Frisco, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 20, 2007 - Dedicated server products, scalable on-demand, and self-managed utility hosting services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., has unveiled its LayeredNOW Rapid Deploy Servers, developed to initiate in two hours or less.

Todd Abrams, President and COO of Layered Technologies remarked, ''We know that when a client comes to us, they need their servers up and running as soon as possible. LayeredNOW enables us to meet the demands and business needs of our clients within two hours, delivering to them the same affordability, flexibility and reliability that we always deliver - just much faster.''

With clients in over 120 countries, Layered Technologies' custom technology solutions are designed to allow both large and small customers to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of colocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. By partnering with Layered Technologies, companies are able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training, and floor space. Layered Technologies can have a company up and running in days versus months.

LayeredNOW Rapid Deploy Servers offer the best performance for their price point and with predefined configurations, are designed to be deployed quickly. Product specifications include:

• Rapid Deploy servers include deployment guarantee
• Rapid Deploy servers are available with CentOS and Debian
• CentOS packages offer Fantastico/Cpanel for an additional $25 fee.
• Debian does not include a control panel upon sign up but control panel upgrades are available after deployment
• All upgrades available after deployment
• Rapid deploy servers are available Monday-Friday, 8am-10pm CST and are deployed after payment confirmation
• Choose from 10 different hardware configurations

Pricing for LayeredNOW Rapid Deploy Servers start at $65 / month.

Based in Frisco Texas, Layered Technologies, Inc. is one of the five largest global providers of on-demand hosting and utility computing solutions, providing dedicated, partially managed server hosting solutions, primarily for the small and medium-sized enterprise (''SME'') market. The firm provides customers with technology, infrastructure and support services designed to enable them to operate servers at secure Tier III/IV data centers, while saving capital and operating costs typically associated with purchasing and maintaining servers at co-location facilities. Layered Technologies servers and associated network facilities are used by customers to host a variety of Internet-enabled applications, including content and e-commerce web sites, software as a service (''SaaS'') offerings, online multiplayer games, shared web site hosting services, and streaming multimedia content distribution and delivery, among other applications.

To learn more about LayeredNOW rapid deployment, please visit: www.layeredtech.com/dedicated-servers/server-now.php.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.