business’s immediate demand, along with management of the network, server, hardware and storage.

 

With AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, customers can program their application to routinely expand capacity during a block of days each month to handle their firm’s book closing.

 

Additionally, transportation firms can increase computing power daily for processing driver schedules, route changes and other logistics. Also, it enables companies to program the service to respond to spikes in Web traffic from holiday sales or events, sports programs, short-term campaigns, emergencies and more.

 

Company officials said that IT architects can also use the service to build environments for safely testing new applications, or installing system upgrades without impacting the entire enterprise.

 

AT&T said it is also working with Sun to use the Sun Cloud Open Cloud Platform, Sun Cloud APIs, cloud reference architecture, and design expertise to create an environment that will make it easy for developers to build and deploy value-added services.