"[The likes of] AT&T and Verizon are full service telco carriers in addition to offering data center services," says Posey. "With an AT&T or a Verizon, you can have your hosting and your storage in one of their data centers, and things to deal with your corporate networks," adds the analyst, explaining that these could also encompass IP-VPNs and Voice over IP applications.
AT&T, like Savvis, though, could not confirm the specific cost of its managed storage offering.
Service providers and hardware giants are not the only ones eyeing managed storage. Other vendors, such as online backup and recovery specialist EVault, are also making inroads into this space. (See EVault Delivers Growth, EVault Intros Products, and EVault Offers Discovery Insight.)
A spokesman for EVault told Byte and Switch that the firm has seen a "substantial increase" in its managed storage service business since launching its first offering last year. Unlike Savvis, which uses its own storage kit for hosting, EVault gives customers the option of using its storage or providing their own equipment. The backup specialist can manage this hardware either at its own data center, or at the customer's facility. Pricing for the managed services offering starts at $1,300 per month, based on the amount of data managed.
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