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Online retailers gearing up for holiday sales. Employers with annual open enrollment for employee benefits. Game publishers running online games. These are a few of the businesses that can benefit from AT&T Synaptic Hosting^SM, a pay-for-what-you-use, utility computing service.

Synaptic Hosting is our next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses. Its utility computing features are an ideal solution for companies whose business needs are seasonal or unpredictable, or where end-user traffic spikes are a given.

As part of AT&T's $1 billion planned global network investment in 2008, the new utility computing service combines technology acquired from USinternetworking (USi) with five "super-IDCs" in the United States, Europe and Asia. We have a total of 38 IDCs in our global IP network.

The super IDCs will be located in Piscataway, N.J.; San Diego, Calif.; Annapolis, Md.; Singapore and Amsterdam; and will act as regional gateways to the AT&T network "cloud." They will support large-scale computing and applications on-demand via virtualized servers and deliver services across our IDC hosting infrastructure. Over time, additional IDCs will be added to the regional network infrastructure to deliver "enterprise-class" cloud capabilities to companies in the U.S. and abroad.

With this offer, companies will achieve greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings. The computing platform enabling Synaptic Hosting will be extended to deliver similar benefits to other services in AT&T's portfolio, including unified communication; content distribution; dynamic back-up and restore; on-demand retrieval of high-resolution images such as X-rays and CAT scans; and many other subscription-based software services.

The official Web site of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) is powered by AT&T Synaptic Hosting. Feature-rich Teamusa.org connects fans of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams with America's athletes on their journey to the Olympic Games. The site features stories on U.S. Olympians, Paralympians and Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls, athlete blogs and social networking tools.

Learn more about AT&T Synaptic Hosting.