3Tera Web Hosting Application Firm, Awarded as Best SaaS Provider

Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - February 15, 2008 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., has been named a 2007 Best SaaS Provider, by HostReview, selected for its impact on enabling utility computing solutions for the hosting industry.

Featured on the HostReview web site's 2007 Top 10 Web Host Awards, Best SaaS Provider list, each award category lists companies who have distinguished themselves during the past year and have laid the foundations for continued quality service and innovation in 2008. The Top 10 Web Host Awards honor leading companies in eight different categories.To create their Best of the Year awards, HostReview editors reviewed the achievements of companies during the last year, including their contribution to the hosting industry and the performance of each company in their related category.

Darren Tabor, CEO of DevStart, network owner of HostReview noted, ''We chose 3Tera as one of our 2007 Best SaaS Providers because its SaaS solution had a tremendous impact on the entire hosting industry. The breakthrough AppLogic grid operating system allows hosting providers to offer true utility computing that enables anyone with a browser and basic IT skills to operate dozens of servers - and hundreds of online applications - without owning and operating hardware infrastructure.''

It is for the first time that HostReview is including the Best SaaS Provider category to its Top 10 Web Host Awards. 3Tera received the prestigious honor of being named No. 4 Best SaaS Provider for their AppLogic grid operating system, which enables new market opportunities for hosting companies to offer grid computing and virtual private data center solutions. For the full HostReviewTop 10 Web Host Awards list, please see www.hostreview.com/top10year.html.

Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product management, 3Tera, Inc. remarked, ''We are honored to be recognized by HostReview as first-class enabler of SaaS solutions. Partnering with hosting companies and managed service providers has allowed us to deliver true utility computing solutions that enable SaaS providers to quickly deploy and operate their applications on a highly available and scalable utility computing platform.''

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3Tera, Inc. is a grid and utility computing firm for the deployment and scaling of web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers may obtain new online services, to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

For more information about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

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