On-demand notes centers took another step toward becoming commonplace today, as AT&T announced the global launch of its Synaptic Hosting service.

Synaptic Hosting offers what the company called its “next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, protection and storage for businesses.” Customers will be able to purchase large-scale computing and applications on demand, through virtualized servers. Services to the user will be provided through AT&T’s IDCs, or Net details centers.

Paying Only for Capacity Used

Ron Spears,

group president of AT&T Global Business Services, said that Synaptic Hosting “is driving the convergence of networking and hosting services in ways that are allowing companies to deliver end-user applications whenever and wherever they are needed — while paying only for the capacity used.”

Such cloud-based, on-demand computing is becoming a regular offering of many major companies, including IBM, Amazon and Google. A target for such services are companies whose business has spikes, […]

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