AT&T has new, integrated recovery, availability and reliability services to help businesses and government agencies meet more comprehensive risk mitigation plans required by recently enacted regulatory and legislative requirements.
The new services include AT&T StorageConnect Service, which supports networked remote replication, backup and recovery needs, and AT&T Direct Control for hosting customers with Advanced Monitoring Service. The services help clients design, deploy, manage and evolve business continuity solutions across their networks and information technology environments, including networks, systems and applications.
Addressing networked remote replication, backup and recovery needs, AT&T StorageConnect Service delivers a fully managed, flexible, multi-location storage transport, enabling clients to balance risk, cost and performance. Using AT&T StorageConnect Service, clients can extend their remote replication, backup and multi-vendor storage area network solutions between their premises and/or AT&T Internet Data Centers, over any distance, virtually any bandwidth and storage protocol. AT&T StorageConnect Service offers bandwidth choices from 10 megabits to 1 gigabit per second, and supports the Fiber Channel, Enterprise System Connection (ESCON) and/or Fiber Connectivity (FICON) storage network protocols.
AT&T Direct Control lets clients to set thresholds for warning and alarm notification, view and receive real-time alarm notification, and access business-oriented dashboard views with drill down capability, indicating a near real time status of all of clients’ monitored elements. It also enables clients to remotely perform system administration functions such as server reboots, upload software through File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and view and retrieve log files, improving performance of their hosted solutions in real time.