Company to use AppLogic 2.4 to enable customers to run their Windows OS platform in a virtual computing environment.

Layered Technologies, Inc., a provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, today announced that it is the first hosting company to give enterprise customers the option of transferring their Microsoft Windows operating system environment to an AppLogic-based cloud computing solution. The company states that it will use 3Tera's AppLogic 2.4 to enable customers to run their Windows OS platform in a virtual computing environment, which means customers will have the same availability as their dedicated physical servers but with more scalability.

"In the current economic conditions where everyone is looking to spend less but still achieve their business objectives and profitability, Layered Tech is presenting customers with a particularly compelling opportunity to significantly cut costs by consolidating their Windows OS server operations onto our virtualization platform," said Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech. "By bringing Windows OS onto The Grid Layer, we are literally creating a market that didn't have a place before. To achieve virtualization's high-availability, scalability and replication in a physical server environment would cost customers millions, yet with Layered Tech their cost is a tiny fraction of that."