Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) has recently added new AT&T Internet data centers in Toronto, Canada and a third center serving the metropolitan New York City market. The facilities are part of its yearlong expansion of its global data center footprint, which includes the addition of more space at six existing centers in the US and around the world.

The third New York City area data center, located in Piscataway, New Jersey, officially opened this month, while the new Toronto facility will begin taking customer orders by the end of 2007. These new facilities will bring the total number of AT&T global Internet data centers to 38, and with the combined expansions elsewhere, will extend AT&T’s total global footprint of hosting space to more than 2.1 million square feet.

In the US, AT&T is expanding the space of its data centers in Mesa, Arizona, Irvine, California and Ashburn, Virginia. Globally, AT&T has added to its data centers in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. These global expansions are part of the company's $750 million investment in its international infrastructure and are scheduled to be completed by January 2008, and AT&T expects to announce other managed service enhancements and data center expansions during the coming year as well.

"We continue to invest in growing our business to support customers and to meet the red-hot demands of customers — large and small — for managed hosting and application services," says Steve Caniano, AT&T VP of hosting and application services. "The addition of two new North American facilities and expansions of other data centers around the world are needed to support all of our customers that turn to AT&T for integrated hosting and network solutions and allow them to focus on running their business."