AT&T Business Solutions fourth quarter was highlighted by acquisitions, cloud computing offers and innovative mobile applications
By Gabe Perna
AT&T Business Solutions, the business unit within AT&T’s offering for business customers, announced its fourth quarter highlights. The quarter was full of activity for AT&T Business Solutions, with acquisitions, cloud computing offers and new innovative mobile apps abound.
The entire quarter was highlighted by the acquisition of VeriSign's global security consulting business. Acquiring this business will combine Versign’s experience in comprehensive risk assessment with AT&T's suite of network-based cybersecurity services. It’ll enable AT&T to more quickly develop and bring to market capabilities to address the evolving security needs of businesses around the world.
In the quarter, AT&T also acquired Centennial Communications Corp. This acquisition means greater coverage in Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In terms of Cloud Computing, the business unit further expanded its cloud computing portfolio with the announcement in November of AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service(SM). This expansion allows for global businesses to use simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity in which customers pay only for the amounts they use. It provides companies with a self-service approach for using IT solutions without worrying about over-building or under-investing in the capacity needed to handle their traffic demands.
Another highlight of AT&T Business Solutions’ fourth quarter was the dual launch between AT&T and Avaya of a dedicated customer sales center to serve the enterprise needs of their joint small and medium business customers.
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