{"id":11557,"date":"2014-10-05T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/oct\/06\/amazon-and-t-buddy-netbond-vpn-service\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T23:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T23:48:22","slug":"att-and-amazon-web-services-buddy-up-with-netbond-vpn-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/att-and-amazon-web-services-buddy-up-with-netbond-vpn-service\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T and Amazon Web Services buddy up with NetBond VPN service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture credit: Mike Mozart\/Flickr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Recent stories that have arrived at CloudTech HQ have focused on the opportunity the cloud provides for telcos, and this one’s no different: AT&T has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for AT&T NetBondSM, its network enabled cloud (NEC) solution.<\/p>\n

With NetBond, AT&T customers can utilise a VPN to connect to any cloud compute or IT service environment in AT&T’s partner ecosystem, bypassing the Internet completely. The partnership with AWS enables users to access business applications and information stored in Amazon’s cloud.<\/p>\n

Melanie Posey, IDC research vice president, described the collaboration as a “likely game changer” and added: “The addition of AWS broadens AT&T’s already expansive NetBond ecosystem and will give customers highly secure, reliable, and on-demand connections to another key public cloud service provider.”<\/p>\n

Current NetBond partners include Microsoft, Salesforce.com, VMware, IBM and Box, covering a large breadth of the cloud computing ecosystem.<\/p>\n

AT&T’s particular cloud play is an interesting one. NetBond integrates with the existing VPN, meaning customers don’t need to order more equipment; the technology avoids DDoS attacks through the private global network; and users can save up to 60% on networking costs, and increase performance by up to 50%.<\/p>\n

The overall effect is an intriguing one as telcos begin to make their behemoth moves to providing cloud services. It’s always been there in the background, of course, but a litany of recent strategic shifts can’t just be a coincidence.<\/p>\n

Last week comms provider CenturyLink announced expansion to China<\/a> – always a good sign of growth – while Ericsson recently announced it had taken a majority stake<\/a> in platform as a service (PaaS) provider Apcera, adding to its Ericsson Cloud System portfolio.<\/p>\n

Telcos see the market opportunity; they’ve already got an expansive network and customer buy-in, and if they add cloud services on top it’s got all the ingredients of being a winning proposition.<\/p>\n

For AT&T in particular, it’s been a long time coming. Back in 1993 the firm released a product called PersonaLink, which aimed to be an ‘electronic meeting place’ for people to share information and documents, and could differentiate between ‘dumb’ and ‘smart’ messages.<\/p>\n

“You can think of our meeting place as the cloud,” the video stated. Did AT&T invent the cloud more than 20 years ago, as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted<\/a> back in May? Not quite – the technology came from now defunct tech firm General Magic, whose goal was to distribute the computing load evenly between bigger and smaller devices in the network.<\/p>\n

But with a big telco network and a large partner ecosystem, AT&T might be coming good on that video’s promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture credit: Mike Mozart\/Flickr
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