SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 7, 2002 – UnitedLayer, LLC. (UL-LLC), a leading San Francisco Bay Area Internet Infrastructure company, announced today the expansion of their operations to Los Angeles with the addition of facilities at One Wilshire. The OC3 connection between both facilities will ensure an increased level of service for customers and partners.

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About UnitedLayer

UnitedLayer, LLC. is a leading IP Services company in California. UL provides IP services to Fortune 500 companies and small to medium sized companies in the San Francisco and Los Angeles Areas. UL’s network includes 7 data centers within California and expansion plans include East Coast and international facilities. For more information about UnitedLayer’s products and services, please visit https://www.unitedlayer.com

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SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2010 — Leading Colocation Data Center Company and Managed Hosting Provider, UnitedLayer, Named on San Francisco Business Times’ 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List for Third Consecutive Year. UnitedLayer’s Exceptional Internet Hosting and Customer Service Infrastructure Enabled Strong, Continued Revenue Growth to Achieve #43 Ranking on Top 100 List for 2010

“We are extremely honored to have received this distinguished award for the past three years, which clearly demonstrates our commitment to deliver exceptional colocation and managed hosting services while providing our signature, high-touch 24/7/365 customer service,” said Abhijit Phanse, CEO of UnitedLayer. “2011 will be another exciting year as we expand our facilities and geographical footprint, and introduce our new cloud virtualization and GPU-accelerated high-performance computing platforms, enabling UnitedLayer to evolve as a complete, one-stop-shop for our customers’ IT infrastructure needs.”

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists.

About Bizjournal’s San Francisco Business Times

Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. The national bizjournals site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from American City’s print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and a full menu of tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses more successfully. Characterized among the “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine, Bizjournals’ sites have more than 8 million unique monthly visitors.

SAN FRANCISCO AND PALO ALTO, CA — December 3rd, 2010 — Managing Partner and Technology Executive, Abhijit Phanse, Brings over Eighteen Years of Solid Growth and Management Experience to Enable Successful Expansion.
UnitedLayer, LLC, the premier colocation data center company and managed hosting provider in California, today announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, Abhijit Phanse, following the acquisition of the company by Accelon Capital, a private equity firm with a focus on growth-stage companies.

“UnitedLayer has built a solid Internet hosting and customer service infrastructure and has gained a reputation of delivering exceptional colocation and managed hosting services. We are excited to invest in the UnitedLayer platform to enable our customers to meet their IT infrastructure needs and support their growth”, said Abhijit Phanse, Managing Partner at Accelon Capital and CEO of UnitedLayer. “I am immensely pleased to be joining the talented team at UnitedLayer and I look forward to leading the company through our next phase of growth in this exciting space.”

“Accelon and its team’s significant experience will enable us continue to be the fastest growing and highest quality data center company in San Francisco and Los Angeles,” said Otto Grajeda, Director of Facilities and original Co-Founder. “The change in leadership comes at exactly the right time for us. Without missing a beat, UnitedLayer will be able to more quickly achieve its planned upgrades while maintaining the best quality of service and customer experience.”

UnitedLayer designed a network solution specifically for Permuto’s requirements of constant real time low latency data from multiple sources across the Internet. With headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area, UnitedLayer’s main data center is recognized as one of the world’s most significant Internet facilities and peering locations and has a track record of high quality service. Permuto, based in Palo Alto, can continue its significant growth with reliable hosting provided by UnitedLayer.

About Abhijit Phanse

Mr. Phanse is the Managing Partner of Accelon Capital. He has over 18 years of experience in delivering leading edge networking and data center infrastructure technologies to the market. Previously, Mr. Phanse was the CEO and Co-Founder of Scintera, a Silicon Valley technology company, which provides high-speed signal processors for solving networking infrastructure bottlenecks. Prior to founding Scintera, he held senior management positions at National Semiconductor where he developed many core Ethernet technologies. Mr. Phanse has an MS in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

About Accelon Capital

Accelon Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in small to mid-market growth stage companies providing products and/or services in the Information Technology infrastructure, Software, and Healthcare sectors. Accelon provides a combination of a flexible financing structure and operating experience to create win-win relationships with entrepreneurs and owners who are looking for liquidity or growth capital for expanding their business. For more information about Accelon Capital, please visit www.acceloncapital.com.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRESS RELEASE) June 8, 2010 — UnitedLayer, LLC, a privately held managed colocation services firm, announced today that it has been selected by Permuto (http://www.permuto.com), a leader in online performance advertising, to be its primary managed hosting partner. UnitedLayer provides colocation and data center infrastructure services to businesses across the globe.

“Because of the real-time nature of Permuto’s e-commerce advertising solutions, UnitedLayer’s ability to provide 100% uptime and fast, secure data transmissions made UnitedLayer the right choice for Permuto,” says Shaukat Shamim, CEO of Permuto. “With reliable colocation and managed hosting from UnitedLayer, we can concentrate on what we do best – relevant advertising for the most active buyers.”

