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To the West Coast and Beyond!

Published on November 5, 2009 in Hosting Industry, Layered Technologies, LT News and Uncategorized. Closed
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Layered Tech’s facility investments expand our global presence and increase connectivity

Recently, we expanded our data center portfolio while significantly increasing our footprint and Internap connectivity at our core facilities.  These investments further strengthen our ability to provide flexible solutions and highly reliable managed hosting services that meet even the most complex enterprise customer requirements.

We added a new data center in Santa Clara, Calif., to meet the rapidly growing demand from Silicon Valley customers.  This new location expands our presence and also adds another level of geographic redundancy for customers interested in a West Coast location.  Since establishing the facility this year, we’ve already added another 10 Gb of Internap connectivity, bringing total Santa Clara bandwidth to 20 Gb, as well as transport supplied by other providers.

In addition to our new West Coast facility and its upgrades, we’ve strategically expanded our core data centers to rack even more servers and address customers’ growing needs.  We doubled the footprint in the Databank Dallas facility and nearly tripled the footprint in the Coresite Chicago facility.  Our expanded Coresite footprint not only meets the local demand, but also addresses the growing number of national and international companies that want a Chicago presence and are attracted by the data center’s downtown location.

We also added an additional 10 Gb of Internap bandwidth to each of our core data centers, located in Dallas, Chicago and Cedar Falls, Iowa.  While we use a diverse mix of providers for industry-leading quality connectivity, Internap now provides 70 Gb of connectivity to Layered Tech data centers.  Our Internap relationship helps ensure that customers will get the same high level of service, connectivity and flexibility in each of our data centers, even if they choose to move from one Layered Tech facility to another.

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Layered Tech Named to Inc. 5000

Published on August 19, 2009 in Hosting Industry, Layered Technologies, LT News, PR Bites and Uncategorized. Closed
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We are pleased to announce that Layered Tech ranked No. 622 on the 2009 Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies by Inc. magazine.

Inc. magazine ranked companies according to percentage of revenue growth from 2005 through 2008.  To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent as of Dec. 31, 2008.  Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million.

We earned a spot in the top 12 percent because of our three-year growth rate of 441 percent.  We also are excited to rank No. 22 on the DFW list and No. 81 on the IT services industry list.  We’ve evolved from an emerging dedicated hosting company to a recognized Web hosting provider whose scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and a wide array of Internet-enabled applications.  While we measure our success by serving our customers’ evolving needs, this recognition is a testament to our strong market position.  Our Inc. 5000 company profile is available here.

Inc. shared some other interesting facts:

  • Texas had the second highest number of Inc. 5000 companies with 393; California led the list with 612 companies.
  • IT Service companies dominated this year’s list with 658 making the cut.
  • Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year, with a median three-year growth rate of 126 percent.
  • The Inc. 5000 are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding, making the list one of the best examples of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000 can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/index.html.

Layered Tech is named to the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech List, which ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in North Texas

Published on July 29, 2009 in Layered Technologies, LT News and PR Bites. Closed
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Layered Tech is excited to share that it has been named to the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas.  The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth during five-year or one-year periods.

North Texas is one of the nation’s technology epicenters, and Layered Tech was listed among powerhouses such as AT&T and emerging leaders like MetroPCS.  As our CEO Jack Finlayson commented in our July 29 news release, “Layered Tech is pleased to be mentioned alongside other DFW-area technology providers and to be recognized for the technology innovation and growth that our team has worked so hard to achieve.”

The Tech Titans Fast Tech listing recognizes technology companies that have experienced significant revenue growth from 2004 to 2008.  This year, 63 nominations were received, and Layered Tech met the requirements along with 37 other finalists.  Our double-digit growth rate is driven by our ability to meet customers’ needs by continually evolving, enhancing and broadening our solution sets with an emphasis on automated solutions that create operational and cost efficiencies for our customers and Layered Tech.

While we measure our performance by contributing to our customers’ success, industry recognition like the Tech Titans Fast Tech Award reflects our strong market position.  As a winner in the five-year growth category, we are eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada.

In addition to financial growth, to qualify for the ranking, companies must own proprietary technology such as our automated Astro solution that dramatically accelerates the availability and provisioning of servers for customers and channel partners alike.

