AT&T, IBM will offer private network cloud computing
October 9, 2012
Grazed from The Boston Globe. Author: Kevin J. O’Brien.
AT&T and International Business Machines planned to announce Tuesday that they are teaming up to sell cloud computing services over a mutually owned, private global network to win new business customers reluctant to send sensitive data over the Internet.
The two companies said the effort would combine AT&T’s secured telecommunications network for business customers with IBM’s global network of data centers into a private system where corporate data could be processed remotely, but never travel over the Internet. International Data Corp., a research firm, forecasts that global sales of cloud computing services will more than double from $40 billion this year to $100 billion by 2016…
The cloud computing model of remote data processing, which originated in the United States, has made greater inroads in North America than in Europe, where security concerns and data-protection laws often present obstacles. The service ‘‘uses private networks rather than the public Internet, which can be vulnerable to attacks, outages, and other risks,’’ said Andy Geisse, the chief executive of AT&T Business Solutions…
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