July 15, 2009 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
Layered Technologies (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has announced that it has been named to the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)” published July 2, 2009, and written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin.
According to the Gartner report which evaluated 16 companies overall, “The Web hosting market is evolving rapidly and converging with cloud system infrastructure services, creating new opportunities for cost savings and business agility.” Gartner based its 2009 evaluation on five use cases for hosting: self-managed hosting, mainstream-managed hosting, highly complex managed hosting, global solutions portfolio, and enterprise applications hosting.
“There are hundreds of hosting companies, so Layered Tech is particularly pleased to be named to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant because we believe that industry recognition like this validates the strategies we have been implementing during the past year,” said Layered Tech CEO Jack Finlayson. “Layered Tech is committed to delivering a broad range of managed solutions to our customers. As a technology innovator, we continue to enhance our solution set while broadening our roadmap to include automated solutions that support our customers’ evolving needs.”
Layered Tech offerings introduced during the past year include:
•Launch of Astro, Layered Tech’s proprietary platform for rapid server deployment
•The deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Astro for rapid server deployments broadening the existing portfolio which includes Linux and Unix operating systems
•Expanding Astro offerings to include Virtual Firewall Solutions from Fortinet
•Expansion of its DEFCON managed services to include virtual machines
