Reliable Hosting selects UnitedLayer® as its Primary Colocation Partner

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Reliable Hosting selects UnitedLayer® as its Primary Colocation Partner

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2009 — UnitedLayer®, LLC., a privately held Colocation and Managed Infrastructure Services firm, announced today that Black Oak Computers, Inc. (DBA ReliableHosting.com) has selected UnitedLayer® as its primary colocation partner by signing a $1.25 million dollar three-year contract.

With today’s agreement, UnitedLayer® will provide a depth of colocation services for Black Oak Computers at its flagship 200 Paul data center facility in San Francisco. Colocation services include physical data center floor space for cabinets, power and cooling. UnitedLayer’s® 200 Paul data centers boast fully-redundant N+1 environmental control and power generation systems.

“Our close working relationship with Reliable Hosting has developed throughout the years, and we’re excited and honored to provide colocation services on an even greater scope and scale than previously before. Black Oak Computers focuses on service, support, and quality, and this partnership is an important step forward,” said UnitedLayer® founder and CEO Arman Khalili.

ReliableHosting.com was founded in 1994 as a computer system integrator. The company today manages over 1,000 servers and focuses on meeting high-bandwidth hosting needs.

“For more than fifteen years, Reliable Hosting has seen the strategic importance of partnering with world-class suppliers and service providers. By engaging UnitedLayer® to meet our colocation needs, we will be able to deliver more stable, scalable, and secure hosting services to our clients,” said Ken Mirell, GM of Reliable Hosting. “The multi-year span of our initial agreement with UnitedLayer® is a testament to our commitment to long-term supplier relationships.”

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.

UnitedLayer® Names Edward Buck, Director of System Architecture

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UnitedLayer® Names Edward Buck, Director of System Architecture

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2009 — UnitedLayer®, Inc. (https://unitedlayer.com) a privately held Colocation and Managed Infrastructure Services firm, announced today the addition of industry-veteran Edward Buck as director of system architecture. Buck’s executive responsibility includes designing, deploying and managing all systems at the company.

Prior to joining UnitedLayer® today, Buck served as founder and CEO of Aptimon, the developer of a next-generation management platform for systems management, monitoring and patch management.

Before launching Aptimon, Buck served as vice president of managed services at UnitedLayer®. His original tenure at UnitedLayer® was the result of UnitedLayer’s® acquisition of ASPextra in 2006, which Buck co-founded .ASPextra was a provider of scalable, managed hosting solutions. In building ASPextra, Buck created a homegrown network and services delivery infrastructure, comprising multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving customers in the US, Europe and Asia.

Buck has also previously served as director of business development as Nehanet, a company providing on-demand CRM solutions to component manufacturers around the world.

He also served as senior manager at Oracle, where his responsibilities included corporate business development, technology acquisitions, new business development and strategic alliances. While serving at Oracle, Buck was deeply involved in the technical evaluation, acquisition and implementation of Internet and e-commerce technology business deals that shaped much of how the Internet evolved in its early years.

“Edward Buck is an enormous asset to the UnitedLayer® team. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Edward brings a mix of business acumen and technical competence to all of his pursuits. He embodies the culture and values upon which UnitedLayer® is built,” said founder and CEO Arman Khalili. “We are thrilled that Edward decided to come back to UnitedLayer®.”

Buck is a regular contributor to a number of open source projects and is the creator and maintainer of the OpenOffice Forum and LinuxSelfhelp.com. Edward received his B.A. from Pomona College.

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

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.

Why location is important when choosing a Data Center?

Why location is important when choosing a Data Center?

Why location is important when choosing a Data Center?

Why location is important when choosing a Data Center?

By: Chad M. Cunningham

Why do businesses opt for a Colocation data center?

Around the world, businesses are adopting digital transformation strategies to create a better customer experience and improved efficiency. In order to cope with the resulting rapid increase of data and bandwidth requirements from various digital technologies, more and more businesses- across all industries- are shifting data centers outside their organization, unlocking benefits such as infrastructure flexibility, better disaster recovery, improved security, ease of access to public cloud operators and an overall total lower cost.

Which Colocation partner should I choose?

With the ever-increasing complexity and capacity challenges, more and more organizations are moving towards colocation solutions rather than investing in an in-house data center- although the biggest challenge for many organizations has become “Which partner do I choose?” and most importantly “Where are their data centers located?”

