Synaptic Compute News

Network operator ATT announced the release of Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, an enterprise-class cloud service combining technologies from ATT’s virtual private networking (VPN) specialists and cloud infrastructure software industry provider VMware.

The Synaptic Compute as a Service platform allows VMware’s customers to extend their private clouds across and into ATT’s network-based cloud using ATT’s VPN service. Users can provision and scale compute resources and shift workloads between their private clouds and ATT’s network-based cloud.

Like ATT’s other cloud offers, the cloud capability is embedded directly into the company’s network, which allows compute and storage services to be scaled, managed, routed and delivered to a fixed or mobile device. It is available immediately in the U.S., with global availability expected by year-end 2012, according to an ATT statement.

Concur, a cloud provider of integrated travel and expense-management solutions, uses Synaptic Compute as a Service for its disaster recovery capabilities. The company, which has virtualized almost 80 percent of its IT environment over the last three years with VMware cloud infrastructure software, said it expects Synaptic Compute as a Service to allow it rapid access to compute capability in the event of an outage in its primary network.

“We see the combination of ATT’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, senior vice president of research and development at Concur Technologies.

The platform also supports bursting, data center extensions, disaster recovery, and mobile application development and deployment. “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, vice president of As a Service Solutions for ATT Business Solutions.

The offer is a new version of Synaptic Compute as a Service. ATT has achieved certification according to VMware’s standards for its vCloud Datacenter Service program, which was created to ensure globally consistent cloud computing infrastructure services. ATT’s portfolio of cloud services also includes Synaptic Storage as a Service and Synaptic Hosting.

“ATT’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 ATT’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 of cloud infrastructure and services at VMware.

Synaptic Compute as a Service also signals ATT’s most recent advance in the execution of its strategy to deliver cloud services that meet the needs of a variety of users, including large and medium enterprises, developers and Internet-centric businesses. This service is complemented by a series of cloud offers announced by the company over the last three months, including unified communications services, Cloud Architect and platform as a service.

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ATT has just announced ATT Synaptic Compute, where it will function as a service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. This is an enterprise-class cloud service that will deliver the best of both worlds, merging technologies from virtual private networking (VPN) industry leader ATT as well as cloud infrastructure software industry leader VMware. Similar to the other cloud offers from ATT, the Virtual Private Cloud’s capability is embedded straight into its network, delivering the ability to scale, manage, route and deliver compute and storage services to business customers, regardless of whether they are using a desktop or are toting a mobile device like smartphones and tablets.

With ATT’s Virtual Private Cloud, it will enable over 350,000 customers of VMware to extend their private clouds across and into ATT’s network-based cloud thanks to ATT’s VPN. Among the benefits that you can reap from this “virtual private cloud” would be flexibility and cost efficiencies as they rely on private and public cloud systems in an interchangeable and strategic manner. [Press Release]

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ATT has just announced ATT Synaptic Compute, where it will function as a service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. This is an enterprise-class cloud service that will deliver the best of both worlds, merging technologies from virtual private networking (VPN) industry leader ATT as well as cloud infrastructure software industry leader VMware. Similar to the other cloud offers from ATT, the Virtual Private Cloud’s capability is embedded straight into its network, delivering the ability to scale, manage, route and deliver compute and storage services to business customers, regardless of whether they are using a desktop or are toting a mobile device like smartphones and tablets.

With ATT’s Virtual Private Cloud, it will enable over 350,000 customers of VMware to extend their private clouds across and into ATT’s network-based cloud thanks to ATT’s VPN. Among the benefits that you can reap from this “virtual private cloud” would be flexibility and cost efficiencies as they rely on private and public cloud systems in an interchangeable and strategic manner. [Press Release]

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There aren’t a lot of companies scrambling for the top of the hardware mountain, but the companies that use server hardware seem to grow like weeds. Cloud startups have been popping up all over the place, and there are plenty of established companies looking to expand their presence. Who will win in the long term? If history is any guide, whoever makes the best use of scale — and pairs that scale with the most accessible options — will win the day.

