Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 15, 2008 - Provider of ''on demand'' IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, is offering a new range of servers, designed to meet the needs of the enterprise market, including HP servers configured with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron.

Also included in the offering, is the Intel Xeon CPU, along with the ability to hold up to 12 hot swappable hard drives. These new packages represent a huge increase in the price-for-performance value equation for clients seeking highly expandable, leading edge computing platforms.
New server packages include the latest HP chassis, newly released AMD Barcelona and Intel Harpertown / Clovertown processors, a minimum of 4GB of RAM, and 500 GB or larger hard drives. Each chassis can currently accommodate up to 12TB of storage and 32GB of RAM.

Todd Abrams, President and COO of Layered Technologies explained, ''Layered Technologies has a history of leading the market in next-generation technology and we'll continue to seek ways to maximize performance, optimize virtualization, increase levels of utilization and enable greater energy efficiency. These new name-brand server offerings are unrivaled and give our customers greater choices and unbeatable value.''

With clients in more than 120 countries, Layered Technologies custom technology solutions allow both large and small customers to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of collocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. By partnering with Layered Technologies, companies are able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training and floor space. Layered Technologies can have a company up and running in days versus months.

Recently, it was announced that the Chicago based managed hosting company, FastServers.net, will be acquired by Layered Technologies as well. The acquisition will combine the expertise of FastServers.net in managed dedicated hosting with Layered Technologies' leading Grid and unmanaged offerings. The combination of Layered Technologies and FastServers will offer a new range of superior services significantly benefiting customers.

Layered Technologies will begin immediate integration of the two companies' operations, product development, distribution and customer support organizations to ensure a smooth transition and immediate value for customers, employees and partners. Combined, the company will serve over 6,000 clients.

Layered Technologies enables customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world's largest consultancy and integration firms.

Based in Frisco Texas, Layered Technologies, Inc. is one of the five largest global providers of on-demand hosting and utility computing solutions, providing dedicated, partially managed server hosting solutions primarily for the small and medium-sized enterprise SME market. They provide customers with the highest quality technology, infrastructure and support services that enable them to operate servers at secure Tier III/IV data centers, while saving them the capital and operating costs typically associated with purchasing and maintaining their own servers at co-location facilities. Layered Technologies servers and associated network facilities are used by customers to host a variety of Internet-enabled applications, including content and e-commerce Web sites, software as a service (''SaaS'') offerings, online multiplayer games, shared Web site hosting services, and streaming multimedia content distribution and delivery, among other applications.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.




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