The ranking of the 2009 five-year and one-year lists will be announced at the annual Tech Titans/Fast Tech Awards Gala Event on Aug. 28, 2009 at the Renaissance Hotel Dallas-Richardson in Richardson, Texas.  More information about the event is available at www.metroplextbc.org/techtitans.

Todd Abrams – Web Hosting with Performance and Trust

Published on July 24, 2009 in Hosting Industry, Layered Technologies, LT News and PR Bites. Closed
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Performance and trust are critical issues for every customer, and at Layered Tech, we take these very seriously whenever we launch new services and solutions.  Our customers expect immediate value from Layered Tech, and it’s in our DNA to deliver.

Layered Tech’s president Todd Abrams goes in-depth about our rapid deployment platform, Astro, in an interview with Cliff Boodoosingh at TopHosts.com, which posted today on the media outlet’s Web site.  Check out the Q&A interview here.

Our customers look to us to deliver a knowledgeable balance of responsible innovation and rock-solid Web hosting reliability.  With the cloud computing and virtualization revolution well under way, Layered Tech is committed to supporting our customers as they transition and adopt these new innovative solutions.  In the interview, Todd describes how we listen to our customers and incorporate their feedback and needs into the next evolution of our offerings so they can reduce costs while freeing up internal resources to focus on their core business.

It all comes down to performance and trust, and at Layered Tech, we continue to deliver that and more to our customers every day.

Is Colocation Right for Your Business?

Published on July 22, 2009 in Colocation, Hosting Industry, Industry Expert, Infrastructure and Layered Technologies. Closed
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By Sam Bowley

A colocation facility is a type of communal datacenter.  Many businesses keep their own server and network infrastructure there, pooling their resources for better telecommunications with decreased costs.

How do you know if colocation is right for your business?  Consider these factors:

Network Availability – One of the primary benefits of colocation is uptime.  Uptime is ensured due to a series of redundant failsafes most businesses cannot afford to implement themselves.  For example, quality colocation facilities will have redundant utility power, air conditioning, generators, routers, and staff.  Should something catastrophic happen, these redundant systems would engage and the end consumers’ server and equipment would continue to function as if nothing happened.

Power – Most offices get their power from a local power company.  If they house many servers internally they might have a “backup” generator suitable for up to four hours.  A colocation datacenter will have access to multiple power sources or multiple grids.  Good colocation facilities will also have Prime Source generators and facility-wide uninterruptible power systems (UPS).  For an office to set up a power system comparable to a colocation facility would require the investment of several million dollars.

Cooling – Network equipment is not designed for exposure to long stretches of heat.  Colocation facilities have redundant cooling systems in place capable of keeping servers and equipment cool enough to run optimally.  Typical business offices are not built with air conditioning units strong enough to keep up with large server rooms.  Nor do they typically have redundant systems in place in case of failure or maintenance.

On-Site Help – Many of the best colocation facilities have staff on hand 24 x 7.  Much of this staff is highly qualified server and network developers.  They know how to help replacing failing hardware, upgrade servers, or work that most businesses can’t or don’t want to do.  Some colocation providers offer more managed services beyond just hardware replacement such as software patches and troubleshooting.  Many business will have an IT staff, but not usually 24 hours a day nor trained in all the different functions a colocation provider will have.

Network Speed – When a business begins to build their own internal infrastructure, generally they will get a bandwidth capacity they believe fills their need (their pipe).  For small businesses it might be a T3 (45 Megabits per second) or an OC3 for medium to large businesses (155 Mbps).  Usually there wouldn’t be redundancy for these pipes either.  Quality colocation facilities will have multiple pipes of substantially larger bandwidth capacity, say OC192 (10,000 Mbps).  For customers in a colocation facility like this, it means their websites and applications can operate at much higher speeds.  To put in an OC3 connection is tremendously expensive already, let alone have multiple larger pipes.

The Bottom Line
From a cost / benefit standpoint, colocation makes sense for many businesses.  The key is to look at your current infrastructure and consider what your needs will be in 6 months, 12 months, and 24 months.  Investing in colocation now provides you the flexibility to grow into those needs without huge capital requirements.