Companies to provide 100 Grid-Servers to support Woopra, the real-time Web analytics platform.

Layered Technologies, Inc., a provider of 'on demand' IT infrastructure, and 3Tera, Inc., a of grid computing technology and utility computing services for Web applications, today announced support for Woopra, the real-time Web analytics platform. The companies state that it will provide 100 grid-based servers in order to assist Woopra as it experiences a huge market demand prior to official launch.

Companies explained that Woopra provides real-time stats delivered via a client-server application, and includes features such as the ability to identify and chat real time with visitors to the monitored site. Further it claims that the beta version of Woopra was quietly unveiled to a select audience of 200 at WordCamp Dallas, but news rapidly spread to over 2 million as buzz began to grow.

"We are extremely pleased that Layered Technologies has stepped up to pledge the infrastructure necessary for us to meet the growing demand for Woopra," said Elie Khoury, CIO of Woopra. "We are also grateful for all of the public feedback and support we have been given in the past 48 hours. We vow to work as quickly as possible to make Woopra available to as many as 100,000 Web sites within the next few weeks."

"We are excited about the launch of Woopra and the fact that we will be hosting it on The Grid," said Todd Abrams, COO and President of Layered Technologies. "With such high demand, we are working closely with Woopra to ensure that all of Layered Technologies' clients can gain access to the application as quickly as possible."

"The instant growth of Woopra is a perfect example of how grid solutions provide new capabilities for growth," said Peter Nickolov, President and CTO of 3Tera. "Scaling an online application, such as Woopra, can be enormously challenging. Being able to quickly deploy and operate on a highly available and scalable utility computing platform offers a unique business solution. Partnering with Layered Technologies has allowed us to deliver true utility computing solutions and help hundreds of companies scale their application with the growing demand."