UnitedLayer® has announced completion of a new fiber backbone project to enhance its Disaster Recovery, VMware Private Cloud and Hybrid product offerings.

San Francisco, California (PRWEB) December 05, 2012

UnitedLayer®, a leading provider of managed hosting, private cloud, disaster recovery and colocation services, is proud to announce the completion of a new project to install a fiber backbone between its data centers.

The installation of this backbone will significantly increase UnitedLayer’s® fiber capacity, allowing the hosting company to serve even more businesses. This new fiber cable will also allow UnitedLayer® customers to enjoy reduced latency and higher performance.

Using this fiber backbone, UnitedLayer® has greatly augmented the existing fiber capacity. UnitedLayer’s® customers can now enjoy access to the various services and deploy hybrid architectures without sacrificing performance.

“In a testament to UnitedLayer’s® dedication to quality, the system was rigorously tested, ensuring our customers will have a quality and defect-free transport pathway,” said Dell Stortroen, Chief of Engineering at UnitedLayer®.

“We’re excited to increase our ability to take on new customers and offer our current customers reduced latency and increased fiber capacity. This will allow us to better serve their IT needs, using our rich product mix of colocation, managed hosting, VMware vClouds, Big Data solutions and DR” said Abhijit Phanse, UnitedLayer® CEO.

Innovative Disaster Recovery Solution at an Affordable Price
UnitedLayer® specializes in customizable IT solutions; its latest innovation has been to architect an enterprise-grade SAN replication solution using open storage to reliably achieve customer Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) at a lower cost per GB. UnitedLayer® has a highly consultative approach to Business Continuity Planning, including detailed processes to help clients identify and hit their RTOs and RPOs.

“Disaster recovery means something different to every company; therefore, the conversation about a client’s needs must be very consultative, and the solution is usually highly customized. UnitedLayer® has developed a sophisticated process to help our clients think through their needs and identify the most reliable and cost effective solutions. We have a high performance nationwide network and datacenters across multiple geographies, which enable us to deliver enterprise-grade business continuity solutions across North America.” – Mukund Chavan, VP of Software Engineering, UnitedLayer®.

High Performance Private Cloud at a Great Value
UnitedLayer® is taking its Private Cloud offering to the next level with a new, highly scalable, super-node architecture optimized for application specific performance delivering security, compliance, and on-demand provisioning at a very attractive price. UnitedLayer® has the expertise to migrate complex enterprise IT infrastructure to an enterprise-grade Private Cloud hosted in one of its top tier datacenters offering expandable compute capacity, high availability and better scaling economics.

About UnitedLayer®

UnitedLayer®, LLC is a premier SSAE-16 Type II certified company that offers colocation, managed hosting, cloud computing, and business continuity solutions. UnitedLayer® offers world-class datacenter facilities with extreme connectivity, coupled with technical expertise and thought leadership to solve complex IT problems. UnitedLayer® has over 40,000 square feet of fully redundant conditioned datacenter space at 200 Paul in San Francisco, one of the most networked Internet points of presence in the world.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—August 26, 2013—UnitedLayer®, a leading Managed Cloud provider, today unveiled UnitedCloud, its VMware-based secure public cloud for enterprises and SMBs. UnitedCloud enables customers to burst into the cloud on-demand with secure, high performance, Flash-accelerated, cloud servers that integrate seamlessly with existing VMware deployments in an enterprise-connected hybrid configuration using UnitedConnect®.

UnitedCloud comes with a full-service on-line Virtual Data Center Configurator to enable customers to configure their compute, storage, and application requirements with an on-line ordering process for instant turn-up. Customers can burst into UnitedCloud on-demand with no contracts, setup fees, or monthly commitments. UnitedCloud is hosted in UnitedLayer’s® Tier3 datacenters and is fully managed and backed by its high-touch 24/7/365 customer support.

UnitedCloud has built-in security protection with features like Denial-of-Service (DoS) monitoring and mitigation, 2-factor authentication, hardened operating systems, and much more. This service offers UnitedLayer® customers the peace of mind that experienced security experts and best-of-breed technologies are protecting their deployments at all times.

UnitedCloud comes with enterprise-class disaster recovery solutions to meet the customers’ Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Cloud servers are backed up daily and are available for instant restoration. In addition, with the VMware Site Recovery Manager, a live cloud server can be replicated to a geographically diverse UnitedLayer® Tier3 datacenter. This service offers UnitedLayer’s® customers the assurance that they have a fully functional business continuity plan to protect their business operations.

UnitedConnect®, a secure hybrid platform connector, provides a secure connection for seamless integration of the customer’s on-premise VMware deployment with UnitedCloud. This service offers customers the ability to burst on-demand into UnitedCloud and securely manage their entire VMware footprint – both the internal on-premise deployment and the external off-premise hosted UnitedCloud – within a single vCenter console.

