Incubation Center

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If you're an independent software vendor (ISV) seeking to deliver your product on demand, but aren't sure how to get there, AT&T's TopLineISV^SM Incubation Center can help. Take advantage of our sandbox environment at no additional charge for four months when you enroll in our one-day Technical Design Workshop.

The sandbox, built on the AT&T Synaptic Infrastructure™ for utility computing, lets you refine your product's technical architecture and ready it for push-button delivery. You'll work side by side with AT&T's hands-on experts, who keep your business objectives in mind while helping your technical and application personnel explore critical architecture requirements.

For more details about the Technical Design Workshop and to learn how the sandbox works, click on the "Description" tab above.

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Technical Design Workshop Leads to Blueprint

AT&T launches your participation in the TopLineISV Incubation Center with an eight-hour Technical Design Workshop that results in a “blueprint” of your infrastructure and service-readiness requirements.

In this hands-on workshop you benefit from the insights we’ve gained over 10 years of helping companies deliver software-as-a-service offerings. Keeping your business objectives in mind, we work with your technical and application personnel to explore critical architecture requirements. We also look at technology scalability factors and requirements, such as:

• Computing platform and processing power
• Storage management and utilization
• Security
• Network connectivity and user access
• Virtualization readiness
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Application middleware
• Data management and protection technologies
• Data integration models and technologies
• Network services
• Audits and compliance
• Custom monitoring
• End-client service integration

Within a week of the workshop, you receive a set of infrastructure and service readiness requirements - the blueprint for your infrastructure in the Incubation Center.

How the Sandbox Works

Using the blueprint documentation from your Technical Design Workshop, you’ll work alongside AT&T’s technical team to build your solution in the TopLineISV Incubation Center sandbox and refine your architecture for optimal delivery.

During the four-month incubation period you’ll develop capacity planning models, run performance and compatibility tests and carry out other activities to ready your product for market.

At the end of four months, AT&T will compare the refined solution with the original blueprint and document changes to give you all the details of your new, optimized architecture. From there, your application architecture is ready for push-button provisioning on our utility computing platform, the AT&T Synaptic Infrastructure^SM.

The sandbox includes full computing power, network, storage, virtualization technologies and other tools you need to address performance scaling and operational readiness. A named customer care representative will be your key point of contact.

Learn about our TopLineISV Incubation Center Partners

Sun Microsystems

The Sun Solaris On Demand Program, which jumpstarts the on-demand delivery process, is working closely with the TopLineISV Incubation Center. Sun Microsystems is a leading maker of UNIX-based servers as well as software, systems, service, and microelectronics.

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• Production-quality sandbox environment at no charge for up to four months with a paid one-day Technical Design Workshop
• Blueprint that details infrastructure and service-readiness requirements
• Documentation of refinements made during the sandbox phase - describing the new, optimized architecture
• Named customer care representative as a key point of contact
• Full support services - including the operating system, security and database
• 99.5% service level availability
• Optional services related to performance testing, application development, etc.

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• Minimize costs
• Reduce risks
• Reach the market faster
• Test and refine your product
• Develop a plan to jumpstart your efforts
• Avoid technical pitfalls
• Follow best practices
• Enhance your competitiveness