(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Layered Technologies (www.layeredtech.com) announced on Tuesday it has become the first web host to give enterprise customers the option of transferring their Windows OS environment to an AppLogic-based cloud computing solution.
Layered Tech will use 3Tera’s (www.3tera.com)grid operating system AppLogic 2.4 to enable customers to run their Windows OS platform in a virtual computing environment, providing customers with a scalable, more affordable alternative to hosting on dedicated physical servers.
Previously, 3Tera only offered AppLogic on Linux and Unix platforms. Last month, the company began offering beta availability of AppLogic 2.4 with Microsoft Windows Server functionality, which it incorporated in all infrastructure aspects of the grid platform, including storage, networking and load balancing.
3Tera’s hosting partners, such as Layered Tech, use AppLogic to offer clouds and utility computing services for transactional and streaming applications on grids of commodity servers in their data centers.
“By bringing Windows OS onto The Grid Layer, we are literally creating a market that didn’t have a place before,” says Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech. “To achieve virtualization’s high-availability, scalability and replication in a physical server environment would cost customers millions, yet with Layered Tech their cost is a tiny fraction of that.”
To coincide with its new Windows OS/virtualization offering, Layered Tech has launched an Early Adopter Program that enables existing customers to transfer some of their Windows OS servers to Layered Tech’s grid.
The program will give these customers a change to evaluate the cost saving opportunities, as well as operational and performance improvements that come with Layered Tech’s virtualization solutions.
Customers of Layered Tech’s Grid Layer, including those operating on Windows OS, can now access DEFCON managed services, enabling enterprises to scale the level of data center and server management that best fits their individual needs.
