October 10, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Layered Technologies (http://www.layeredtech.com/) is leveraging the latest version of 3Tera's AppLogic to offer the latest in Grid-based Private Servers and web hosting services, it was announced yesterday.
"We pride ourselves in offering the latest and greatest technology to our clients to enable them to compete in their industry and grow their business," explained Layered Technologies’ CEO, Mr. Michael Platner. "AppLogic 2.1 allows for greater scalability and control of the infrastructure, assuring users of their ability to grow."
According to the company, the AppLogic grid operating system is the “first commercial platform designed specifically to enable true utility computing”. The system “converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code”. The latest release of the AppLogic grid operating system (version 2.1) includes application monitoring and support for multiple CPUs per appliance.
Layered Technologies has also announced new pricing for its Virtual Private Server (VPS) options which will “no longer be tied to an individual hardware server” but spread across many nodes, allowing users to take advantage of grid-cluster computing. The VPS runs in a Virtual Private Datacenter managed by Layered Technologies, allowing for universal high availability and the ability to increase CPU, memory and storage as needed. The company’s VPS Silver Layer offers 40 GB of disk space, 256 MB RAM allocation, 1500 GB bandwidth transfer, and four IP addresses. The company’s VPS Gold Layer option offers 80 GB of disk space, 512 MB RAM allocation, 2500 GB bandwidth transfer, and four IP addresses.
Layered Technologies, Inc. is “one of the five largest global providers of on-demand hosting and utility computing solutions”. The company provides dedicated and partially managed server hosting solutions primarily for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market.
