November 8, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Grid and utility computing solutions provider 3Tera (3tera.com) and Web hosting provider Layered Technologies (layeredtech.com) announced on Tuesday that Layered Technologies will leverage 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system to offer grid-based private servers and Web hosting services to its customers.
The grid-based solution will provide Layered Technologies' customers with a range of new services including fast and simplified resource provisioning, instant high availability and on-demand scalability. Customers will no longer have to worry about the quantity and type of servers they are running.
"3Tera's grid technology is positioned to radically change today's Web hosting market and Layered Technologies is among the first hosting providers to leverage these benefits to offer private grid servers and new Web hosting services," says Todd Abrams, president and COO of Layered Technologies. "Using the AppLogic platform enables us to offer our customers new critical functionality such as rapid provisioning, snapshots, universal high availability and scalability for their online solutions in a cost-effective way."
AppLogic is a multi-purpose grid operating system designed to run any Web application on the commodity servers Web hosts already have in place. AppLogic's packages Web applications and the infrastructure required to deliver them into easy-to-manage entities, enabling it to offer numerous services from the same grid.
