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Permuto Selects UnitedLayer® as Complex Hosting and Managed Solution Partner

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRESS RELEASE) June 8, 2010 — UnitedLayer®, LLC, a privately held managed colocation services firm, announced today that it has been selected by Permuto (http://www.permuto.com), a leader in online performance advertising, to be its primary managed hosting partner. UnitedLayer® provides colocation and data center infrastructure services to businesses across the globe.

“Because of the real-time nature of Permuto’s e-commerce advertising solutions, UnitedLayer’s® ability to provide 100% uptime and fast, secure data transmissions made UnitedLayer® the right choice for Permuto,” says Shaukat Shamim, CEO of Permuto. “With reliable colocation and managed hosting from UnitedLayer®, we can concentrate on what we do best – relevant advertising for the most active buyers.”

Known for providing flexible and tailored hosting solutions, UnitedLayer® was selected by Permuto as a hosting partner based on UnitedLayer’s® ability to customize network configurations and the hosting company’s ability to provide 100% uptime, backed by a team of knowledgeable engineers available 24×365. In addition to the 100% uptime guarantee, Permuto’s requirements for a hosting provider included servers, firewalls, SAN storage, and solid support from hosting experts.

“Permuto pushes the limits of what a growing and innovative company expects from their hosting and IT services partner,” says Edward Buck, Director of Operations at UnitedLayer®. “We are honored to be working with Permuto in solving the challenges of providing real-time online advertising to the marketplace by implementing a hosting solution designed to meet and exceed Permuto’s growth.”

UnitedLayer® designed a network solution specifically for Permuto’s requirements of constant real time low latency data from multiple sources across the Internet. With headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area, UnitedLayer’s® main data center is recognized as one of the world’s most significant Internet facilities and peering locations and has a track record of high quality service. Permuto, based in Palo Alto, can continue its significant growth with reliable hosting provided by UnitedLayer®.

“Permuto’s Buyer Acquisition Channel brings search-like performance and return on ad spend to display advertising. The knowledge gained from every action a buyer makes online drives more relevant advertising through our channel, so the right hosting solution is critical to helping us deliver results to our clients,” says Shamim. “Since even a short period of downtime negatively affects Permuto’s desired outcome, UnitedLayer’s® constant uptime and dedication to customer satisfaction make UnitedLayer® a strong hosting and managed solutions partner for us.”

Companies that require a hosting solutions partner that can provide high quality, reliable colocation and managed hosting services hosting services, are encouraged to visit www.unitedlayer.com to learn how UnitedLayer® can provide a customized hosting solution backed by a 100% uptime guarantee.

About Permuto

Permuto is the creator of the Buyer Acquisition Channel for e-commerce, which delivers search-like performance and automation to display advertising. Through its BuyerIndex, Permuto develops knowledge of a buyer’s intent, activity and history for millions of individual products. An automated Buyer Marketplace connects merchants and shopping sites with active buyers and delivers highly-personalized, relevant, and attractive offers. The result is a channel that taps into the more than 80 percent reach of online display advertising with greatly enhanced conversions.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Permuto was founded in April 2008 by pioneers in display and search advertising and was selected as one of “The World’s Most Intriguing Startups” by BusinessWeek.

UnitedLayer®, LLC Named No. 25 on San Francisco Business Times ‘100 Fastest Growing Private Company List

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UnitedLayer®, LLC Named No. 25 on San Francisco Business Times ‘100 Fastest Growing Private Company List

SAN FRANCISCO, October 26, 2009 — The San Francisco Business Times announces UnitedLayer®, LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, as one of the top 25 fastest growing private companies in 2009.

The San Francisco based company offers managed data center solutions that allow customers to locate their IT equipment in one place where they can connect to numerous telecommunications providers and it offers dedicated and managed servers and very high speed Internet Connectivity. Today, UnitedLayer® has 30 employees and 175 customers. The company is headquartered at 200 Paul Ave. in San Francisco, where it has over 32,000 square feet of Class A conditioned data center space and it runs a second 5,000-square-foot data center in Los Angeles, as well as Internet exchanges in Palo Alto, San Jose, Los Angeles and Ashburn in Virginia.

