Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - November 5, 2007 - Self-managed, dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., and 3Tera, are offering free utility computing solutions, to assist California wildfire affected businesses.

Free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Private Datacenters (VPDs) will be offered to businesses affected by the California wildfires.

Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President, Sales and Product Management, 3Tera noted, ''The recent wildfires have displaced hundreds of thousands in Southern California. To assist affected businesses, we're offering free virtual private datacenters in conjunction with our partner, Layered Technologies. The VPDs allow business to move applications online so they can remain productive.''

Todd Abrams, President and COO of Layered Technologies added, ''Layered Technologies is proud to team with 3Tera to offer assistance during this unprecedented tragedy. The people of California are in our thoughts, and we are glad to be in a position to extend our support to those who have experienced disruptions.''

This offer is available to any California business, whose IT or web presence has been affected due to the wildfire disaster. Virtual private servers and Virtual Private Datacenters are offered for free for 90 days. All setup charges and support fees for the period are also waived.

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. It is hoped that by partnering with Layered Technologies, companies will be able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training, and floor space.

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and web services. Layered Technologies' scalable infrastructure powers millions of websites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (''SaaS''), content distribution and more. Its clients range from Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises to some of the world's largest consultancy and integration firms.

3Tera, Inc. provides grid and utility computing, simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers can now get new online services quickly to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

To learn more about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

For more information and support, please visit: www.3tera.com/utility-computing-disaster-recovery.html.

To learn more about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.