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AT&T squares up to Amazon EC2

Posted by brennels on November 17, 2009

By Jo Maitland
16 Nov 2009 | SearchCloudComputing.com

“Amazon might have stolen the lead on the cloud computing market, but AT&T plans to give the online retail giant a run for its money.

This week AT&T will launch Synaptic Compute, a service that allows users to rent servers on demand in a pay-as-you-go way, with no up-front fee or termination charges. It’s a shot across the bow to EC2, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service, but is the telco serious?

The Compute as a Service offering is part of AT&T’s managed hosting business, which is shifting toward a more cloudlike model of flexible provisioning and billing as compared with its traditional, fully managed hosting services. AT&T launched Synaptic Storage in August, an on-demand storage service.”

Read the full article here on searchcloudcomputing.com


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