By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 1, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Utility hosting services provider Layered Technologies (layeredtech.com) announced on Tuesday its recently completed network upgrades further strengthen its ability to meet the needs of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms, while positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its rapid growth.
The company has made many network investments, including expanding its number of carriers so that customers have a more effective combination of Internet pathways. Level 3 Communications, Global Crossing and Sprint provide Layered Tech's customers with strong overseas access, while SAVVIS, Internap and Time Warner provide US Internet access. Layered Tech also enhanced access between its data centers with 10-gigabit circuits, while it also upgraded its hardware to include new Cisco switches in VSS configuration. These upgrades and improvements have resulted in providing faster, more reliable access for Layered Tech customers."Our rapidly expanding customer base is fueling Layered Tech's network investments whose benefits are particularly attractive to enterprise customers looking for advanced virtualization technologies," says Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech. "The network upgrade has been a major initiative since our acquisition of FastServers.Net earlier this year. We will continue to evolve our network to meet our customers' needs, but we already know that Layered Tech offers the services, capacity, security and redundancy that other data centers and dedicated hosting providers just can't match."
Layered Tech was able to deploy 150 servers for the customer in less than a week at its Chicago data center, which was best-suited to handle the significant increase because of its enterprise-grade security and redundancy.From its upgraded data centers, Layered Tech can now offer its DEFCON managed services to customers of Layered Tech's Grid Layer virtual machines. Previously, the DEFCON services, which mitigate challenges commonly associated with the operations of hosted infrastructure, were available only to dedicated-server customer.The company also expanded its international presence by adding data centers in Tokyo and Amsterdam, providing overseas customers important local points of presence. It is this overseas expansion that provides Layered Tech with the global reach to meet the hosting needs of the largest multinational companies.Customers will continue to benefit from Layered Tech's ongoing network investments, says Layered Tech CTO Jeremy Suo-Anttila.Layered Technologies says it provides managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/grid computing and Web services. In July, Layered Technologies chief marketing officer John Pozadzides discussed his then-upcoming HostingCon 2008 presentation, "Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining."
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