AT&T Positioned by Analyst Firm as a Leader in Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure...

AT&T Positioned by Analyst Firm as a Leader in Web Hosting and Cloud
Infrastructure Services

DALLAS, July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* today announced that it was
positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's 2009 Magic Quadrant for Web
Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand) Report(1).

In the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On
Demand) Report, Gartner evaluated AT&T's ability to execute and completeness
of vision.

With 38 global Internet data centers (IDCs) in 10 countries, AT&T is the
industry's largest network-based provider of managed hosting and
infrastructure services. In August 2008, AT&T announced AT&T Synaptic Hosting,
its next generation, utility-based platform that creates a virtual IT
infrastructure where business customers can receive computing processing,
services and support instantaneously and at scale.

AT&T also recently announced AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, its first
pure on-demand cloud computing offer which provides enterprise-class storage
service that lets customers use the AT&T network cloud to store, distribute
and retrieve data as needed to meet their business requirements. The service
automatically scales storage capacity up or down as needed, and users pay only
for the amount they use.

"In my opinion, AT&T's position in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner is a clear
validation of AT&T's broad vision for cloud computing, as well as the ability
to serve our customers worldwide with advanced managed services offerings and
Internet data center services," said Roman Pacewicz, senior vice president,
Strategy and Application Services, AT&T Business Solutions.

AT&T Hosting and Application Services provides a variety of hosted
infrastructure, managed services and managed applications capabilities that
support the IT operations of customers ranging from small and midsize
businesses up to the largest global corporations. Customer applications
enabled by AT&T include corporate Web sites, e-commerce, digital content
delivery, multiplayer online gaming, collaborative intranets and extranets,
data backup and recovery, enterprise resource planning and more.

For more information on AT&T Web hosting and cloud computing services, go to
www.att.com/hosting and www.att.com/synaptic.

(1) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System
Infrastructure Services (On Demand) by L. Leong, T. Chamberlin, 7/2/09

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and
affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.
Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose.

About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its
subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of
AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array
of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a
leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services.
AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless
phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services
under the AT&T U-verse(SM) and AT&T |DIRECTV(SM) brands. The company's suite
of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in
the world. In domestic markets, AT&T's Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM
organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and
advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications
industry on FORTUNE(R) magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies.

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SOURCE AT&T Inc.

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