April 3, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Utility hosting services provider Layered Technologies (layeredtech.com) and utility computing platform developer 3Tera (3tera.com) announced on Wednesday that they will provide 100 grid-based servers to support real-time Web analytics platform Woopra (woopra.com).
According to the press release, Woopra has been experiencing huge market demand prior to its official launch. The Web analytics platform provides real-time stats delivered via a revolutionary client-server application, and includes unique features such as the ability to identify and chat real time with visitors to the monitored site.
The beta version of Woopra was quietly unveiled last week to a select audience of 200 at WordCamp Dallas, a two-day event hosted by blogging software tool provider WordPress and sponsored by Layered Technologies. But news of what the application could do rapidly spread to over 2 million people as buzz began to grow, says Layered Technologies.
"The instant growth of Woopra is a perfect example of how grid solutions provide new capabilities for growth," says Peter Nickolov, president and chief technology officer of 3Tera. "Scaling an online application, such as Woopra, can be enormously challenging. Being able to quickly deploy and operate on a highly available and scalable utility computing platform offers a unique business solution."
Woopra's chief information officer, Elie Khoury, says that the public feedback it has received since WordCamp has been phenomenal and the company is aggressively working to make its application available to as many as 100,000 websites within the next few weeks.
Layered Technologies says that with 3Tera's AppLogic platform, it will be able to provide Woopra with grid computing solutions, enabling the company to package its entire application into a single, self-contained entity, but also give it the flexibility to scale back from a fraction of a CPU to hundreds of machines without any code modification.
"We are excited about the launch of Woopra and the fact that we will be hosting it on The Grid," says Todd Abrams, chief operating officer and president of Layered Technologies. "With such high demand, we are working closely with Woopra to ensure that all of Layered Technologies' clients can gain access to the application as quickly as possible."
An official launch date for the application has yet to be determined.