Which cloud companies offer their wares utility-style, whether bare-bones fashion or on top of a platform? Let’s look at the biggest, best, and brightest competitors in this cloudy arena.

Infrastructure supremacy
It’s impossible to discuss cloud infrastructure providers — whose digital wares come closest to resembling bare machines — without discussing Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN  ) . Its Elastic Compute Cloud is the cloud infrastructure gold standard. Besides ranking among the top supercomputers in the world, the service (a critical part of Amazon Web Services) has attracted 60,000 customers, which include major banks, pharmaceutical companies, and other large businesses. For big companies that need only the occasional burst of intense computation, renting a supercomputer makes good business sense.

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX  ) also boasts a major presence in infrastructure computing through its Cloud Servers service. Though known more for its hosting options (as the name might imply), Rackspace was operating almost 80,000 servers by the end of 2011′s third quarter, and its infrastructure provisions are similar to Amazon’s. Rackspace doesn’t focus on infrastructure because it believes that “naked” cloud computing is largely commoditized. That might be true, but most smaller companies can’t afford even 1,000 servers, let alone 80,000. Scale could keep Rackspace’s service profitable for some time.

Several other companies have a presence in utility computing, but none matches up to Amazon’s scale. Verizon bought Terremark early in 2011 to move into the utility computing space. ATT is also involved in utility computing through Synaptic Compute as a Service. Both companies are ideal cloud players thanks to the server requirements demanded of mobile carriers, but neither matches Amazon or Rackspace for scale. IBM also offers utility computing but seems more focused on its platform and software options. VMWare (NYSE: VMW  ) has taken a leadership role in private cloud infrastructure and has the Fool IT department’s seal of approval.

A platform to stand on
Infrastructure computing is great for wide-ranging projects, but some developers prefer the familiarity of a platform. Platforms are better for tightly defined projects, and some cloud-computing companies might use their own platforms to provide software as well. Microsoft and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM  ) both work this way, though developers have more freedom on Microsoft’s Azure than on Force.com, the Salesforce platform.

Microsoft has been acting more like Amazon by offering infrastructure-style options within Azure, but the framework persists. Microsoft’s .NET language is a key component of the Azure experience, which can be limiting to programmers who aren’t well versed, or who don’t consider .NET the best way to solve a given problem. Force.com is rather like programming for dummies, offering object-oriented development in which most of the objects are already programmed in.

Just about every cloud infrastructure provider offers platform services as well. Some are more popular than others. Amazon will probably never be primarily known for its platform services, just as Google will probably never become the go-to utility computing company. The search giant focuses its cloud offerings on software, making a platform solution ideal.

Digital storage lockers
It’s not likely you’ll find a company offering cloud services without some form of storage. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service has been growing exponentially, and it might field half a million file requests per second during peak times. VMWare doesn’t have much in the way of storage, but it’s largely owned by storage giant EMC (NYSE: EMC  ) , which continues to post record-breaking quarters on strong cloud storage demand.

Tale of the tape
How do all these companies compare? Let’s take a quick look at those most identified with the cloud (sorry, telecoms).

Sources: Yahoo! Finance and YCharts.

These numbers don’t tell the whole picture, but it’s interesting to note that the most highly valued company sports the slimmest profit margin. This list isn’t exhaustive, but the most popular cloud infrastructures and cloud platforms are well represented. Although VMWare and EMC are costlier than yesterday’s tech titans, they’re growing rapidly and have solid profit margins. That makes them worth keeping an eye on, in my view.

If you’re looking for another way to play the cloud-computing boom, The Motley Fool has a free report you have to see. It details everything you need to know about one company quietly cashing in on the flood of data created by a shift to the cloud. The companies buying cloud computing need this important service, making this stock a great opportunity for savvy investors. Pick up your copy of this report free of charge while it lasts.

