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Tech Brief: Cloud Computing Interview with John Pozadzides, VP of Product Development, Layered Technologies 1. As an introduction, could you elaborate on Layered Tech’s Cloud Computing Solution? Layered Technologies is a global leader in the area of cloud John Pozadzides computing. We currently have well over 1,000 nodes (physical VP of Product Development Layered Technologies machines) in our Grid Layer computing platform, making us larger than almost all of our competitors combined. The best way to explain the Cloud computing concept is to compare and contrast it with existing technology, so if you’ll indulge me I’m going to back up a bit and start with traditional architecture. Historically, the only option available to businesses with large mission-critical applications was to distribute them across a number of dedicated servers intermixed with firewalls, switches and load balancers. These enterprise-grade solutions have a high degree of complexity, require a staff of system administrators and engineers to provision, and are extremely expensive to deploy with 100% redundancy. Layered Technologies cloud computing offering, The Grid Layer, solves all of these problems by providing users with a powerful graphical configuration interface which lets them create entire virtual infrastructures within the Grid, comprised of a wide range of devices including firewalls, load balancers and servers. Switching, routing and monitoring are all built into the Grid as well as complete physical redundancy and RAID 1 network duplication of data across physical nodes. We believe that cloud computing servic