The location should be the primary factor

When choosing a colocation partner, the location of their data centers is usually the primary factor that will influence your decision. A good choice of location means optimized infrastructure, better connectivity, and improved business continuity. On the flip side, a poor location can result in unstable connections and efficiency problems.

A colocation data center should be in an area that is seismically rated for protection against earthquakes and should be as safe as possible from any man-made disasters. So even if an incident occurs in your organization’s offices your critical infrastructure remains unaffected and operational.

Customers can add additional storage, compute, and networking resources with just a click of a button, and it will be up and running in 15 mins rather than the months typically required for traditional infrastructure design, procurement, installation, and turn-up.

Should location be the only factor while selecting a colocation partner?

The answer, in short, is no. When choosing a colocation data center provider, organizations should consider many other factors, including connectivity, reputation, support, services, and cost. But it is certainly true that location is one of the most important factors among all others, it is because the location has an impact on many of the other factors which are crucial to data center success.

Visit www.unitedlayer.com/colocation to learn why 200 Paul Avenue San Francisco data center is the leading data center in the Bay Area.

A Colocation service with cloud-like scalability

A Colocation service with cloud-like scalability

A Colocation service with cloud-like scalability

A Colocation service with cloud-like scalability

By: Chad M. Cunningham

Organizations with colocation or in-house data centers always face the challenge of infrastructure scalability to meet the increased demand. Unlike cloud computing where you can increase or decrease your infrastructure resources to match the business demand with a pay-as-you-go model, in a colocation or on-prem environment you are looking at huge capital investment in the form of hardware and additional real estate to expand your existing facility’s footprint.

Also, you must wait for months for the additional capacity to be up & running. This will offset new revenue and your business’s ability to react quickly to the ever-changing market dynamics.

A Colocation Solution with cloud-like scalability

UnitedLayer’s® colocation solution comes with on-demand scalability where customers can burst into our secure private cloud for additional computing power during peak loads.

Customers can add additional storage, compute, and networking resources with just a click of a button, and it will be up and running in 15 minutes rather than the months typically required for traditional infrastructure design, procurement, installation, and turn-up.

Drive 60% reduction in Colocation and hardware cost

The on-demand scalability eliminates the need for organizations to over-purchase capacity for peak-loads and by doing so you can save up to 60% in colocation and hardware costs.

UnitedLayer’s® on-demand scalability solution is the answer for any organization that wants to take advantage of on-demand deployment, consumption, and speed time to market – but still, retain control over their infrastructure.

To learn how UnitedLayer’s® Colocation solution can help you reduce your data center cost while improving performance and reliability.

On Heels of a Profitable Q1, UnitedLayer®, Inc. Announces Three Key Additions to Management Team

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On Heels of a Profitable Q1, UnitedLayer®, Inc. Announces Three Key Additions to Management Team

UnitedLayer®, Inc. (https://unitedlayer.com) a privately held Colocation and Managed Infrastructure Services firm, today announced the addition of three new executives to its management team, on the heels of a highly profitable Q1 2009.

Albert Ahdoot, with more than 12 years managerial and consulting experience in the information technology industry, has been named director of business development for UnitedLayer®. In this capacity, Ahdoot will lead all sales efforts in both online and offline market segments. Prior to joining UnitedLayer®, Albert served as vice president of sales and marketing for Colocation America, where he helped secure a favorable acquisition through robust sales growth. Ahdoot received his bachelor’s of arts degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his master’s degree in Bio-Technology from New York University.

“Albert is an enormous asset to the UnitedLayer® team. His experience, knowledge and foresight of the web hosting and managed infrastructure spaces enable our management team to make better-informed and well-reasoned decisions,” said Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer®.

Armin Khalili, brother of CEO Arman Khalili, has been named director of sales and business development. Armin has more than 20 years experience as a manager, and has held a variety of senior positions in sales, business development, and marketing. He has served in Fortune 500 companies, including Samsung, ARM, General Electric and Altera.

“Armin is a Silicon Valley veteran and brings to the table seasoned business relationships and invaluable experience. After seven years of courtship, I have finally persuaded my brother to join our team,” said Arman.

Tom Washington, with more than six years experience working with ISPs and datacenters, has been named director of managed services and product development. Washington’s career highlights include managing, scaling, and implementing complex managed hosting solutions — from one to over one hundred node deployments. His specialties include both Windows and Linux hosting as well as service development.

“Tom’s background in sales, data center technology, and service development makes him an ideal executive to join our management team. Our company is built atop service and innovation, and these themes are emblematic of Tom’s entire career,” said Arman.

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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