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There aren’t a lot of companies scrambling for the top of the hardware mountain, but the companies that use server hardware seem to grow like weeds. Cloud startups have been popping up all over the place, and there are plenty of established companies looking to expand their presence. Who will win in the long term? If history is any guide, whoever makes the best use of scale — and pairs that scale with the most accessible options — will win the day.

Which cloud companies offer their wares utility-style, whether bare-bones fashion or on top of a platform? Let’s look at the biggest, best, and brightest competitors in this cloudy arena.

Infrastructure supremacy
It’s impossible to discuss cloud infrastructure providers — whose digital wares come closest to resembling bare machines — without discussing Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN  ) . Its Elastic Compute Cloud is the cloud infrastructure gold standard. Besides ranking among the top supercomputers in the world, the service (a critical part of Amazon Web Services) has attracted 60,000 customers, which include major banks, pharmaceutical companies, and other large businesses. For big companies that need only the occasional burst of intense computation, renting a supercomputer makes good business sense.

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX  ) also boasts a major presence in infrastructure computing through its Cloud Servers service. Though known more for its hosting options (as the name might imply), Rackspace was operating almost 80,000 servers by the end of 2011′s third quarter, and its infrastructure provisions are similar to Amazon’s. Rackspace doesn’t focus on infrastructure because it believes that “naked” cloud computing is largely commoditized. That might be true, but most smaller companies can’t afford even 1,000 servers, let alone 80,000. Scale could keep Rackspace’s service profitable for some time.

Several other companies have a presence in utility computing, but none matches up to Amazon’s scale. Verizon bought Terremark early in 2011 to move into the utility computing space. ATT is also involved in utility computing through Synaptic Compute as a Service. Both companies are ideal cloud players thanks to the server requirements demanded of mobile carriers, but neither matches Amazon or Rackspace for scale. IBM also offers utility computing but seems more focused on its platform and software options. VMWare (NYSE: VMW  ) has taken a leadership role in private cloud infrastructure and has the Fool IT department’s seal of approval.

A platform to stand on
Infrastructure computing is great for wide-ranging projects, but some developers prefer the familiarity of a platform. Platforms are better for tightly defined projects, and some cloud-computing companies might use their own platforms to provide software as well. Microsoft and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM  ) both work this way, though developers have more freedom on Microsoft’s Azure than on Force.com, the Salesforce platform.

Microsoft has been acting more like Amazon by offering infrastructure-style options within Azure, but the framework persists. Microsoft’s .NET language is a key component of the Azure experience, which can be limiting to programmers who aren’t well versed, or who don’t consider .NET the best way to solve a given problem. Force.com is rather like programming for dummies, offering object-oriented development in which most of the objects are already programmed in.

Just about every cloud infrastructure provider offers platform services as well. Some are more popular than others. Amazon will probably never be primarily known for its platform services, just as Google will probably never become the go-to utility computing company. The search giant focuses its cloud offerings on software, making a platform solution ideal.

Digital storage lockers
It’s not likely you’ll find a company offering cloud services without some form of storage. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service has been growing exponentially, and it might field half a million file requests per second during peak times. VMWare doesn’t have much in the way of storage, but it’s largely owned by storage giant EMC (NYSE: EMC  ) , which continues to post record-breaking quarters on strong cloud storage demand.

Tale of the tape
How do all these companies compare? Let’s take a quick look at those most identified with the cloud (sorry, telecoms).

Sources: Yahoo! Finance and YCharts.

These numbers don’t tell the whole picture, but it’s interesting to note that the most highly valued company sports the slimmest profit margin. This list isn’t exhaustive, but the most popular cloud infrastructures and cloud platforms are well represented. Although VMWare and EMC are costlier than yesterday’s tech titans, they’re growing rapidly and have solid profit margins. That makes them worth keeping an eye on, in my view.

If you’re looking for another way to play the cloud-computing boom, The Motley Fool has a free report you have to see. It details everything you need to know about one company quietly cashing in on the flood of data created by a shift to the cloud. The companies buying cloud computing need this important service, making this stock a great opportunity for savvy investors. Pick up your copy of this report free of charge while it lasts.

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