AT&T launched cloud-based storage designed specifically to meet the robust security requirements of U.S. federal government agencies.
AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service for Government is a multi-tenant, community cloud offer. It has the same features, policies, capabilities, and EMC Atmos technology as AT&T’s commercial cloud storage offer but adds further security measures including:
- Storage towers that are physically separated from other users’ towers in the data center;
- Separate logical cloud for government data; government customer data will not co-exist with commercial data;
- A separate cloud portal partition for government agencies;
- All government agency customers and their authorized users are assigned RSA hard token for 2-Factor Authentication.
“Federal agencies want the mobility, collaboration, information sharing and efficiency that cloud offers but they can’t afford to adopt cloud solutions that sacrifice performance, reliability and above all, security,” said Kay Kapoor, President, AT&T Government Solutions. “Our new STaaS for Government offer delivers the key attributes Federal buyers require and allows them to move to the cloud with ease and confidence.”