“UnitedLayer® has a long history of serving our customers with world class hosting services, and UnitedCloud continues our strategy of providing best-in-class managed cloud services in our secure enterprise-class hybrid platform. We built UnitedCloud to be high-performance, secure, hybrid-enabled, protected with enterprise-grade disaster recovery, and to be a seamless extension of our customer’s datacenters. We are making it easy for our customers to grow their full-feature enterprise-class IT infrastructure on-demand without any setup fees or contracts, all backed by UnitedLayer’s® high-touch support”, said Abhijit Phanse, CEO at UnitedLayer®.

To learn more about UnitedCloud, please contact: sales@unitedlayer.com.

About UnitedLayer®

UnitedLayer®, a leading Managed Cloud provider, offers secure enterprise-class Cloud, Colocation, and Disaster Recovery services. We have been serving enterprises and SMBs for over 12 years. Our customers include The City and County of San Francisco, Wikipedia, Diamond Foods, The Exploratorium, AT&T, Level3, and Abovenet. UnitedLayer’s® secure managed cloud services are delivered from its world class, SSAE 16-certified, PCI compliant, HIPAA compliant, and fully redundant Tier 3 data centers.

Headquartered at 200 Paul in San Francisco, UnitedLayer® is one of the most networked Internet points of presence in the world. We operate a dual-stacked, high-performance, nationwide IPv4/IPv6 network backbone, and all of our services are backed by high-touch, fully-managed, 24/7/365 support.

UnitedLayer® currently operates five data centers in North America – in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Ashburn, and Toronto, with numerous additional networking POPs.

Company information is available at www.unitedlayer.com.

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UnitedLayer®, the hybrid hosting experts and a leading provider of cloud, disaster recovery and colocation services, today announced it has opened a new datacenter in Vancouver, Canada to strengthen its position as a one-stop provider of hybrid cloud hosting services for enterprises, government agencies, media and other organizations with hybrid hosting needs.

With a new website (www.unitedlayer.com) to highlight its capabilities, UnitedLayer® will offer integrated hybrid cloud hosting from traditional colocation to private and public clouds, and disaster recovery for business continuity. UnitedLayer® believes business agility is critical for survival. As an organization’s IT and hybrid cloud management needs evolve, UnitedLayer® will provide the technologies and capabilities that allow organizations to plan for today and grow into tomorrow.

According to IDG Research Services, more than 50 percent of the organizations polled are already using or planning to move to a hybrid cloud.

“UnitedLayer® brings expertise in networking, storage and security as well 24/7 support, data center expertise and knowledge of High Availability systems,” said Sherif Agib, VP of Operations of Granicus. “As a global leader in Cloud solutions for Government, our customers count on Granicus for the world’s largest and most reliable legislative content network. With presence in multiple UnitedLayer® data centers, including Vancouver, Canada, we rely on UnitedLayer® as the primary hosting provider for serving up all of our Canadian Customers through a highly connected network.”

Hybrid cloud management breaks down the barriers between “old fashioned” legacy IT (such as colocation and on-premise servers) and the cloud model of today in order to support a comprehensive IT infrastructure that can talk as “one.” One network, shared IP address, one set of load balancer and firewalls and one SLA: one partner who can offer endless capabilities.

“UnitedLayer’s® hybrid approach allows a business to take advantage of the scalability and cost-effectiveness that cloud computing offers without having to jettison its legacy infrastructure – whether it be on-premise VMware cloud or even colocation,” said Abhijit Phanse, CEO of UnitedLayer®. “UnitedLayer® provides our customers with a true hybrid cloud and a vision for a long term partnership, allowing them to plan for its IT infrastructure needs for today, yet helping them grow as their business evolves over time.”

About UnitedLayer®

UnitedLayer®, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is the Hybrid Hosting Expert, providing secure enterprise-grade Cloud, Disaster Recovery, and Colocation solutions. UnitedLayer® brings over 13 years of expertise, technology and knowledge in enabling agility to enterprises, SMBs, government agencies and startups through hybrid hosting solutions – providing unified access, management and monitoring of multiple disparate infrastructures. Its customers include The City and County of San Francisco, Wikipedia, Diamond Foods, The Exploratorium, AT&T, Level3, and NEC. For more information visit www.unitedlayer.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2014 To gear up for the annual VMworld 2014 conference Aug. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, UnitedLayer®, a leading provider of hybrid cloud, disaster recovery and colocation services, will launch its “Excited for Hybrid: Get Three for Free” promotion. The limited time promo offers VMware customers a free 30-day test drive of two UnitedLayer® VMware Cloud Servers and a vCenter Portal, and three free add-on services. Enter the promo code “vmworld2014” to receive the promotion.

