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On-demand IT infrastructure provider Layered Technologies (www.layeredtech.com) has extended its DEFCON managed services product line to include virtual machines, giving Grid Layer virtual machine customers the same advanced services available to dedicated server clients.According to Layered Tech's announcement Thursday, the innovation is a result of the company's virtualization investments and recent acquisition of FastServers.net which has helped drive its DEFCON managed ...

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 ...

On-demand IT infrastructure provider Layered Tech (layeredtech.com) has appointed former FastServers (fastservers.net) chief information officer Terrance Bush as CIO to oversee research and development, as well as technology strategy for the organization.Layered Tech CEO Jack Finlayson said the new CIO will lend "his technology expertise and leadership experience, combined with the other new additions to our management team," he said in a statement. Other recent staff ...

After acquiring Fastservers in April of this year, hosting provider Layered Technologies (layeredtechnologies.com) announced the first tangible result of its efforts to integrate the two businesses this week.The company said Wednesday it is rolling out the DEFCON Server Management offerings brought over from Fastservers to a select group of current customers.At the time of the acquistion, Layered Tech CEO Jack Finlayson said in an interview with theWHIR that the ...

On-demand infrastructure hosting provider Layered Technologies (www.layeredtech.com) reported on Monday that it has added a range of new offerings to its selection of dedicated server hosting plans.The packages include new HP servers configured with Quad-Core AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and the option to hold up to 12 hot swappable hard drives. Layered Tech says the new machines offer a "huge increase in the price-for-performance value equation."Layered ...

This week's Web hosting news saw a variety of announcements, but there was a fairly obvious "most significant" as fast as the hosting industry was concerned, as on Monday Layered Technologies announced that it had acquired Fastservers.Net.On Monday morning the company issued an announcement saying it had acquired Fastservers, though it didn't disclose how much it had paid for the managed hosting provider. Layered Tech says it is still in the process of deciding whether ...

Research and analysis firm Tier 1 Research (t1r.com) released a new quarterly report on Tuesday revealing that the managed hosting sector has "experienced tremendous growth" of approximately 30 percent in the past 12 months, driven by a handful of different trends including virtualization, business continuity services and security technologies. In the report titled "Managed Hosting: Market Overview Spring 2008," T1R explains that despite the dipping economy in the US, there ...

Web hosting provider Layered Technologies (layeredtech.com) announced on Monday that it had acquired managed hosting provider Fastservers.net (fastservers.net) in a deal the companies closed late Friday.The companies, both private, declined to disclose the financial details of the deal, which was in the works for approximately six months.In November of 2007, theWHIR covered reports that Fastservers might be considering a sale, but very little industry speculation ...

Dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched a series of customer testimonial videos on its website. Videos on the Web have been growing in popularity since the launch of online video channels like YouTube and iTunes and more and more companies have been integrating video elements to their websites, like customer testimonials or viral marketing campaigns, if not simply to jump on the bandwagon, than in hopes of engaging, ...

Nearly 800 professionals in Web hosting and related industries gather at the beatufiul Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois today for Web hosting conference and trade show HostingCon 2007 (hostingcon.com/2007). The three-day event features 40 conference sessions covering various hosting topics, as well as three keynotes. Kicking off the keynote presentations, Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Demand Media, will deliver "Next Generation Web: What Lies Ahead For ...