North Plains Chooses Layered Tech to Host TeleScope™ OnDemand Digital Asset Management Solution

Layered Tech's scalable and secure managed hosting services to support North Plains' hosted, SaaS offerings

PLANO, Texas – Sept. 7, 2011 – Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading global provider of compliant hosting, managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services, today announced that North Plains, LLC (North Plains) has chosen Layered Tech's managed services and high-availability dedicated hosting infrastructure to support North Plains' next-generation TeleScope™ OnDemand offering.

TeleScope OnDemand is the world's largest and most successful hosted Digital Asset Management ("DAM") solution available today. North Plains chose Layered Tech for its responsive and knowledgeable team, as well as its ability to provide a custom, highly flexible, and high-performance environment.

North Plains' TeleScope OnDemand solution combines the breadth of a full-featured, enterprise digital asset management platform with the simplicity of a managed service. As both a hosted and SaaS solution, TeleScope OnDemand affords companies and/or individual departments that may not otherwise have the technical resources or budget to implement an installed solution the ability to benefit from the market-leading DAM solution.

"Our strategy is to partner with companies that support North Plains' commitment to service excellence and to continuously improve the TeleScope platform," said Rodney Jones, Vice President of Engineering, North Plains. "Layered Tech's networking and storage expertise as well as its market-leading disaster recovery and data replication capabilities, are an ideal complement to TeleScope and provide our clients with the security and peace of mind they want and need from their hosted/SaaS technology partner."

Numerous small organizations to many of the world's Global 2000 companies have chosen TeleScope OnDemand as their DAM solution of choice to support and optimize their creative and integrated marketing workflows. Leveraging Layered Tech's geographically diverse data center locations, North Plains can support companies locally and globally, wherever their assets, people, and/or partners reside.

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"Layered Tech is proud to provide North Plains with a truly unique solution that quickly scales to meet their expansion needs, while simultaneously enabling its customers to easily manage digital assets on an enterprise-class platform," said Layered Tech President Brad Hokamp. "Our years of experience in managing highly secure and compliant solutions coupled with our global reach will enable North Plains to achieve their business growth goals."

With the increasing demand for integrated marketing management solutions and the exponential growth in rich media content, especially video, high-performance, scalable technology partners are critical for companies of all sizes to cost-effectively achieve their corporate marketing objectives.

TeleScope OnDemand currently supports a wide range of industries and workflows, including High-Tech, Finance, Print & Imaging, Media & Entertainment, Publishing, Life Sciences, Education & Public Sector, Manufacturing, and many more.

Layered Technologies
Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of compliant hosting, managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables clients to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs so they can focus on core business issues. Layered Tech's scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce and software as a service (SaaS). Clients range from large enterprises with advanced data security, compliance and uptime requirements to leading-edge Web 2.0 startups. For more information, visit www.layeredtech.com.

North Plains, LLC
North Plains is the world leader in managing the digital assets and publishing processes that create the vast majority of digital and print communications. By providing software and services that enable companies to shift from content management to digital supply chains and multi-channel publishing processes, North Plains helps companies manage their brand, expand their rich media communications across multiple channels, and deliver higher quality content faster, at lower cost. For more information visit www.northplains.com.