The promotion allows VMware customers to integrate existing VMware deployments to a secure, enterprise-connected hybrid configuration using UnitedLayer’s® UnitedConnect® platform. VMware customers can extend their current datacenter to the cloud with ease and securely manage their entire VMware footprint within a single vCenter console. That VMware footprint includes both the on-premise VMware Cloud deployment and the external off-premise hosted UnitedLayer® VMware Private Cloud.

In addition, UnitedLayer® will provide VMworld 2014 attendees an extra incentive following the free 30-day trial, customers will receive their first month’s hosting fees completely waived. If customers sign up with UnitedLayer® during the promo period and wish to extend their on-premise VMWare implementation, they will also receive: free private cloud set-up; free cloud for disaster recovery; and free migration services (up to 20 hours). The offer is valid only until September 30, 2014.

In conjunction with the leading virtualization and cloud computing event of the year, UnitedLayer® customers will be able to leverage the hybrid cloud with the company’s offering in order to establish a single unified connection.

“We were looking for a solution that addresses our mission critical web publishing server environment that had several key features a VMware vCloud, a load balancer and firewall in High Availability configuration and a hybrid architecture to connect to our existing colocation network. UnitedLayer® was able to work with us to deliver this deployment in a timely manner,” said Rob Rothfarb, Project Director at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.

“Enterprises can easily extend their workloads into the cloud with VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service as the backbone,” said Abhijit Phanse, CEO of UnitedLayer®. “VMware is the market leader for cloud virtualization. We are confident that our customers will love the performance, technology and ease of our VMWare cloud hosting platform that once the test drive is over your organization will be ready to deploy.”

Enterprises can use the vCloud Hybrid Service for: Disaster Recovery; New Enterprise; Packaged Applications; Next Generation Applications as well as Dev/Test. UnitedLayer® simplifies the task of extending a data center to the cloud and support new and existing applications without making changes.

To sign-up or obtain more details about the 30-day free trial visit https://unitedlayer.com/offers/vmware/vmware.html and enter the promocode: “vmworld2014” into the promo code boxor contact UnitedLayer® (info@unitedlayer.com, 1.866.395.5346).

About UnitedLayer®

UnitedLayer®, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is the Hybrid Hosting Expert, providing secure enterprise-grade Cloud, Disaster Recovery, and Colocation solutions. UnitedLayer® brings over 13 years of expertise, technology and knowledge in enabling agility to enterprises, SMBs, government agencies and startups through hybrid hosting solutions – providing unified access, management and monitoring of multiple disparate infrastructures. Its customers include The City and County of San Francisco, Wikipedia, Diamond Foods, The Exploratorium, AT&T, Level3, and NEC. For more information visit www.unitedlayer.com.

Media Contact 😕 marketing@unitedlayer.com

Recently, Inc. 5000 and BizJournal’s “100 Fastest Growing Private Companies” list provided us with some great insight into some of the most successful companies in the Bay Area. Using that data, we were able to create a revealing infographic showing the locations of these Fastest Growing San Francisco Companies. To all of these successful companies, we say, “Congratulations!” and send out a sincere thank-you for continuing to make San Francisco and the Bay Area such a vibrant business community.

Considering the business history of our area, it’s no surprise that so many tech companies – just like UnitedLayer® – have made their home in our area. From the earliest days of Silicon Valley, founders of high tech, cutting-edge companies have gravitated to the Bay Area and with good reason. Effective business leaders understand that your company is only as successful as the people who work there, and it takes more than a lucrative job to make employees happy. Contentment comes when all aspects of life are in balance, and that’s exactly what the Bay Area offers. We feel lucky to be able to live and work in the bay area and proud to be a part of that community, so we thought we would pause to examine just a few of the reasons why San Francisco and the surrounding areas are such a great place to live and work.

Why We Love Living & Working in the Bay Area

The Weather

Our cool summers, mild winters and overall temperate climate make it easy to enjoy all kinds of outdoor activities all year long. Whether it’s bicycling, taking long walks in our historic neighborhoods or trying your hand at sailing on the bay, our mild climate makes it easy to enjoy an active lifestyle no matter what the time of year.

The Culture

Whatever you may enjoy – art, theater, live music, literary events, etc. – San Francisco has a well-earned reputation for enjoying a rich cultural scene.

The Food

Most people have heard of our world-class restaurants. But what many people don’t realize is that the quality of the food available here is among the highest you’ll find in any metropolitan area. Fresh seafood is abundant, of course, but so is a variety of organically grown fruits and vegetables – all of which is available in countless farmers’ markets and food co-ops throughout the Bay Area.

The Outdoor Lifestyle

Not only does the Bay Area offer a great climate, it also offers a myriad of outdoor areas in which to enjoy it. Numerous public parks within the cities, as well as beaches and state parks just a short drive away, make it possible to enjoy nature anytime.

