The global offering allows customers to choose their location and expand or move to different regions as their business demands, without having to change a single line of code in their applications. Applications close to the customer's base provides optimal performance by avoiding latency. Also, the ability to duplicate and migrate applications globally eliminates many cross border regulatory issues and replaces lengthy, costly legal processes with simple drag-and-drop operations that can be completed in minutes.

"On-demand services, offered from a single data centre, lack many of the benefits of cloud computing", stated Barry X. Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera. "The cloud should be in multiple data centres in order to provide real high availability, redundancy and disaster recovery for users' applications. Furthermore, when those data centres are dispersed globally, applications can be moved to different geographical locations if and when needed."

"The nature of our application, a Web 2.0 platform where users from all over the world are uploading GPS data and photos to share with others, will greatly benefit from a global cloud solution", stated Joost Schreve, founder and CEO, EveryTrail Inc. "With users and trips from over 160 countries, we find it extremely beneficial to be able to run in multiple locations without having to deal with infrastructure and hardware configurations. AppLogic technology and 3Tera's business model of working with leading data centre operators has given us the ability to access world-class computing infrastructure. It really removed barriers for our company."

The AppLogic Grid operating system is the first commercial platform designed specifically to enable true utility computing. The system converts commodity servers into scalable Grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code. At the heart of the system is 3Tera's disposable infrastructure technology that packages applications with the definition of the infrastructure required to run them into self-contained and portable entities, able to run on any grid anywhere in the world. As a result, applications become completely separated from the hardware infrastructure traditionally needed to run them, allowing users to remotely manage their applications through a Web browser and provision resources as needed.