Data Storage Features and Benefits

Hosted Storage Benefits

• Direct access to some of the world’s fastest, most reliable, high speed, expansive, and scalable IP networks
• Industry-leading, scalable storage systems
• High-speed, reliable, highly-available networks
• System installation, provisioning, reporting, and around-the-clock support
• Remote, secure location data centers

Datacenter Features and Benefits

A World-Class Infrastructure

With more than 200 Data Centers in 23 countries, we provide extraordinary flexibility – anything from efficient colocation to fully managed web services and e-commerce – all backed by our stringent SLA.

Smart Centers for Managed Services

World-class facilities deliver management services that provide security, availability, and performance for our Enterprise Hosting customers.

Data Center Colocation Solutions

Our centers deliver connectivity and dedicated infrastructure for customers who want the flexibility to administer and access their equipment. Fully embedded in our network, these centers also provide customers the option of managed services such as:

• Managed Routers
• Managed Firewalls
• Onsite technical support services
• Server monitoring
• Business continuity solutions
• Managed storage
• Data backup and restoration

Security is paramount

• High levels of physical security at data centers
• Network security including intrusion protection
• Options for a layered security approach with firewalls, VPNs, virus screening and protection, security consultation and assessments, and more

SAS 70 Certification

We are committed to ensuring appropriate controls over our processes to help our colocation and managed hosting customer’s needs. To this end, our Premium Data centers and our worldwide Smart Centers complete SAS 70 Type II examinations annually.

The highest speeds available over IP

• With more than 1Tbps aggregated backbone capacity in North America, our network carries data traffic at speeds up to 10 Gbps in the U.S. and 2.5 Gbps in Europe.

High availability

• Redundant network connections
• Support services ranging from load balancing to enhanced monitoring, stand-by databases, and dynamic failover

Extraordinary flexibility

• Your IT staff or Verizon Business' hosting professionals
• Your equipment or ours
• Technology independent
• Vendor independent

Service Provider Highlight: AT&T

Just as a company's dependence on data grows, so too does its volume of data from gigabytes to terabytes and even to petabytes. Many corporations today are overwhelmed with the spiraling costs of managing their data and the challenge of ensuring that mission-critical information is adequately stored and managed to provide near 100 percent availability.

Our award-winning team is ready to help you create a fully-managed, secure and cost-effective data storage network which helps to ensure business continuity for mission-critical operations.

AT&T offers a variety of Managed Storage Services based on an EMC Infrastructure of software and hardware enabling customers to do one stop shopping.

AT&T Managed Storage Services provide you with the flexibility of simple tape backup, full data mirroring, to business continuity and recovery. Regardless of the capability option, your business benefits from a fully-managed, secure and cost-effective EMC -based data storage network design.

AT&T and EMC answer today's information challenges with a variety of options of availability, reliability, and security backed by aggressive service level agreements.

Benefits:

• Availability - help to ensure secure, uninterrupted access to critical information, our services enable you to dynamically back up and help protect critical data from loss or corruption
• Powerful EMC-based storage products - world class in performance and dependability
• Scalability - storage services can easily scale to provide additional storage and network infrastructure so that you can respond quickly to unpredictable storage demand
• Customer-tailored Service Level Agreements (SLA's) - Availability and performance are backed by aggressive, measurable SLA's tailored to your specific requirements.
• Reliability - Each of our data centers is protected from intrusion and failure by multi-layered security, fail-safe redundancy, diversity measures and rapid response recovery measures.
• Visibility - AT&T's award -winning managed services portal on BusinessDirectsm provides access to real-time performance reporting on the health of your applications, a business view of your network, server and application topology, and electronic customer servicing tools
• One Company Convenience - You enjoy one-stop shopping for integrated storage networking and data storage solutions and have one point of responsibility - AT&T - which manages an end-to-end data storage environment, including external vendors.