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists. All companies had to have been headquartered in the Bay Area, privately held between 2006 and 2008, and must have had revenues of more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2006. Fast 100 and Fast 50 Companies were ranked on percentage of revenue growth from 2006 to 2008.

“We are thrilled and honored to be part of the fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area and would like to thank all of our customers” said Arman Khalili, founder and CEO, UnitedLayer®. The founder states with a smile, “I am lucky to have hired coworkers who are smarter than I am.” It is apparent that Mr. Khalili is proud of his staff; however he goes on to state that, “While, the UnitedLayer® team is crucial to the momentum of our business, our customers come first. End of story.”

This year’s recognition follows the 2008 Top 100 list where UnitedLayer® was named 82nd fastest growing Bay Area Company. “At UnitedLayer®, we attribute our growth to our most important assets namely our clients and our co-workers” said Albert Ahdoot, Director of Business Development and Marketing. Mr. Ahdoot further acknowledges that “UnitedLayer’s® success can be traced from the result of Class A services, coupled with its superior 24/7 customer support”

About Bizjournal’s San Francisco Business Times

Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. The national bizjournals site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from American City’s print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and a full menu of tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses more successfully. Characterized among the “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine, bizjournals’ sites have more than 8 million unique monthly visitors.

About UnitedLayer®, LLC.

UnitedLayer®, LLC. is a premier North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation, dedicated and managed servers in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America.

UnitedLayer® is about Power, Cooling, Packets and People.

For additional information, please visit UnitedLayer® at https://unitedlayer.com.

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Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) selects UnitedLayer® as a Colocation Partner

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Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) selects UnitedLayer® as a Colocation Partner

SAN FRANCISCO, October 19, 2009 — UnitedLayer® LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, announced today that ISC has selected UnitedLayer® as its colocation partner by signing a multi-year contract.

UnitedLayer® will provide colocation, cross connect and IP services for ISC at its flagship data center facility in San Francisco. Colocation services include physical data center floor space for cabinets, power and cooling. UnitedLayer’s® San Francisco data centers boast fully-redundant N+1 environmental control and 2N power systems.

“We are excited and honored to provide services to ISC” said UnitedLayer® founder and CEO Arman Khalili. “ISC’s teams are key contributors to the commercial grade open source software for the Internet Community. UnitedLayer® is a major supporter of open source software and will work tirelessly to provide exceptional services to our Internet Community” said Khalili.

“The customer service provided at the 200 Paul location in San Francisco has exceeded expectations. We are happy to continue our business relationship with UnitedLayer®” said Paul Vixie ISC president.

UnitedLayer®, founded in 2001, is a North American internet enabler offering a suite of colocation, Internet and managed infrastructure services.

About ISC

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation widely known for world-class Internet software engineering and network operations. ISC produces only open-source software, of which BIND and ISC DHCP are the two best-known examples. Our emphasis is on Internet core technology. Our widely-imitated Managed Open Source process ensures the quality of this software while keeping it completely open and available. ISC operates high-reliability global networks of DNS root servers (F-root) and authoritative DNS servers (SNS@ISC) both for non-profit and for commercial enterprises. ISC is also very involved in ongoing Internet protocol and standards development, particularly in the areas of DNSSEC and IPv6. ISC is supported by donations from generous sponsors, by program membership fees, and by specific fees for services. For program or donation information, please visit our website at http://www.isc.org.

About UnitedLayer®, LLC.

UnitedLayer®, LLC. is a premier North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation, dedicated and managed servers in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America.

UnitedLayer® is about Power, Cooling, Packets and People.

