Microsoft hooks up with AT&T, gazes into YOUR data center

Microsoft and AT&T have announced a strategic alliance that should let punters shift workloads from their data center into AT&T's cloud and then into Windows Azure. The unnamed service is due to launch in 2014, and was announced by Microsoft in a fluffy blog post on Wednesday. The technology lets people "access Windows Azure …

[amanfromMars 1]

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The offering is very similar to a deal AT&T inked with IBM in late 2012 to offer users a way of hooking their VPNs into AT&T, which in turn linked with IBM's SmartCloud. It also operates a VMware vCloud-based "Synaptic Compute as a Service" offerings as well. All these products, including the forthcoming Azure tech, use AT&T's "NetBond" technology to let customers shuttle compute and network resources into and out of the cloud services.

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[Paul Crawford]

No thanks

Outside the USA and going to put data in the hands of AT&T & MS, both who seemed happy to turn over everything to the NSA?

Yes, I know they probably have no legal choice in the matter, but was PRISM not a paid-for arrangement to make the process nicer and maybe even profitable?

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