AT&T, Inc. is scaling up its hosting capabilities in Japan and Asia Pacific with the opening of a second Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Tokyo. The new IDC bolsters AT&T's existing ability to offer multinational companies services that enable them to focus on their core activities, increase productivity, improve operational efficiency and lower costs. The new IDC is located in Shinagawa in central Tokyo to facilitate ease of access from anywhere in the capital.

It delivers AT&T's highly secure IT infrastructure services in a world-class facility that features a seismic isolator for earthquake protection, fire detection and suppression, robust physical security and back-up power to protect customers' mission-critical applications. The IDC provides: Flexibility to accommodate new technologies as they are introduced; Ability to extend several services to client premises or other data centres; Personalized, secure access to detailed reports about hosted infrastructure and applications to better align with customers' business planning; Network-based security services including denial of service prevention, hosted firewall, intrusion detection and anti-virus options.