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To the West Coast and Beyond!

Published on November 5, 2009 in Hosting Industry, LT News, Layered Technologies and Uncategorized. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

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, LT News, Layered Technologies, PR Bites and Uncategorized. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

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.

Latest News: Layered Technologies Named to Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services

Published on July 14, 2009 in LT News, PR Bites and Uncategorized. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

by Tom Eagle

Last week, we learned of some very exciting news from the industry analyst front – Layered Tech was one of 16 companies named in the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)” published July 2, 2009, and written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin.

According to the Gartner report, “The Web hosting market is evolving rapidly and converging with cloud system infrastructure services, creating new opportunities for cost savings and business agility.”  Gartner based its 2009 evaluation on five use cases for hosting: self-managed hosting, mainstream-managed hosting, highly complex managed hosting, global solutions portfolio, and enterprise applications hosting.

As our CEO Jack Finlayson indicated in our July 14 news release, “There are hundreds of hosting companies, so Layered Tech is particularly pleased to be named to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant because we believe that industry recognition like this validates the strategies we have been implementing during the past year.  Layered Tech is committed to delivering a broad range of managed solutions to our customers.  As a technology innovator, we continue to enhance our solution set while broadening our roadmap to include automated solutions that support our customers’ evolving needs.”

During the past year, Layered Tech has introduced a number of offerings, including the launch of Astro (our proprietary platform for rapid server deployment), the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Astro which broadens our existing portfolio of Linux and Unix operating systems, the expansion of Astro offerings to include Virtual Firewall Solutions from Fortinet, and the expansion of our DEFCON managed services to include virtual machines.

We are thrilled about this news and hope you all share not only our enthusiasm, but also our dedication to continuously providing valuable managed and hosting solutions and services to a wide variety of customers worldwide.  More information is available at www.Gartner.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission.  The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period.  It depicts Gartner’s analysis on how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.  Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant.  The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.  Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Now Available Through Layered Tech’s Astro Rapid Deployment Platform

Published on July 1, 2009 in LT News, PR Bites, Product Updates, Technology Bits and Uncategorized. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

Layered Tech customers can select from a full range of Windows- and Linux-based servers to best fit their business needs.     Find out more

By Tom Eagle

Layered Tech announced today that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available for rapid server deployments via Astro, our proprietary automated Web hosting platform.  With this addition, we offer a full range of operating systems, including high-performance and secure Linux and Unix systems, with servers that can be provisioned almost instantaneously.

“By adding Windows Server 2008 to our rapid deployment server offerings, our customers can stay current with the latest offerings from Microsoft, explore new features with the .NET product offering and leverage a rich Web server environment that is more robust and feature-driven than previous versions of IIS,” said Layered Tech COO and CIO Terrance Bush.

With Windows Server 2008, customers can develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within their organizations.

Through Astro, Layered Tech customers can quickly customize their rapid deployment servers with a wide range of options, including IIS, Plesk control panel, virtual firewall solutions and DefCon bundled managed services.  Astro displays server inventory in real-time and enables near instantaneous server provisioning so that within 90 minutes, our customers can easily configure their server, complete the purchase and have the server available for use.

“We continue to evaluate the latest and greatest server technologies to determine what will best meet our customers’ needs and support their business goals,” Bush continued.  “We’re excited to make Windows Server 2008 available within our rapid deployment service offering, provide our customers a wide variety of robust operating system options, and deliver powerful servers in less than two hours after selection.”

The Window Server 2008 editions currently available via Astro include:

  • Data Center Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications on medium and large servers;
  • Standard Edition: the most robust Windows Server operating system to date, due to its increased reliability, flexibility and control;
  • Enterprise Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications.

Through Encompass, Layered Tech’s centralized client management portal, customers can manage their account, request support, reboot servers and access other critical information such as bandwidth graphs, alerts and notifications.  Customers can access Astro and buy servers directly through our Web site at www.LayeredTech.com, and with an open API created by Layered Tech, partners can display inventory and coordinate sales in real-time from their own Web sites.

Astro was launched in January 2009 in Layered Tech’s DataBank data center located in Dallas and the rapid deployment platform continues to broaden so customers can take advantage of additional services within minutes, not hours or days.  Layered Tech plans to expand Astro into its Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Chicago facilities in the near future.

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75% Referral Fees with LT's Affiliate Program

Published on March 2, 2009 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .
Posted by Tom Eagle

As of March 1st, Layered Tech announced it will now be offering 75% in referral fees to their Affiliate partners through their Hosting Affiliate Program >>

With the economic pressures facing businesses today, everyone is looking for ways to increase profits. So Layered Tech has stepped up to the plate by boosting earning potential. Whether it’s via a link on one -or many- of your web sites, your blog, non-spam emails – even old school referrals via phone, you get paid for helping your contacts make the intelligent choice in hosting: Layered Tech.

AND with Layered Tech’s grid offerings (averaging around $2,500 per month) Affiliates can earn up to $1875 on first month’s MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) on new customers.

PLUS with the trend in companies outsourcing their IT infrastructure during tough economic times to stay competitive – even to just stay in business, all conditions are aligned to make significant earnings.

Learn more about Layered Tech’s Hosting Affiliate Program >>