Acts as a cost effective alternative for enterprises building new facilities or leasing colocation space.

Layered Technologies, a provider of dedicated servers, grids and on-demand utility computing solutions yesterday announced the availability of the industry's largest virtual private data center, the Super Grid.

Controlled with just a browser, the VPDC comprises of 443 CPUs, 920GB RAM and 47 terabytes of storage using Intel platforms coupled with 3tera's Applogic software. The VPDC is a cost-effective alternative for enterprises considering building out new facilities or leasing colocation space.

Layered Technologies' custom technology solutions allow both large and small customers to deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of colocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. By partnering with Layered Technologies, companies can achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership, labor reduction, training and floor space. VPDC can easily scale from 10 servers to more than 100 servers without significant performance issues, says the company.

"Our testing results make it clear to enterprise customers that they don't have to, or need to, invest in a datacenter full of hard steel technologies," says Jeremy Suo-Anttila, CTO of Layered Technologies. "With the VPDC, users get complete control of their own private grid. Using our visual interface, they set up and assemble disposable virtual infrastructure, including firewalls, load balancers, Web servers, database servers, NAS boxes, visually, by pointing and clicking. Users can also add more resources to their grid at any time."