The City Itself

By anyone’s standards, San Francisco is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the entire U.S. And the communities that thrive within the City are close-knit and social, making them ideal places in which to live and raise a family.

San Francisco: the Best City in America

All in all, it’s really no surprise that San Francisco was named the best city in America in 2012 by Bloomberg Businessweek. Just as it’s no surprise that the Bay Area continues to be so attractive to thriving, high tech industries, which is exactly why we’re so proud to be an integral part of this healthy business community. Congratulations again to the movers and shakers on our list of fastest-growing companies. And remember that we’re here to serve you and your company’s Web hosting needs.

Contact us today and discover the advantages of choosing UnitedLayer® as your fully-managed comprehensive Bay Area cloud and hosting company.

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From the Golden Gate Bridge to Silicon Valley, the Napa vineyards, and UC Berkeley, the Bay Area has no shortage of world-renowned locales. We boast technological innovation, a progressive arts scene, and unbeatable natural beauty (Half Moon Bay anyone?). But those of us actually living in the Bay Area–whether in San Francisco or the Valley–know our region is even more exceptional, diverse, and stimulating than the world believes. We get to experience and enjoy the lesser-known eccentricities of the people, culture, weather, and scenery every day.

We want to celebrate life in Northern California’s mecca, from San Jose to San Rafael. Here are 10 things only people living in the bay area will understand and appreciate:

1. Rain can bring everything to a halt.

Sure, the weather here is generally perfect for an outdoor lifestyle. It’s always 10 degrees warmer in the Valley without San Francisco’s ocean fog, but we all enjoy a comparatively moderate climate year round (unless it’s a dreaded El Nino year). When rain strikes, cars slow to a crawl, school kids stay home, and everyone has a strong reaction, whether they’re cheering or crying.

2. We’re all unofficial sommeliers.
The Bay Area is a top destination for wine snobs. Sommeliers from all over compete for jobs here, and we’ll shell out for their recommendations. With local wine tastings, classes, and tours at every turn, it’s hard to live here without picking up some serious wine knowledge. You ask for a well-rounded chardonnay with an elegant bouquet and complex finish to pair with your Halibut without batting an eye.

3. Speaking of wine, we bring our finest bottle of Everett Ridge Cabernet to the free outdoor movie night in Dolores Park.

4. Eccentricity is the new normal.
From Tim Draper to Haight-Ashbury to Castro kids, the Bay Area has long been a home for radicals and visionaries. We dress up for the annual Bay to Breakers run, fight to honor Emperor Norton, remember the Shoe Garden, host a bunch of Furries, and laugh knowingly at HBO’s Silicon Valley comedy.

5. We don’t “unplug.”
People living in the Bay Area know how to enjoy our near limitless access to mountains, forest, ocean, and even desert without disconnecting. It doesn’t mean we’re tweeting or answering emails every second, but we stay wired, swapping smartphones for Google glass or some rugged wearable tech as needed.

6. Only an hour wait for brunch? Is there something wrong with this place?
Brunch in the city is the best meal of the week, and people flock to their favorite brunch spots like religious devotees. Waiting up to two hours to order your organic pasture-raised eggs benedict is a totally normal experience. So normal, in fact, that if you get in without a wait you’ll be worried that the restaurant has gone down hill.

7. You’d sooner lose your ID than your Clipper card.
Your Bay Area Transit smart card is your indispensable key to the region. The reloadable transit fare card makes your daily commute a breeze, and lets you hop on and off AC Transit, BART, Muni, CalTrain, Golden Gate Transit and more. You’d be lost and immobilized without it.

8. There’s a parade or festival every weekend day of the week.
Seriously. Take your pick of free music, cultural street festival, or over-the-top parade almost any day of the week. You don’t even need to plan your outing, just head toward the nearest park, main street, or bridge and join the happy crowd.

9. You can eat cuisine from any and every part of the world.
It goes way beyond Mission burritos and Chinatown noodles. Take your pick from fine Italian cuisine at Perbacco, upscale French fare at The French Laundry, tons of killer Vietnamese food in Richmond, coastal Mediterranean joints, and Creole comfort food in Oakland. And if you can’t decide, you swing by SoMa StrEat Food Park for the daily mix of food truck fusion.

10. It’s easy to eat fresh, local, and organic–because it’s everywhere in the Bay Area
Not only are there more farmer’s markets than you can shake a stick at selling California’s bountiful produce, there are more and more services popping up promising to deliver the organic goodness right to your doorstep. Our restaurants use the freshest ingredients, and our kitchens are stocked with seasonal greens, foraged berries, and local cheeses.

We Love Living in the Bay Area
What else makes working and living in the Bay Area so unique and unrivaled? What have we left off the list that just screams Bay Area local? Share your additions to the list in the comments below, or tweet @UnitedLayer using the hashtag #BayAreaLife.