The new functionality is available immediately both as a service in the cloud and as private clouds in enterprise data centres. For the first time, a cloud computing platform enables virtual data centres that exceed the capabilities of traditional data centres in commercial enterprise environments.

Adding Windows to AppLogic's existing support of Linux, Sun's Open Solaris and Solaris 10 follows 3Tera's Cloudware architecture for open cloud computing, announced earlier this year. Users of AppLogic can now utilize the most popular data centre operating systems in their applications, and even mix and match operating systems within applications as needed. This advance opens cloud computing to the ever growing number of users seeking IT scalability and flexibility beyond what is possible today in traditional data centre environments.

"Windows support is an important requirement for an open cloud computing environment robust enough to take on any Web or enterprise application", stated Bert Armijo, senior vice president of sales and marketing, 3Tera Inc. "Solutions like .NET, IIS, SQL Server and Exchange have made Windows a critical part of IT infrastructure."

"3Tera's announcement is ground-breaking news from both technology and business perspectives", stated Todd Abrams, President and COO, Layered Tech. "Enterprise data centres today are heterogeneous, and now AppLogic allows customers to use their preferred operating systems when running their applications in the cloud. As a hosting provider, having a unified cloud platform simplifies our operations and opens new markets."

Today, AppLogic delivers world-class, highly scalable infrastructure to small companies and major enterprises alike. As the AppLogic user base has grown beyond Linux, support for Windows has been the most requested enhancement.

"As a service provider we are extremely pleased with the flexibility and operational efficiencies we have enjoyed with AppLogic", shared Dante Orsini, Managing partner, CorePLUS Inc., a turnkey on-demand service for enterprise class collaboration and productivity solutions. "While businesses continue to search for new ways to cut costs, we are seeing a tremendous demand to outsource the management of Microsoft environments. It is extremely exciting to work with 3Tera and be able to deliver both Windows and open source applications as a managed service over one instantly scalable platform."

"Inovaware evaluated a number of service providers to find a cloud computing platform that could support our billing and customer management SaaS business", stated Bruce Kim, CTO, Inovaware Corporation, a recognized leader in on-line billing and customer care solutions with over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. "3Tera's AppLogic platform gives us the flexibility we need and the availability of Windows is a significant factor for our business."

3Tera is currently the only company offering cloud computing solutions on a global scale by partnering with data centres on four continents. As the only provider that enables others to build clouds and offer cloud computing solutions, 3Tera ultimately allows customers to choose their locations and expand or move to a different location as the business demand requires, without having to change a single line of code in their on-line applications.