AT&T says its offering includes a variety of networked storage services, including off-site tape backup and recovery and managed SAN services with remote data replication and load balancing between two sites.
Specifically, the company claims its data storage services can help enterprises comply with, for example, regulations for storing email mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and requirements for the use and transfer of electronic patient records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
In May, AT&T launched Ultravailable Storage Services, which is designed for disaster recovery and manages the network transport needed for remote data replication, backup, and recovery (see AT&T Puts Hands on SANs).
Overall, AT&T says its managed hosting services more than doubled last year. The carrier recently opened new data centers in Hong Kong, France, and Australia, bringing its total number of centers to 21 across three continents, including 13 centers in the U.S.
Sanders claims AT&T's data centers in New York and New Jersey "didn't miss a beat" during the power outage last month that affected large parts of eastern North America. "Not a single one of our customers had a second of downtime," he says.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
