AT&T Unveils Network-Based 'On Demand' Computing for Companies of All Sizes

'AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service' enables businesses to address their
dynamic needs

DALLAS, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* today announced AT&T Synaptic
Compute as a Service(SM), its latest innovative global cloud-based service,
designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable
computing capacity.

Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as
a Service provides companies with a self-service approach for using IT
solutions that are reliably delivered by AT&T over its highly-secure
world-class network cloud.

Customers can use the service to quickly address demands for variable
computing processing power and expand capacity to scale with their business
requirements. In turn, AT&T delivers computing processing capacity that can
scale to meet a business's immediate demand, along with management of the
network, server, hardware and storage.

"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&T Business Solutions.

"AT&T is enabling customers to extend their internal IT environments to the
cloud by using their unique strengths in global network capabilities to offer
cloud services that are compatible with customers' private VMware
environments," said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer,
VMware. "We are excited to contribute our technology to enable this and to
work with AT&T in our VMware vCloud(TM) initiative that is focused on
integrating and connecting private and public clouds, using the VMware
vSphere(TM) virtualization platform and the VMware vCloud API."

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

"Sun is committed to helping our customers and partners deliver public and
private clouds that are cost effective, open and interoperable," said Dave
Douglas, senior vice president, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. "AT&T's
network and operational excellence coupled with Sun's Open Cloud Platform and
Sun Cloud APIs delivers a revolutionary cloud offering. We're excited to be
working with AT&T to bring an enterprise-class, highly scalable offering that
delivers choice and flexibility to market."

AT&T will introduce the service in the fourth quarter of 2009. The service
will be deployed in the U.S. and will be accessible by customers connecting to
the Web anywhere. In time, AT&T plans to add the service to select global
IDCs to meet customer demand internationally.

Other service features:

-- A Web portal to order, provision and manage server capacity, or to
program the APIs.
-- The convenience to pay only for the capacity used and receive a
monthly
bill that can, if desired, be paid with a credit card.
-- Multiple storage options including disk capacity for each virtual
server's operating system and space to share files between virtual
servers, as well as the ability to connect to AT&T Synaptic Storage as
a
Service.
-- Round-the-clock monitoring of the Synaptic Compute as a Service
platform
by AT&T support teams.
-- A service level agreement that covers availability of the platform
that
runs the customer's virtual servers.

-- No upfront fees, no long-term obligations and no termination fees.

AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service is the latest addition to the AT&T family
of Synaptic Services to be delivered in little more than a year. AT&T's
Synaptic portfolio is part of its umbrella strategy to drive innovation across
enterprise networking and computing environments through hybrid public and
private cloud platforms. The AT&T network is the lynchpin for integrating
these technologies, and delivering enterprise class network-based security and
application management capabilities. In addition, AT&T believes its
"infrastructure as a service" platform over time will accelerate the
deployment of applications generated by developers working within the AT&T
network cloud.

By unifying -- also known as "federating" -- with the AT&T service, customers
will be able to seamlessly manage all their IT resources across the enterprise
and develop applications all from one location and move application workloads
where and when they are needed. Customers will be able to handle their
business needs all in the same way whether they will be running internally in
their own datacenter or in AT&T's cloud.

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. Transportation firms can increase computing
power daily for processing driver schedules, route changes and other
logistics. Companies can program the service to respond to spikes in Web
traffic from holiday sales or events, sports programs, short-term campaigns,
emergencies and more. Also, IT architects can use the service to build
environments for safely testing new applications, or installing system
upgrades without impacting the entire enterprise.

For more information on AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service go to
http://www.synaptic.att.com.

*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.

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