Great post, Bill.
This ATT deal is quite significant, in my opinion. ATT is competing hard against WCOM for the Global 2000. EMC has an alliance with Sony for highly-automated backup storage products that should help it in Japan and elsewhere. ATT has deals with BT in Europe (Concert) and with NTT and Japan
Telecom (from the purchase of the IBM Global Network).
AT&T Targets ASPs, Enterprises
(01/27/00, 11:50 a.m. ET) By Chuck Moozakis, InternetWeek
AT&T on Thursday said it is targeting ASPs and enterprises with a set of data hosting capabilities.
The carrier unveiled what it is calling its Ecosystems for ASPs initiative, offering providers infrastructure, data and application hosting, and last-mile services, according to Kathleen Earley, president of AT&T data and Internet services.
As part of the initiative, AT&T also announced partnerships with IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and storage vendor EMC -- all of which will resell AT&T's hosting capabilities as VARs.
The offering will also include two new hosting services, geared to ASPs and enterprises. The first -- intelligent content distribution -- will provide caching capabilities using technologies from Inktomi, InfoLibria, and Novell. The second, dynamic storage, will be based on enterprise-class storage products from EMC.
AT&T will offer the services from its network of data centers. The carrier now has four, but will grow that number to eight by midyear. By the end of 2002, AT&T will have 26 centers, Earley said.
The ASP program and intelligent caching is available. The storage service will be available in March.
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