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UnitedLayer® Announces IPv4/IPv6 Dual Backbone & 575+ Peering Sessions

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UnitedLayer® Announces IPv4/IPv6 Dual Backbone & 575+ Peering Sessions

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, 2009 — UnitedLayer®, LLC, a privately held company and Managed Colocation Services firm, reported over 575+ peering sessions and full IPv6 including a full Multicast enabled IP Backbone.

UnitedLayer®, which maintains over 35,000 square feet of Turn-Key Datacenter (TM) space in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and Ashburn, VA, operates a carrier grade North American MPLS/IP/Multicast IP Backbone.

UnitedLayer® connections, IPv4 and IPv6, are available from 1 Mbps to 40 Gbps in the following locations;

– SF1 Located at 200 Paul Ave., San Francisco, CA (DRT facility)

– SF4 Located at Presidio Telecom, San Francisco, CA (Presidio Telecom)

– SF5 Located at 365 Main Street, San Francisco, CA (365Main Data Centers)

– PAIX Located at PAIX, Palo Alto, CA (Switch and Data)

– SJ1 Located at Equinix SV1, San Jose, CA (Equinix)

– SJ2 Located at 55 South Market, San Jose, CA (Coresite)

– LA1 Located at MMR 1 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Coresite)

– LA3 Located at Equinix LA1, Los Angeles, CA (Equinix)

– LA4 Located at 530 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA (UL Data Center)

– ASH1 Located at Equinix, Ashburn, VA (Equinix)

“UnitedLayer® has over 575+ peering sessions, our goal is to achieve 1,000 peering sessions IPv4 and IPv6 by the end of 2009 though our network expansions into Europe and Asia” said Aaron Hughes, Chief Network Architect of UnitedLayer®.

“UnitedLayer® has achieved 575+ peering sessions while yielding annual growth rate of 500% with a 55% traffic peering ratio. These statics are a phenomenal achievement for a Tier II IP backbone.” said Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer®.

About UnitedLayer®.

“UnitedLayer® has achieved 575+ peering sessions while yielding annual growth rate of 500% with a 55% traffic peering ratio. These statics are a phenomenal achievement for a Tier II IP backbone.” said Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer®.

UnitedLayer® is about Power, Cooling, Packets and People.

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UnitedLayer®, Inc. Reports Robust Earnings in Q2 2009, Will Continue to Hire

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UnitedLayer®, Inc. Reports Robust Earnings in Q2 2009, Will Continue to Hire

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2009 — UnitedLayer®, Inc. (https://unitedlayer.com) a privately held Colocation and Managed Infrastructure Services firm today reported a profitable Q2/2009, despite the broader negative economic climate. Today’s disclosure is voluntary.

UnitedLayer®, which maintains over 35,000 square feet of Turn-Key Datacenter (TM) space in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and Ashburn, Va., reported a sales increase of 15% over its last quarter, while EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) increased by 55% over last quarter — a result of increased sales and previous cost reductions.

“We have experienced our second consecutive profitable quarter for the year and maintain a positive outlook for the remainder of 2009. We remain on target to have a profitable and cash flow positive 2009. Increasing demand has caused additional utilization of our facilities,” said Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer®. “With the continued rise in demand for scalable, secure and reliable Internet infrastructure services, we have seen tremendous growth this past year across our service offerings.”

“We have a unique opportunity to attract solid talent during these tough times, and have increased our head count in Engineering, Operations, Sales and Marketing. We plan on hiring for the remainder of 2009, our hardest job is to select quality candidates from the volume of job applicants,” said Khalili.

Founded in 2001, UnitedLayer® offers a suite of IP Transport, Colocation, and Managed Solutions. It operates a nationwide MPLS/IP network consisting of three data centers and ten routing/peering nodes.

About UnitedLayer®, Inc.

UnitedLayer®, Inc. is a premier North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation and managed infrastructure services in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America. UnitedLayer’s® mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to make smarter decisions with the infrastructure needed to start, build, scale and optimize their online presence.

For additional information, please visit UnitedLayer® at https://unitedlayer.com.

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