The new enterprise-class cloud service combines technologies from the company and VMware.

AT&T, a telecommunications provider, yesterday announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. The new enterprise-class cloud service combines technologies from the company and VMware.

The company articulates that like its other cloud offers, this new cloud capability is embedded directly into its network. This means compute and storage services can be scaled, managed, routed and delivered to business customers, down to virtually any fixed or mobile device, quickly and flexibly, on demand, with enterprise-grade security and performance. The service allows VMware's more than 350,000 customers to extend their private clouds across and into the company's network-based cloud using its VPN. The benefits of this 'virtual private cloud' include the flexibility and cost efficiencies of using private and public cloud systems interchangeably and strategically.

It mentions that the service allows users to rapidly provision and scale compute resources and easily and flexibly shift workloads between their private clouds and the company's network-based cloud. It also supports bursting, data center extensions, disaster recovery, and mobile application development and deployment. The offer is a new version of AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service. The company has achieved certification according to VMware's rigorous standards for its vCloud Datacenter Service program which was created to ensure globally consistent enterprise-class cloud computing infrastructure services. It is available immediately in the U.S. with global availability expected by year-end 2012.

The company states that the new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service signals its most recent advance in the execution of its strategy to deliver cloud services that meet the needs of a wide variety of users including large and medium enterprises, developers, and internet-centric businesses. This new service is complemented by a series of cloud offers announced by the company in the last 90 days which includes AT&T Unified Communications Services, AT&T Cloud Architect and AT&T Platform as a Service. Its portfolio of cloud services also includes AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, and AT&T Synaptic Hosting.

"Our new cloud offer with VMware can help customers simplify the way they orchestrate their cloud resources between private and public clouds, allowing them to have the best of both worlds," said John Potter, VP, As a Service Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions.

"AT&T's participation in the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services program creates a new cloud offer for our customers that harnesses the security, performance and reliability of AT&T's network-based cloud with the industry-leading VMware vCloud platform that is the standard data center environment for our enterprise customers," said Dan Chu, Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware.

"We see the combination of AT&T's VPN-based cloud service with VMware's virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies as an optimum pairing that will speed our ability to shift computing workloads between private and public clouds efficiently and effectively," said Stephen deRham, Sr. VP of R&D, Concur Technologies, Inc.