J.M. Huber Consolidates Hosting Needs With AT&T

J.M. Huber Consolidates Hosting Needs With AT&T

EDISON, N.J., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- J.M. Huber Corp. has selected AT&T to provide a managed hosting solution that merges operations from two company-owned data centers into a single AT&T Internet Data Center (IDC). Huber is a family-owned corporation that provides products and services in three sectors: engineered materials, natural resources and technology-based services.

Under terms of the $2.5 million, three-year agreement, AT&T will host and provide around-the-clock monitoring of Huber's critical online applications at AT&T's Atlanta-area IDC. The AT&T solution supports Huber's application networking requirements and frees the company's data center personnel to focus on applications development, instead of data center maintenance and management.

"After touring one of AT&T's IDCs, we were convinced AT&T offered the best environmentally redundant conditions and the most highly trained personnel to work on our behalf," said Vincent Solano, Huber's chief information officer. "We decided AT&T had the expertise and experience to manage our data center applications better and more cost-effectively than we could do it ourselves."

AT&T owns and operates 26 IDCs around the world.

Huber can monitor the performance of its network and applications through the secure AT&T customer portal, AT&T BusinessDirect(R), which provides operational efficiencies including around-the-clock online access to real-time reports on network performance and direct connection to trouble management systems.

About J.M. Huber

J.M. Huber Corporation is a diversified, multinational supplier of engineered materials, natural resources and technology-based services to customers spanning many industries, from paper and energy to plastics and construction. One of the largest family-owned companies in America, Huber is built on a tradition of strong customer relationships, high ethical standards and technology leadership.

About AT&T

For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE "T") has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services.

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