AT&T Celebrates Grand Opening of Orlando Internet Data Center - Brief Article

ISP Business, March, 2001

AT&T and Orlando's high-tech community celebrated the grand opening of AT&T's Internet data center (IDC) in Central Florida, which is gaining a powerful reputation as a center for high-tech businesses. The facility, which officially opened for business on December 28, 2000, provides the Web hosting services that are essential for enterprise customers and dot-coms. The 50,000 square foot facility is part of the continuing expansion of AT&T's network of state-of-the-art IDCs designed to support complex Web hosting services.

The Orlando center has been taking orders for business since late last year. Orlando-area IDC customers will have access to AT&T's full portfolio of managed hosting services, including application management, database management, hardware and operating system management, intelligent content distribution service, high availability data and computing services, network and bandwidth management, storage services, managed security and firewall services, and professional services. Custom solutions that involve QoS, end-user performance management, and application monitoring will be available through AT&T's professional services arm, AT&T Solutions.

AT&T is continuing on its path to grow to two million square feet of Web hosting capacity and to add eight new centers in 2001, bringing the total number of AT&T IDCs to 21 by year-end. Two other AT&T Internet data centers, located in the Washington, DC and Dallas metropolitan areas, also recently opened for business. This plan is part of AT&T's global hosting program with partners BT and Concert to build a network of 44 Internet data centers in 16 countries by 2003.