“Permuto pushes the limits of what a growing and innovative company expects from their hosting and IT services partner,” says Edward Buck, Director of Operations at UnitedLayer. “We are honored to be working with Permuto in solving the challenges of providing real-time online advertising to the marketplace by implementing a hosting solution designed to meet and exceed Permuto’s growth.”

UnitedLayer designed a network solution specifically for Permuto’s requirements of constant real time low latency data from multiple sources across the Internet. With headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area, UnitedLayer’s main data center is recognized as one of the world’s most significant Internet facilities and peering locations and has a track record of high quality service. Permuto, based in Palo Alto, can continue its significant growth with reliable hosting provided by UnitedLayer.

“Permuto’s Buyer Acquisition Channel brings search-like performance and return on ad spend to display advertising. The knowledge gained from every action a buyer makes online drives more relevant advertising through our channel, so the right hosting solution is critical to helping us deliver results to our clients,” says Shamim. “Since even a short period of downtime negatively affects Permuto’s desired outcome, UnitedLayer’s constant uptime and dedication to customer satisfaction make UnitedLayer a strong hosting and managed solutions partner for us.”

Companies that require a hosting solutions partner that can provide high quality, reliable colocation and managed hosting services hosting services, are encouraged to visit www.unitedlayer.com to learn how UnitedLayer can provide a customized hosting solution backed by a 100% uptime guarantee.

About Permuto

Permuto is the creator of the Buyer Acquisition Channel for e-commerce, which delivers search-like performance and automation to display advertising. Through its BuyerIndex, Permuto develops knowledge of a buyer’s intent, activity and history for millions of individual products. An automated Buyer Marketplace connects merchants and shopping sites with active buyers and delivers highly-personalized, relevant, and attractive offers. The result is a channel that taps into the more than 80 percent reach of online display advertising with greatly enhanced conversions.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Permuto was founded in April 2008 by pioneers in display and search advertising and was selected as one of “The World’s Most Intriguing Startups” by BusinessWeek.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 26, 2009 — The San Francisco Business Times announces UnitedLayer, LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, as one of the top 25 fastest growing private companies in 2009.

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists. All companies had to have been headquartered in the Bay Area, privately held between 2006 and 2008, and must have had revenues of more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2006. Fast 100 and Fast 50 Companies were ranked on percentage of revenue growth from 2006 to 2008.

“We are thrilled and honored to be part of the fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area and would like to thank all of our customers” said Arman Khalili, founder and CEO, UnitedLayer. The founder states with a smile, “I am lucky to have hired coworkers who are smarter than I am.” It is apparent that Mr. Khalili is proud of his staff; however he goes on to state that, “While, the UnitedLayer team is crucial to the momentum of our business, our customers come first. End of story.”

This year’s recognition follows the 2008 Top 100 list where UnitedLayer was named 82nd fastest growing Bay Area Company. “At UnitedLayer, we attribute our growth to our most important assets namely our clients and our co-workers” said Albert Ahdoot, Director of Business Development and Marketing. Mr. Ahdoot further acknowledges that “UnitedLayer’s success can be traced from the result of Class A services, coupled with its superior 24/7 customer support”

About Bizjournal’s San Francisco Business Times

Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. The national bizjournals site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from American City’s print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and a full menu of tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses more successfully. Characterized among the “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine, bizjournals’ sites have more than 8 million unique monthly visitors.

About UnitedLayer, LLC.

UnitedLayer, LLC. is a premier North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation, dedicated and managed servers in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America.

UnitedLayer is about Power, Cooling, Packets and People.

For additional information, please visit UnitedLayer at https://www.unitedlayer.com.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 19, 2009 — UnitedLayer LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, announced today that ISC has selected UnitedLayer as its colocation partner by signing a multi-year contract.

UnitedLayer will provide colocation, cross connect and IP services for ISC at its flagship data center facility in San Francisco. Colocation services include physical data center floor space for cabinets, power and cooling. UnitedLayer’s San Francisco data centers boast fully-redundant N+1 environmental control and 2N power systems.

“The customer service provided at the 200 Paul location in San Francisco has exceeded expectations. We are happy to continue our business relationship with UnitedLayer” said Paul Vixie ISC president.

UnitedLayer, founded in 2001, is a North American internet enabler offering a suite of colocation, Internet and managed infrastructure services.

About ISC

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation widely known for world-class Internet software engineering and network operations. ISC produces only open-source software, of which BIND and ISC DHCP are the two best-known examples. Our emphasis is on Internet core technology. Our widely-imitated Managed Open Source process ensures the quality of this software while keeping it completely open and available. ISC operates high-reliability global networks of DNS root servers (F-root) and authoritative DNS servers (SNS@ISC) both for non-profit and for commercial enterprises. ISC is also very involved in ongoing Internet protocol and standards development, particularly in the areas of DNSSEC and IPv6. ISC is supported by donations from generous sponsors, by program membership fees, and by specific fees for services. For program or donation information, please visit our website at http://www.isc.org.

About UnitedLayer, LLC.

UnitedLayer, LLC. is a premier North American Colocation and Internet infrastructure services firm. It offers IP transit, colocation, dedicated and managed servers in multiple datacenters strategically located throughout North America.

UnitedLayer is about Power, Cooling, Packets and People.